Session 114

Ghostwish has connected.

Ghostwish::3

Liatai:That was some mighty quick trolling. :B Gonna go bring in some more wood before I start hunting.

Glitch has connected.

Railock has connected.

Liatai:-- Right, knew I forgot something.

Liatai:Treasure. :o

Liatai:... Hahahaha. I'm half tempted to throw this result in. XD

Liatai:Immovable Rod (5000 gp) (Completely different effect curse)

Railock:what?

Railock:<font color="#000000">haha

Ghostwish:<font color="#9933FF">Rod Of Gone to Plaid.

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Rod of Perpetual Motion? :B

<font color="#0000ff">RAM has connected.

</i><font color="#0000ff">VAE has connected.

</i>Liatai:<font color="#000000">This treasure generator both likes you and dislikes dragons. So many expensive dragonscale items.

Liatai:<font color="#000000">I'm tempted to bump up the GP value of this treasure, though. The items paint an interesting picture. :.

<font color="#0000ff">Meany has connected.

</i>RAM:<font color="#990000">:O

RAM:<font color="#990000">YAAAAAY LOOT!

Meany:<font color="#660033">Loot?

Glitch:<font color="#000000">phat lewt.

Meany:<font color="#660033">Elucidate.

Liatai:<font color="#000000">... A silver crown inlaid with silver? &gt;:.

Meany:<font color="#660033">Noonono.

Liatai:<font color="#000000">I forgot loot, so I'm rolling up some. :B

Meany:<font color="#660033">Quicksilver.

Meany:<font color="#660033">Silver crown inlaid with quicksilver.

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Here's a silly one the loot generator spat out at me earlier; Immovable Rod (5000 gp) (Completely different effect curse)

Meany:<font color="#660033">It shoots out a punching glove on a spring.

Railock:<font color="#000000">immovable rod. curses anyone that actvates it with anti gravity until it's turned off

RAM:<font color="#990000">Yes.

VAE:<font color="#000000">Looking at Tathi's token, Miron isn't the only one who took a level in grimdark :3

Glitch:<font color="#000000">Liatai: ... A silver crown inlaid with silver? &gt;:.

Glitch:<font color="#000000">Sounds pretty Dorfy to me. :B

VAE:<font color="#000000">And even more duergar

Liatai:<font color="#000000">... why would you bind a book with ermine? &gt;:.

RAM:<font color="#990000">Because you can? :B

Liatai:<font color="#000000">... And why oh why would you make a scabbardout of leopard fur?! XD

Liatai:<font color="#000000">* scabbard out

VAE:<font color="#000000">Because you're insane?

Meany:<font color="#660033">It's probably just covered in it.

Liatai:<font color="#000000">And have bad fashion sense, apparently.

Railock:<font color="#000000">seriously are you using the dwarf fortress random arficat generator on these? hehe

Miron:<font color="#000000">And all of those attributes fit a duergar

Glitch:<font color="#000000">Lia, are you -sure- you're not using the Dwarf Fortress--what Rail said. x3

Liatai:<font color="#000000">What's something that could be carved on a drinking horn?

VAE:<font color="#000000">Symbol of Hanseath

VAE:<font color="#000000">Could be loot from regular dwarves, see

Meany:<font color="#660033">Runes for health, wealth, and glory.

Ghostwish:<font color="#9933FF">afk for bio

Glitch:<font color="#000000">&quot;This is an artifact Troll Bone Horn. All craftsduergarship is of the highest quality. On the horn is engraved an image of the duergar mayor. The duergar mayor is eating cheese. The enrgaving relates to the dueargar mayor eating the cheesemaker's masterowork cheese in the year 1015.&quot;

Liatai:<font color="#000000">XD!!!

RAM:<font color="#990000">x3

VAE:<font color="#000000">XD!

VAE:<font color="#000000">Tech, that's awesome

Glitch:<font color="#000000">And as anyone who's ever played DF knows, yes, that actually happens. :B http://dwarffortresswiki.org/images/9/9d/DF_Cheese.jpg

Meany:<font color="#660033">Damnit.

Meany:<font color="#660033">Now I'm hungry for cheese.

* Meany decapitates Glitch. Makes headcheese.

Liatai:<font color="#000000">What might some nice scents you can find in the Underdark be? &gt;:.

Meany:<font color="#660033">Mint is always nice.

RAM:<font color="#990000">Underdark?

RAM:<font color="#990000">Death and decay. :B

Meany:<font color="#660033">I will choke you to death.

Meany:<font color="#660033">So help me.

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Nice scents. =3=;

Meany:<font color="#660033">I will.

Miron:<font color="#000000">Ale

Liatai:<font color="#000000">I don't know if ale-scented candles would sell well. XD

Glitch:<font color="#000000">....are you kidding? That would be like, the ultimate Dorf candle! :U

Meany:<font color="#660033">A perfume-type fungus?

Miron:<font color="#000000">Hell no. Ale-scented candles would make everyone thirsty just by smelling them.

Gamal-Junayd:<font color="#000000">dwarves are already thirsty

Gamal-Junayd:<font color="#000000">so it'd be promoted byt he brewing industry

RAM:<font color="#990000">Troof.

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">Just wait until the timeskip.

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">I'll have my cider brew ready to go to market.

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">And I will ruin alcohol for you forever.

Ghostwish:<font color="#9933FF">back

RAM:<font color="#990000">Qhat are you smoking?

RAM:<font color="#990000">Cider is delicious!

VAE:<font color="#000000">^

VAE:<font color="#000000">Hard cider is *awesome*

RAM:<font color="#990000">Indeed!

RAM:<font color="#990000">My personal favorite alcohol.

RAM:<font color="#990000">You can totally hammered off of it, easily.

RAM:<font color="#990000">And it's a happy drunk!

RAM:<font color="#990000">Because you're getting drunk off of apple juice!

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">My point exactly.

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">I will make all other alcohol (besides the Unicorn Man brew) be as water to you.

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">And eventually... *_*

RAM:<font color="#990000">Umm...

RAM:<font color="#990000">It's not even so much that it's really strong.

VAE:<font color="#000000">yep it's about as strong as beer

RAM:<font color="#990000">It's that it's so delicious you don't even really notice how much you're drinking.

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">I'm not talking about strength.

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">Strength is totally not what I care about.

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">I'm talking taste.

RAM:<font color="#990000">Then your terminology sucks.

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">And all of the PCP I'll mix in.

RAM:<font color="#990000">&quot;As water&quot; means it basically has no more effect on you than water.

RAM:<font color="#990000">That term is directly referring to the strength. :P

RAM:<font color="#990000">FIX YO TERMINOLOGY!

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">I meant bland and tastelss. Like water.

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">But okay.

<font color="#0000ff">Dr. Hatari has connected.

</i>Liatai:<font color="#000000">Just in time! I just finished the treasures. :3

Ghostwish:<font color="#9933FF">What a fitting thing to say to our loot whore. XP

RAM:<font color="#990000">WHOOOOOOOOORE!

GM:<font color="#000000">Lemme know when you're ready to start, Hatari. In the meantime, how's everyone been? :3

Meany:<font color="#660033">Great grandpa's riding mower broke down, which was a godsend for a while.

Meany:<font color="#660033">But he's got it fixed.

RAM:<font color="#990000">I've been good!

Ghostwish:<font color="#9933FF">Survivin'. How's the piping goin, Liasilly?

RAM:<font color="#990000">Busy, but good.

VAE:<font color="#000000">Allright, I guess

Meany:<font color="#660033">POP QUIZ.

RAM:<font color="#990000">42!

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Still frozen.

Meany:<font color="#660033">What rank of nobility exists (apparently) to give heirs to greater titles of nobility something to do/brag about?

RAM:<font color="#990000">Your mom!

Meany:<font color="#660033">True, but not the answer.

RAM:<font color="#990000">Trotsky!

Liatai:<font color="#000000">... uh. This I don't know. ^^;

RAM:<font color="#990000">The Cotton Gin!

Meany:<font color="#660033">Vae?

RAM:<font color="#990000">George Washington!

* Dr. Hatari settles in.

* Meany drops a large bell onto Ram.

Meany:<font color="#660033">The answer is Viscount.

RAM:<font color="#990000">x = (-b +/-(sqrt(b^2-4ac)))/2a

Meany:<font color="#660033">A viscount is above a baron, but below a count. And apparently, it primarily existed as a title of nobility for heirs to greater titles, and not much else.

Meany:<font color="#660033">No information on the size of a viscounty has been found by me. Saph or Vae might know.

Liatai:<font color="#000000">... Why the heck do I have this in my Youtube folder? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1VNyQgGSXzQ

VAE:<font color="#000000">Well, if it was a heir's title, it might have had ties to the land the person was a heir to

RAM:<font color="#990000">Because Tetris. :B

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">Spurning my movie version of Les Miserables.. listening to Tetris..

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">ARE YOU WEARING YOUR UNCOOL HIPSTER GLASSES? &gt;:O

* Dr. Hatari is bricked.

Liatai:<font color="#000000">XD

VAE:<font color="#000000">spurning?

VAE:<font color="#000000">what does that mean

Gamal-Junayd:<font color="#000000">so, are we waiting on anyone? or can gamal opent he door no one else is at just to be annoying? :)

RAM:<font color="#990000">HIIIIIIIPSTEEEEEEEEEEEER!

* RAM immolates!

Meany:<font color="#660033">to kick or trample with the foot.

Liatai:<font color="#000000">I'm torn about the movie version, really. On one hand, I like the show. On the other... I know how much it made me cry just watching it on stage. :B *BRICK'D*

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/spurn?s=t

Meany:<font color="#660033">That is what spurn means.

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">Reject

Liatai:<font color="#000000">http://www.thefreedictionary.com/spurn

GM:<font color="#000000">Right then. POP QUIZ!

GM:<font color="#000000">Where is this and what are we doing here?

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">D| ...

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">Wait that isn't very hard. =3=

Glitch:<font color="#000000">We're in the Duergar fortress.

Glitch:<font color="#000000">We're looking for a bunch of little stones.

Glitch:<font color="#000000">We've got...I think three so far.

Gamal-Junayd:<font color="#000000">It's a deurgarr fortress were here to loot and raid and...oh I guess shut down some sort of summoning circle. but loot! Glory! victory! those come first

GM:<font color="#000000">Why are you looking for the little stones?

Glitch:<font color="#000000">We'll slot them into place at the statue at the center of the fortress

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">The statue needs them!

Tomiko Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">Because there's a puzzle.

Glitch:<font color="#000000">should open up a passageway.

Tomiko Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">And we're adventurers.

Tomiko Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">We don't know what will happen.

Gamal-Junayd:<font color="#000000">and here were held up doing a puzzle game

Tathi:<font color="#9933FF">&quot;We've found a curious puzzle that requires a series of stones to complete. Also, no one found the trolling? Look west.&quot;

Tomiko Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">It could play music for all we know.

Miron:<font color="#000000">Because they are tokens needed to open a safe way to the summoning grid

Tomiko Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">BUT WE'RE GONNA.

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Hah, magi and dragons hangin' out on the puzzle. :B

Miron:<font color="#000000">They are like the keys from a gate, and I believe the &quot;puzzle&quot; exists only so that the intended user is sure to insert them in the right order.

GM:<font color="#000000">Righto, last question.

GM:<font color="#000000">Where is this fortress, anyway?

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">Underground!

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">Under Yoriver. =3=

Gamal-Junayd:<font color="#000000">underdark

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">A lot.

Miron:<font color="#000000">Under the mines in Yoriver

Tathi:<font color="#9933FF">&quot;It's currently occupying the same land that Sszeyl intends to buy and turn into a school or a farmer's market or I don't know- OW! Who threw this brick!?&quot;

Glitch:<font color="#000000">In the Underdark, where Latonor says &quot;Stay to healers, don't go alone, report ANYTHING off, don't touch anything you don't know, don't blow things up.&quot;

Glitch:<font color="#000000">*Altonor

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">Stick to healers, be alert, listen, don't go off alone, mind the fungus, avoid inducing horrific geological messes.

* Sszeyl whistles innocently.

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Oop, grandma calling

Glitch:<font color="#000000">erp, afk a little bit for me, too. Brb

GM:<font color="#000000">Mmkay, sorry. Grandma fussing about the frozen pipes.

GM:<font color="#000000">Once Tech gets back, we'll begin. So..

GM:<font color="#000000">Roll call!

Meany:<font color="#660033">Brains.

Tokens dropped onto map 'Yoriver - Duergar Fortress'Rolls:<font color="#9933FF">*click* Yes? Hello?

GM:<font color="#000000">Hi rolls! Wazzap?

Rolls:<font color="#9933FF">&quot;My ceiling. Why do you keep doing this?&quot;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">Here~!

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">Operator standing by.

GM:<font color="#000000">Because you're incredible and edible!

GM:<font color="#000000">Or was that eggs.

RAM:<font color="#990000">Why not both?

GM:<font color="#000000">Maybe I should start making egg roll calls.

RAM:<font color="#990000">Not a bad idea.

* Gamal-Junayd opens the door

Glitch:<font color="#000000">back again

Glitch:<font color="#000000">Present

GM:<font color="#000000">Okay! So.

* VAE mroweth presently

GM:<font color="#000000">Which door?

GM:<font color="#000000">-- Oh, lemme clear init while I'm thinking of it.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Door number 3, I believe.

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">Nope, number 4!

Teeny Rin:<font color="#FF0000">Hold your god damn horses Hyuuint.

Gamal-Junayd:<font color="#000000">the door I'm next to

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Going 'round the clock.

Gamal-Junayd:<font color="#000000">4

Tomiko Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Hold on.. this place is huge, and there's an army of us that can barely funnel into a room given all of thirty seconds. We've got shit on the surface world that we could be doing with saved time, couldn't we?&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">I third the motion for 4.

Glitch:<font color="#000000">...Hyuuint's not even here?

Liatai:<font color="#000000">...

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Hyuuint's not in Akellon you goof. :P

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Indeed. We should split up.&quot;

Glitch:<font color="#000000">and is everyone picking door 4 just to be contrary? -3-

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">You missed the meaning of me calling Gamal Hyuuint. =w=;

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">Who always tries to take actions before Ghost even starts the game. :B

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">NEVER SPLIT THE PARTY! &gt;:O

Meany:<font color="#660033">Glitch, you are the most contrarry person in the game behind me and Vae respectively.

Tomiko Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">We're splitting the fucking party.

Tomiko Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">It's happening.

Edaric:<font color="#000000">&quot;That's a thought. Who's going where, if that happens?&quot;

Gamal-Junayd:<font color="#000000">yeah lets get this place cleared out asap

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Hmmm..&quot; He frowns and glances around to the assembled faces.

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;I'm following Sszeyl. I'm a healer and the moron is on the best way to get himself killed without one.&quot;

Ghostwish:<font color="#9933FF">I'm just anxious that the DM might not cut down the CR of certain encounters just because we split the party...

VAE:<font color="#000000">so?

* Liatai folds hands.

Vonain (Goldeneye):<font color="#000000">&quot;Didn't mister Altonor tell us to stick together?&quot;

VAE:<font color="#000000">we should handle them, still

VAE:<font color="#000000">with more trouble, but stil

Gamal-Junayd:<font color="#000000">&quot;It's not like any of these paths go very far. So...pick a door, and a group. Heck, some can stay here as central backup to come running if needed.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Mr. Altonor is not your mother, nor a good tactician. Tomiko is right.&quot;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Hy vill go verever de archers do not. Ve should hef range support in both groups.&quot; :3

Gamal-Junayd:<font color="#000000">&quot;theres what..2doors in here, and 2 doors in the frontal area unopened? So if anything, just count off 1, 2, 3, 4, and go whiechever one you end up at.&quot;

Masabel:<font color="#000000">&quot;What is your freaking prob --&quot; one of the drow starts to snap at Miron, before she gets thwapped with a healing wannd. &#171; &#160;1d8+1 = 4 + 1 = 5&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187; &quot;-- What was that for?!&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;&quot;Good point, Shenkfang.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;My freaking problem is you, and your filthy kin.&quot;

Altonor:<font color="#000000">&quot;(These guys fight themselves enough.)&quot; =3= (Elven)

Miron:<font color="#000000">*stare of death*

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">And I can pretty much do the job of two archers by myself, anyway. :P

Tomiko Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;There's a million of us.&quot; She squints darkly. &quot;Let's just get moving. Maybe we can get it done with half the infighting if we separate you god damn kids.&quot;

Tathi:<font color="#9933FF">&quot;(You'll find that particular gnome to be nothing short of ignorant and hateful. Any reason or attempt there of with him is a lost cause. Just ignore him.. although Aelian's made a fun game of taking the occasional snipe at his love life, which is nonexistant.&quot;) Tathi adds in elven.

Gamal-Junayd:<font color="#000000">&quot;Yeah, lets get moving. &quot;

* Gamal-Junayd opens door number 4

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Oi, don't open it yet.&quot;

Aelian:<font color="#9933FF">&quot;(Eh, it shuts him up for a minute or two.)&quot;

Masabel:<font color="#000000">&quot;(I'm not just going to sit here while he slanders -- OW, dad, cut it out!)&quot; &gt;:E &#171; &#160;1d8+1 = 6 + 1 = 7&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Ve still hefen't finished splitting de groups!&quot;

Glitch whispers: what's a good way to say &quot;Hatari, I empathize with you now when the game starts off with bickering, game hasn't even really gotten in and I'm already feeling my RP-mood deflated&quot; without getting some kind of crap &quot;you do it all the time too, you have no place to talk&quot; response/ &gt;.&gt;

Tathi:<font color="#9933FF">&quot;(Don't fret over it Masabel. When you realize how worthless he is, you'll see how worthless his insults are.)&quot;

* Masabel growls with frustration, trying to bat away the healing wand. &#171; &#160;1d8+1 = 1 + 1 = 2&#160;  &#187;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Fine, fine.. let's just keep Guardians and Raiders together, then, I guess, for familiarity's sake.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;What the fuck's taking so long, have you lot set roots?&quot;

Tathi:<font color="#9933FF">She seems to be succeeding. XP

Swallowtail:<font color="#000000">&quot;Fair.&quot;

* Gamal-Junayd is waiting on the door to be opened

Firaira:<font color="#9933FF">&quot;Can we leave this bunch of kids down here alone?&quot; Firaria says flatly.

Edaric:<font color="#000000">&quot;Vonain, your choice which group you want to go with, then.&quot;

Vonain (Goldeneye):<font color="#000000">Meanwhile, Vonain looks over and notices Fiaria with a scratch. He pulls out his own wand and zaps it at her. &#171; &#160;1d8+1 = 8 + 1 = 9&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187;

Firaira:<font color="#9933FF">The wand is ranged?

Vonain (Goldeneye):<font color="#000000">He steps over and steps back.

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Nope, CLW wands are touch range.

Vonain (Goldeneye):<font color="#000000">Wer're not in combat. It's not like everyone literally has a 5x5 no-addmittance zone.

Vonain (Goldeneye):<font color="#000000">How could anyone hug if that were the case?

Liatai:<font color="#000000">With very long arms. *brick'd*

Teeny Rin:<b><font color="#FF0000">In a world without hugs...

</b></i>Firaira:<font color="#9933FF">The elf jolts and hisses as she spins around, glaring at Vonain. &quot;Do you always go about prodding people without warning!?&quot; She snaps.

Masabel:<font color="#000000">&#171; &#160;1d8+1 = 1 + 1 = 2&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187;

Firaira:<font color="#9933FF">You need to quit dodging that wand, Masabel. XP

Tomiko Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">Yes, yes.. my plan comes to fruitition.. =w= *bricked!!*

Vonain (Goldeneye):<font color="#000000">&quot;You'd think one would be appreciative of being healed when they've forgotten their own injuries...&quot; Vonain seems to say to himself as he walks over to the Guardians.

Masabel:<font color="#000000">&quot;We should start up a support group, Firaira. Ladies Against Unwanted Poking.&quot; &gt;:P At least she's getting distrated from glaring at Miron.

Miron:<font color="#000000">Of course the inquisitor is glaring back.

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;Good luck.&quot;

Glitch whispers: and did you catch my whisper earlier? &gt;.&gt;

Altonor:<font color="#000000">&quot;Same to you.&quot;

Firaira:<font color="#9933FF">&quot;That somehow sounds.. perverted, Masabel.&quot;

You whisper to Glitch: I did -- that seems fine to me, but if you have any doubts, don't say it.

* Thomas Lazarus sighs and readies his sword wearily.

Tathi:<font color="#9933FF">Yeah you want to be over there in that group, doncha Thomas? NOPE. STUCK WITH THE KIDS. MUAHAHA.

Masabel:<font color="#000000">&quot;Too much time in the company of the old man.&quot; :P

Viceth:<font color="#000000">&quot;Who's slandering now?&quot; |3

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">u_u

Firaira:<font color="#9933FF">&quot;Is he senile yet?&quot;

Glitch whispers: Mreh...yes, I have doubts because that's what usually happens, and time has passed anyway. Nevermind...

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;Let's go.&quot;

Altonor:<font color="#000000">&quot;Hey, Tomiko, gonna help get this door out of the way?&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">And le open door.

Teeny Rin:<font color="#FF0000">Gamal has been stuck in front of the door with a 'Loading 99%' indicator over him for ten minutes.

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Und anodder door!&quot; :B

Tathi:<font color="#9933FF">&quot;Any traps, Swallowtail?&quot;

Swallowtail:<font color="#000000">-- Right, that's what the DM forgot, character sheets open.

Swallowtail:<font color="#FF0000">Search: &#171; &#160;1d20+10 = 19 + 10 = 29&#160; <font color="#FF0000">&#187;

Swallowtail:<font color="#000000">&#171; &#160;1d20+10 = 16 + 10 = 26&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187;

Swallowtail:<font color="#000000">We'll take yours. =3=

Swallowtail:<font color="#FF0000">:3

* Gamal-Junayd listens at the door (Listen Check : &#171; &#160;1d20+1 = 7 + 1 = 8&#160;  &#187;)

Swallowtail:<font color="#000000">&quot;No traps... but smells.&quot; The ninja sniffs. &quot;... Dust, smoke.&quot;

Swallowtail:<font color="#000000">&quot;And stink.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Smells? Anything you recognise as poisonous?&quot;

Tathi:<font color="#9933FF">&quot;Curious.. Is there a breed of devil that smells like that?&quot; Tathi ponders, thinking. Knowledge check, DM?

Tomiko Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">You can hear the other group demolishing Duergar stonework.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Never a good combination.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Or .. hmm.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot; Guess we'll just have to be prepared..&quot;

* Gamal-Junayd tightens the bandages over his face, hopefully it'll help a bit if needed

You whisper to Dr. Hatari: Once the Guardians get going, I'll tell you what Tomi and the Raiders find. She should have fun with this. |3

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">And le open door.

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;This used to be a mine.. hope there's not a pocket of coal gas somewhere... though, that one doesn't smell.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Do you sense anything beyond, Thomas?&quot;

Edaric:<font color="#000000">&quot;Say, Tom, do you see -- what Gnogglebolt said.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">Tom uses his evil-sensing sight. Could be undead!

* Thomas Lazarus gives the door a brief blue-glowing glare. &quot;Let's see..&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Still, be careful. This is deep, poor ventilation... and sometimes the smell of decay in such places can be suffocating.&quot;

You whisper to Dr. Hatari: There are ten dim auras -- lingering, residual things.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;..Yeah.. I can sense some... a lot of them. Ten. Weak, too..&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Probably the Damned.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;There were tales among the dwarves of folks dying when they fell down a waste chute because of that. Like your body can't feed on eating shit, your lungs can't breathe stink.&quot;

* Thomas Lazarus nods.

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Alone, that is.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Devils?&quot; Gnogglebolt double-checks his belt.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;My guess is zombies. We'll soon see.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Even a Lemure would feel worse than this.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Anyone with better aim than me wants a few holy water bottles?&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">...he also dearly hopes the other group doesn't encounter any...

* Edaric draws his sword, just in case.

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Eider vay, de vill die.&quot; &gt;:3

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot; Oh, okay.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt turns to Miron and points to the barrel on his back. &quot;Oh, yes.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">Sszeyl gives the door a more forceful push. &gt;:V

Gamal-Junayd:<font color="#000000">&quot;We'll, zombies, lemures, lost souls...lets find out shall we?&quot; he then opens the door

Swallowtail:<font color="#000000">&quot; Zombies. &quot; Swallowtail frowns. :|

Miron:<font color="#000000">The inquisitor mumbles and soon enough, flickers with hard white light. Light of Lunia regular cast.

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">Why did it have to be snakes?

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Here, knock yourself out, and don't spray me again.&quot; *Hands three bottles of holy water to Gnogglebolt.*

GM:<font color="#000000">Tom seems to be wrong -- they were devils. Key word, were. They're just smoldering husks now, with electrical burns.

Vonain (Goldeneye):<font color="#000000">Vonain, meanwhile, is grinning. &quot; Finally, my spriti-reaver might see some use...&quot;

* Thomas Lazarus blinks a few times in surprise.

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;This cannot possibly be good.&quot;

* Thomas Lazarus lowers his sword and squints.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;..Guess that explains that..&quot;

Edaric:<font color="#000000">&quot;... Dead?&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;The fuck.. something here takes devils down by the dozen.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Like coffin nails.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Vonain takes the holy water and stows it in preparation. 3 holy waters get!

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;... Tathi, could you check for magic ...?&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Maybe there's a.. trap that killed them.&quot;

Vonain (Goldeneye):<font color="#000000">I also have perma-detect magic, by the way.

Vonain (Goldeneye):<font color="#000000">Vonain is squinting at the hallway.

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Hmm...&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">I didn't know. |D;

Vonain (Goldeneye):<font color="#000000">&quot;Try and save your magic, miss Tathi, let me check it first...&quot;

Vonain (Goldeneye):<font color="#000000">(actually, I was saying the perma-detect magic for the benefit of DM, really)

You whisper to Glitch: A dim aura remains, fading quickly.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">Ehn she's usually not paying attention to me anyways. =3= *shock'd*

Vonain (Goldeneye):<font color="#000000">&quot;Okay, there's....definitly something.&quot; Vonain says. &quot;It's fading fast, though, I can't make out any more of it.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;So it could be the remains of a spell.&quot;

Vonain (Goldeneye):<font color="#000000">&quot;I am attuned to be able to sense the presense of magic at all times, I just can never figure out what kind they are. If you want to try, Tathi, do it right now.&quot;

* Swallowtail checks the floor ahead for mechanisms.

Swallowtail:<font color="#FF0000">Search: &#171; &#160;1d20+10 = 1 + 10 = 11&#160; <font color="#FF0000">&#187;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Either there was a trap, or someone paid a visit.&quot;

You whisper to Glitch: Whatever it was jumped from devil to devil, and had an origin point about where you're standing.

Swallowtail:<font color="#FF0000">&gt;|

Tathi:<font color="#9933FF">&quot;Allright, one moment..&quot; She says, and casts Detect Magic.

Vonain (Goldeneye):<font color="#000000">&quot;--Whoa, miss Swallowtail!&quot;

You whisper to Dr. Hatari: No traps found.

Vonain (Goldeneye):<font color="#000000">&quot;Don't take another step!&quot;

Gamal-Junayd:<font color="#000000">is there any loose stone around?

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Search check.

Gamal-Junayd:<font color="#000000">(Search Check : &#171; &#160;1d20+3 = 20 + 3 = 23&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187;)

* Swallowtail didn't advance.

* Gamal-Junayd finds ALL the stones

Vonain (Goldeneye):<font color="#000000">&quot;It looks like...the magic, whatever it was, jumped from devil to devil...and started right about here.&quot;

You whisper to Ghostwish: There's a dim aura, fading quickly. Whatever it was originated from about where Vonain is standing now, and jumped from devil to devil.

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Well. We know the summoners go in regularly.&quot;

Edaric:<font color="#000000">&quot;Why would the summoners kill their own forces, though?&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;If the devils were killed by a trap, it didn't prevent more folks advancing, whenever was it they went in last.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Sounds like the chain-lightning Raerarael used.. ... ..but what hit them with it..?&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Means the trap should be disabled.&quot;

Tathi whispers: Spellcraft?

Edaric:<font color="#000000">&quot;Oh, I see now what you mean.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Or it was someone else who did it, and in that case, we can tread safely, too.&quot;

You whisper to Ghostwish: Go ahead. :3

Gamal-Junayd whispers: so 23 fine for finding stones?

Tathi:<font color="#9933FF">&#171; &#160;1d20+18 = 19 + 18 = 37&#160; <font color="#9933FF">&#187; spellcraft! -5 if its necromancy or illusion, +2 if it's evocation!

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt approaches. &quot;Hold on, lemme look for anything out of the ordinary...&quot; Search check, taking 10 &#171; &#160;10+18 = 10 + 18 = 28&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187; about where Vonain indicates, for anything in the stonework that's off.

You whisper to Railock: It's an old fortress, there are loose stones about. :B But nothing that would indicate a trap.

You whisper to Glitch: It's an old fortress, there are loose stones about. :B But nothing that would indicate a trap.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Okay, it...doesn't look like there's anything that would indicate an automatic trap.&quot;

You whisper to Ghostwish: Tom is right on the money, likely. It's definitely evocation, electrical flavor.

Swallowtail:<font color="#FF0000">I should probably just let you take care of the traps and stick to force recon.

* Gamal-Junayd picks up one of the stones. and throws it down the hallway. seeing if it sets anything off at random.

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Fine. Anyone wants to take first step?&quot;

Vonain (Goldeneye):<font color="#000000">&quot;Then that means it probably was someone casting something.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">Tom does.

Tathi:<font color="#9933FF">&quot;Thomas has the right idea. Evocation, and a shocking bit of it, if you catch my drift.&quot;

Gamal-Junayd:<font color="#000000">&quot;Everyone, back up, give me a little room. I'm gonna try jumping. There might be a way to deactivate it on teh far side like the blades&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">If only in an effort to do it before Gamal and Sszeyl race to see who can aggro All the Things first.

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Nothing happens, whether to stone or to step.

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Fair enough.&quot;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Ve don't efen know if dere is a trap, Gamal.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;I'm reasonably sure there isn't.&quot;

* Gamal-Junayd backs up a bit, and attempts a running leap. take ten &#171; &#160;10+26 = 10 + 26 = 36&#160;  &#187; so 36 feet down the cooridor

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Then, let's waste no more time, and advance.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;All the evidence points to someone doing this, not something.&quot;

You whisper to Dr. Hatari: Meanwhile, in the other passageway... Another door is opened to a hallway sloping downward.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;If a spell gets cast at me.. I can atleast try to defl -- well nevermind.&quot;

* Thomas Lazarus watches the swordsman sail away. =w=;

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">For once, I'm not going to do that.

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Nothing happens.

* Gamal-Junayd walks to the end of the cooridor then.

* Thomas Lazarus follows. &quot; Sheesh..&quot;

Glitch:<font color="#000000">~iiiiiiiiiiiiiii'm sailing awaaaaaaaaaaaaay~

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">Vell den, let's go!

VAE:<font color="#000000">No

VAE:<font color="#000000">Sail Away by Enya

VAE:<font color="#000000">It's like, the least appropriate music for this here

VAE:<font color="#000000">all cheery and new-agey

You whisper to Dr. Hatari: The group gets a bit down the hallway... before they hear something over their heads. A rolling, and grinding of stone...

Vonain (Goldeneye):<font color="#000000">Vonain, meanwhile, is peering at the door to see if he can sense anything inherantly magic on the other side.

You whisper to Dr. Hatari: Can you see what dropped down from the ceiling? :B

Vonain (Goldeneye):<font color="#000000">That is, if the door isn't thick enough to block it.

Thomas Lazarus whispers: XP

* Thomas Lazarus looks about with a slight frown, and gives the next door another evil-detecting stare. &quot;...&quot;

You whisper to Ghostwish: Come to think of it, you should see this, too. The northern group got a bit farther down the passageway, which is sloping slightly downward... when they hear something over their heads. A rolling, and grinding of stone... Look at what just dropped down behind them. :B

Firaira:<font color="#9933FF">Running running running don't mind me!

</i>Liatai:<font color="#000000">Listen checks, Guardians. :B

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">Spot: &#171; &#160;1d20+5 = 16 + 5 = 21&#160; <font color="#FF0000">&#187; Listen: &#171;  &#160;1d20+5 = 1 + 5 = 6&#160; <font color="#FF0000">&#187;

Swallowtail:<font color="#FF0000">Spot: &#171; &#160;1d20+3 = 9 + 3 = 12&#160; <font color="#FF0000">&#187; Listen: &#171;  &#160;1d20+4 = 8 + 4 = 12&#160; <font color="#FF0000">&#187;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&#171; &#160;1d20+5 = 20 + 5 = 25&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187; Listen

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&#171; &#160;1d20 = 3&#160; <font color="#990000">&#187; WHAT?!

Miron:<font color="#000000">Always watchful.

You whisper to Dr. Hatari: Just a few fading dim auras, same as before.

Tathi:<font color="#9933FF">&#171; &#160;1d20+2+1 = 18 + 2 + 1 = 21&#160; <font color="#9933FF">&#187; listen!

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">Tom squints. &quot;... I think it's more corpses ...&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">He nods to the others on the door.

You whisper to Glitch: A dim set of auras, fading, with origin points near or behind the door you're at.

Aelian:<font color="#9933FF">&#171; &#160;1d20+13 = 13 + 13 = 26&#160; <font color="#9933FF">&#187; listen!

Gamal-Junayd:<font color="#000000">(Listen Check : &#171; &#160;1d20+1 = 6 + 1 = 7&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187;)

Vonain (Goldeneye):<font color="#000000">&quot; At least two weak magic traces, fading fast. Just like the electrified devils.&quot;

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Those of you who rolled over a 20 can hear a CLUNK and a loud rolling sound to the north.

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Fuck... something's rolling over there.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&#171; &#160;1d20+8 = 1 + 8 = 9&#160; <font color="#660033">&#187; Listen check!

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;I don't like the noise of it.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">Nope.

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Step aside the door.&quot;

Vonain (Goldeneye):<font color="#000000">&quot;...I'm sure whatever it is, the other group has it under control.&quot;

Vonain (Goldeneye):<font color="#000000">&quot;There was no point in splitting up if we can't trust them to be able to handle anything on their own.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Yeah. We'll just have to trust them to handle it. We've got problems of our own to focus on, for now.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Indeed. Let us keep minds to our own job.&quot;

You whisper to Dr. Hatari: Between all of them, I'm sure they can outrun the rock of doom. Nobody with a 20 move speed there, and both a pegasus and a wolf to ride. :B I'll pick up the rest of the passage when the Guardian group gets farther.

Teeny Rin:<font color="#FF0000">IF YOU LOVE YOUR NPCS, YOU'LL SET THEM FREE. *bricked*

You whisper to Ghostwish: Between all of them, I'm sure they can outrun the rock of doom. Nobody with a 20 move speed there, and both a pegasus and a wolf to ride. :B I'll pick up the rest of the passage when the Guardian group gets farther.

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;I suppose.. though there isn't anyone among them I'd trust..&quot;

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Anyone opening the door? :3

Vonain (Goldeneye):<font color="#000000">&quot; Might wanna open the door, quickly, if you want to catch whatever's zapping everything. Those signatures are fresh and still fading.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">I had assumed -- oop.

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">Yo.

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;...Huh, dead knight.&quot; :.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;..Hmmm..?&quot; Tom squints.

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Someone .. doesn't seem to have picky methods.&quot;

GM:<font color="#000000">The door opens into a room with a few bookshelves, a few broken chairs... and some corpses. A devil... and some humanoids.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Yoriver forces.&quot;

Tathi:<font color="#9933FF">Tathi's eyes immediately go to the bookshelves..

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Wait, if there are humanoids..&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;I spy a fungus.&quot;

Aelian:<font color="#9933FF">&quot;Books later, my love.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">I think.

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">Do I require a checl? :b

Liatai:<font color="#000000">DM move is off, proceed as you please. :3

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">check*

Vonain (Goldeneye):<font color="#000000">Vonain suddenly points to the corner. &quot; Purple fungus. Stay away from it.&quot;

Liatai:<font color="#000000">You can see the fungus clearly; it's purple and glowing.

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Sszeyl might even recognize it as delicious.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">Well. Tom checks the corpses. Heal: &#171; &#160;1d20+17 = 15 + 17 = 32&#160; <font color="#FF0000">&#187;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;If you've got a few minutes..&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">Forensics time.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt walks in. &quot; A dead end...?&quot;

Swallowtail:<font color="#000000">&quot;... We are not alone, here.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;I could... ask him.&quot;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Hy bet dere iz summdink on vun of dese shelves.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Saint Cuthbert grants me the power to speak with dead, to an extent.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">Tom stands quickly and readies his sword. &quot;Not alone??&quot;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">!

Vonain (Goldeneye):<font color="#000000">The moment Swallowtail speaks, Vonain gets his sword in a ready position.

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">Gun time!

Swallowtail:<font color="#000000">&quot;Ease. Not that close. I mean, someone was here.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Seems like that was aca- oh.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Ah..&quot; He lowers his sword point and looks around.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;..It does seem like a mage has been through here..&quot;

Vonain (Goldeneye):<font color="#000000">Vonain lowers his sword, but his shoulders remain visibly tensed, even under his breastplate and coat.

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Oh.&quot; :B

Tathi:<font color="#9933FF">Tathi squints.. and casts detect invisibility.

Miron:<font color="#000000">&#171; &#160;1d20+7 = 16 + 7 = 23&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187; Search. Which of the two bodies looks more reasonably intact?

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;..If you're still there and invisible.. we're not in league with Montclaire?&quot; =w=;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Vell, books hain't really my ting, zo...Hy vill stand guard, Hy guess.&quot; :B

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;.... This... can't be a dead end, not if this branch follows the same pattern as the rest...and duergar, like dwarves, like patterns....&quot;

GM:<font color="#000000">As far as forensics goes, it's pretty easy. The devil was shocked to death, with some rapier-sized puncture wounds. The mages also bear signs of magical trauma, and similar rapier wounds; most of them are through the back. A hand crossbow bolt can be found embedded in the mage's shoulder.

Thomas Lazarus: <font color="#ff0000">(( Brb 1 shake ))

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot; ...Wait a minute...&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Rapier wounds.. if he wasn't in devil's arse, I'd say Cal'tel&quot;

You whisper to Ghostwish: No invisible things.

Tathi:<font color="#9933FF">&quot;Nothing invisible.&quot; Tathi comments.

Liatai:<font color="#000000">How did I know that would be the first thing Miron said. XD *brick'd*

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Allright. Time to have a chat.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt separately searches each of the bookshelves (except the moldy one, Gnogglebolt avoids that one), taking 10; &#171; &#160;10+18 = 10 + 18 = 28&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187;, for anything that might indicate... a secret passage?

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Maybe they knew how to get the sphere, too... we shall see.&quot;

Swallowtail:<font color="#000000">&quot;Even so. Report said Cal'tel kills from the front, not the back.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">Tom frowns hard and stands. &quot;..Well.. someone was definitely responsible for this.&quot; Are these corpses long dead?

You whisper to Glitch: Ding ding ding! Every bookshelf, including the moldy one, is on runners. They're all meant to move aside!

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">As Gnogglebolt moves from shelf to shelf...he starts moving much more excitedly, and his eyes go wider.

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Not long dead at all. Half an hour, perhaps an hour.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Olidamarrans..? They didn't say anything about coming this far in.. ... ..Drow..?&quot;

* Thomas Lazarus cradles his chin and ponders. &quot;They're fresh kills..&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">After he checks even the moldy one... he whistles quietly.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot; Guys! Guys!&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">Moldy one is opposite of you.

* Thomas Lazarus glances to Gnogglebolt.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;All these bookshelves--they're all secret passage doors!&quot;

Tathi:<font color="#9933FF">Tathi looks over. &quot;Curious..&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;All four of them!&quot;

Teeny Rin:<font color="#FF0000">I LOOT THE HUMANS.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">ffffff not now

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">:.

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Huh.&quot;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Vun at a time, den?&quot;

Vonain (Goldeneye):<font color="#000000">&quot;Are they, now?&quot; Vonain passes by each of the bookshelves, staring at each one as he passes to see if he can pick up any magic behind them.

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Oddly enough... there's no loot. Someone stripped the bodies before you, leaving only clothes.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">\o/

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">Dammit!

You whisper to Glitch: There's some behind both the southern and eastern doors.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;..Looks like we could run head-on into another adventuring group.&quot;

Vonain (Goldeneye):<font color="#000000">Vonain points to the lopsided shelf and the cold shelf.

Vonain (Goldeneye):<font color="#000000">&quot;Those two.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Check your aggression, friends.&quot;

Vonain (Goldeneye):<font color="#000000">&quot;They have magic behind them.&quot;

You whisper to Glitch: No, no, EAST door. ^^;

Vonain (Goldeneye):<font color="#000000">Er, strike that

You whisper to Glitch: Cold is west.

Vonain (Goldeneye):<font color="#000000">Vonain points to the lopsided shelf and the moldy shelf.

Vonain (Goldeneye):<font color="#000000">&quot;Those two. They have magic behind them.&quot;

Vonain (Goldeneye) whispers: strength/fading?

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;..What kind of magics?&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">The inquisitor begins to draw a set of six ornate sigils on the floor, placing the hands, legs, head and lower spine of the summoner in such manner each body part is in contact of a specific section. He adds a few lines, then begins to recite: &quot;In the name of Saint Cuthbert, who holds power over the live and the unliving, I command you, corpse, open your mouth and reveal so that justice may be carried out today.&quot; As he recites, the inquisitor opens the dead summoner's jaws and places his cross on his forehead.

You whisper to Dr. Hatari: After, I'm sure, some laughing at the simple trap and outrunning it, the northern group continues down the hallway... K-CHUNK.

You whisper to Ghostwish: After, I'm sure, some laughing at the simple trap and outrunning it, the northern group continues down the hallway... K-CHUNK.

Miron:<font color="#000000">Speak with Dead

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">Tom pauses from his questions for a moment to watch the interrogation with the body. &quot;Hmmm..?&quot;

You whisper to Dr. Hatari: YUP. Take two! :P

VAE:<font color="#000000">One question per two caster levels, if the corpse's allignment is different to the caster it might resist.

You whisper to Ghostwish: YUP. Take two! :P

Tomiko Lazarus whispers: &quot;Seriously..?!&quot;

VAE:<font color="#000000">*speak, not reveal. Accident drafting

Dead Summoner:<font color="#000000">The light of the spell sinks into the body.. which gives a sudden shudder, and its slightly opened eyes roll toward Miron blankly.

* VAE didn't have this ritual pre-typed

* Edaric shudders a bit. Creepy.

* Swallowtail watches, curiously.

Vonain (Goldeneye):<font color="#000000">Vonain raises an eye and watches with mild interest.

Vonain (Goldeneye):<font color="#000000">*eyebrow

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Describe the one that killed you and your fellows, dead one.&quot;

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">It should not be so amusing to me that Alexander Anderson has SPEAK WITH DEAD scribbles onto the back of one of his gloves.

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Who?

VAE:<font color="#000000">Alexander Anderson

VAE:<font color="#000000">The preist from Hellsing

VAE:<font color="#000000">Essentially a two metre version of Miron with katanas

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">http://a1.ec-images.myspacecdn.com/images02/115/edf0d697fd8b404f93be25abd4b5aeb5/l.jpg

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">^

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">x3

RAM:<font color="#990000">Not katanas.

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">Basically.

RAM:<font color="#990000">Bayonets.

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">Some lunatic catholic priest heretic slayer.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Meanwhile, Gnogglebolt goes over to Sszeyl. &quot; Hey, can you check out the purple fungus over there? Altonor said purple glowy fungus is -usually- safe, and edible to boot, but some might try to eat back. Can you tell which that one is? I don't want to get close to it.&quot;

VAE:<font color="#000000">Anderson was awesome

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">Time to roll.

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">COMMON SENSE CHECK.

VAE:<font color="#000000">the little I read of Hellsing.

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&#171; &#160;1d20+3 = 3 + 3 = 6&#160; <font color="#660033">&#187; Wis check!

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">Hurrr.

Dead Summoner:<font color="#000000">&quot;Black shadows and lightning storms, white hair and dark skin, red eyes and gold eye... Three...&quot;

Glitch:<font color="#000000">Sszeyl doesn't remember the fungus from his own home? :B

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">Apparently not.

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Sszeyl's eaten enough of these to remember. :P

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Black shadows and lightning storms. . . Tom, could it be the Hooded Lanterns here?&quot;

Liatai:<font color="#000000">A DC 5 Wis check's enough.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebpolt starts as he hears the raspy voice, and rushes over. &quot;No...it can't be...&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">Tom seems surprised. &quot;...&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Did it say gold eye?&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;... Gold eye ...&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Didn't...&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;It did...&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Those ... are the Helvirahel assassins.&quot; He furrows his brow.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Didn't those assasins after us have one with a gold eye?&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;Safe to eat.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;They have an artificer with them with a gold eye.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Okay, we have a new target of opportunity if we see them, people, but everyone stay on alert.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;..This is bad.&quot; He looks around. &quot;..Why are they here.. unless it's to get to us? Or the gate?&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;What were they after?&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">(to corpse)

Tathi:<font color="#9933FF">&quot;One of them was missing fingers..&quot;

Dead Summoner:<font color="#000000">&quot;Don't know... they came, and death came swiftly after...&quot;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Assassins?&quot; :.

Vonain (Goldeneye):<font color="#000000">Vonain squares his shoulders and keeps a tight grip on his greatsword at the mention of assassins, but it's not a shaking revelation to him. He wanders over to Sszeyl. On a whim...

Vonain (Goldeneye):<font color="#000000">&quot;That's the safe fungus, huh? ...what the heck, break off a piece, lemme try it while they're questioning the corpse. I bet we'll be moving as soon as they're done.&quot;

Teeny Rin:<font color="#FF0000">Eeeewwwws

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">Sszeyl does so.

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">:O

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Food?&quot; :.

* Thomas Lazarus eyerolls.

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">It...breaks off into the shape of a triangle. Wide at the end he's holding narrow at the middle. And puffy.

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;Here.&quot;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Kan Hy try?&quot; :.

Tathi:<font color="#9933FF">&quot; Gods above, really? &quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;Sure.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">Snap.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt meanwhile looks at Tathi. &quot;Tathi, Vonain said there was magic behind the moldy door and the lopsided door. Can you figure out what kinds of magic?&quot;

Vonain (Goldeneye):<font color="#000000">Vonain nibbles the chunk as he moves back to the others.

Tathi:<font color="#9933FF">Tathi nods, and scans a bit. DM?

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">Omnomnom.

GM:<font color="#000000">It tastes kind of bland raw, and your mouth may glow purple for a bit afterward. It's pretty hearty, though, for a mushroom.

Teeny Rin:<font color="#FF0000">Your DM is compiling.

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Mmm, not bad.&quot;

Vonain (Goldeneye):<font color="#000000">Not terrible, but interesting...

</i><font color="#000000"> Vonain thinks to himself as he wraps the hunk of fungus with some cloth scrap from his pack, and stows it.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">-FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF I FORGOT ALL ALONG CHOSEN FOE GIVES ME A BONUS TO SR PENETRATION CHECKS ON DEVILS.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">THAT FIRST BANISH. &gt;:O

* Thomas Lazarus is bricked.

Glitch:<font color="#000000">wat. xD

You whisper to Ghostwish: There are a number of auras to the south, and a mixed aura to the east.

Tathi:<font color="#9933FF">Tathi turns her gaze to the south, and studies intently. Next step of detect magic, DM?

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Hmm, we probably won't find anything more about the assassins from him&quot; the inquisitor mumbles, then turns back to his subject of interest. &quot;There are stones in this fortress that open the way to the summoning grid. Tell me, how many are there?

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;If they have been through here in the past half hour, just ahead of us..&quot;

You whisper to Ghostwish: Six auras south of varying strength -- might be a treasure hoard -- and one mixed aura east.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;..then we can't assume anything but the worst.&quot;

Dead Summoner:<font color="#000000">&quot;Six, but seven is the magic number.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Agreed. Once Tathi determines the most likely one they went through, we should try and catch up with them.&quot;

Tathi:<font color="#9933FF">&quot;Hrm. South first.&quot; Tathi says. &quot;Six auras, of varying strength.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;...And end them, once and for all.&quot;

Miron: <font color="#000000">&quot;Hmm, I was right&quot;

<font color="#000000">&quot;Where do they lie?&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Okay, form up as Tathi says, everyone, 'm going to try and open the lopsided shelf.&quot;

Dead Summoner:<font color="#000000">&quot;In the altars, behind the doors. They return when the door is opened.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Right..&quot;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">Gun up, locked and loaded!

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt moves over to the shelf. Knowledge (Arch &amp; Eng) to try and determine the secret mechanism that opens it? &#171; &#160;1d20+18 = 17 + 18 = 35&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Let's gather up and do this. Be ready for anything. Especially magic traps and ambushes.&quot; &gt;:|

Gamal-Junayd:<font color="#000000">&quot;So. got a question&quot; (stupid room mate dragged me off just got back) &quot;Who..are these assasins, and how do you know them?&quot;

* Thomas Lazarus glances back. &quot;..Don't get separated, Ed. I don't want to glance back and not see you with us anymore.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Oh, I thought for sure we told you before, Gamal...&quot; Gnogglebolt says as he looks over the shelf for how to open it.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;They're drow assassins from below who've been dogging our steps for awhile.&quot;

Liatai:<font color="#000000">brb phone

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;... In fact, Gamal, Sszeyl, you two take point.&quot; Tom goes to cover the back of the party.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;They set our old temporary headquarters on fire.&quot;

Gamal-Junayd:<font color="#000000">&quot;And why are they after you? even better, what could they be after down here.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;If I remember correctly, they belong to a surviving drow house under the 'Orgolloyss' who specialize in information brokering. Meaning they'll sell out anyone.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;They were after us because of Sszeyl.&quot;

* Edaric jolts. &quot;-- Right, coming.&quot; ^^;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;The power allows me for one more question. Suggestions?&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;The Helvirahel assassins were after Sszeyl because of some..&quot; He just gestures vaguely and Gnogglebolt, already explaining. &quot;..political stuff. And decided we're in the same boat as him. True blue Drow assassins. Professionals.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Tom? Gnogglebolt?|

* Thomas Lazarus shrugs. &quot;If you don't have one, don't waste time pokin' at it. This just got dire.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;...I don't suppose it's any good if--wait.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Ask it if they had their golem with them.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Good idea.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;That would be important.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt continues poking around the shelf, trying to find the opening.

Gamal-Junayd:<font color="#000000">&quot;Golem? Oh. now I remember. you mentioned a group of people after you with a golem before.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Was there a golem or a simular construct among those who brought you death?&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Yes, those ones, see I thought we had told you this before...&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">(to corpse)

Gamal-Junayd:<font color="#000000">&quot;But weren't they ditched way way far away from here due to Max flying us back? And then...the truck train..how did they get ahead of us?&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;They were ditched, yes.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Which means them being here means they have access to more dangerous resources than we knew.&quot;

Dead Summoner:<font color="#000000">&quot;A zombie...&quot; And then the body twitches once more, and lays still.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;I'm guessing they got their hands on some magical teleporting.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;They did all this. They made a golem in the field.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Stands to reason they can teleport in a pinch.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">The inquisitor closes the body's eyes. &quot;Lay yourself to eternal rest, corpse, for you have served the hand of justice.

Vonain (Goldeneye):<font color="#000000">&quot;...You guys said golem, the corpse just said zombie...wait, what kind of golem did you folks say it was? Wouldn't have been 'flesh', by any chance?&quot;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Vell, den let us go und get rid uf dem!&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Actually, yeah.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Flesh golem. Looks like a zombie, I guess.&quot;

Vonain (Goldeneye):<font color="#000000">&quot;Lovely.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">He wipes off the sigils, and stands up.

Vonain (Goldeneye):<font color="#000000">&quot;....Haven't you gotten that door open yet, gnome?&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Allright. He said there are six stones, all in altars, but the number is seven.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;I'm working on it!&quot;

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Oh right. |D;;;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Hmm...&quot;

Liatai:<font color="#000000">There's a small button near the base. Do you press it?

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Aha, here we are. This should do it...&quot; Press.

Edaric:<font color="#000000">&quot;... uh... Miron...

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Leaf de golem to me, den. Rose here kan overkome every kind uf protection from damage.&quot; &gt;:3

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">Thomas makes a few curt gestures and intones a brief prayer. A soft glow pulses over him and fades as he casts Shield of Faith on himself.

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;What?&quot;

Edaric:<font color="#000000">&quot;... I'm pretty sure those aren't on most 'hes.'&quot; =3=; Vague gesture at the summoner's chest.

Gamal-Junayd:<font color="#000000">&quot;But..aren't golems immune to most magic? would magical enhancements really bypass somethign immune to magics defenses?&quot;

Vonain (Goldeneye):<font color="#000000">&quot;Magic spells.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;What do you mean?&quot;

Vonain (Goldeneye):<font color="#000000">&quot;Magic steel? Less so.&quot;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Eksactly.&quot;

Dead Summoner:<font color="#000000">Boobs, Miron. Boobs. :B

Teeny Rin:<font color="#FF0000">The summoner is a woman.

Miron:<font color="#000000">&#171; &#160;1d20+7 = 14 + 7 = 21&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187; Search on the corpse.

Vonain (Goldeneye):<font color="#000000">Vonain hefts his greatsword.

Teeny Rin:<font color="#FF0000">Your search successfully reveals tits.

Dead Summoner:<font color="#000000">You don't need a Search to find boobs. They're not that small. :P *BRICK'D*

Glitch:<font color="#000000">does Searching for boobs mean Miron gropes them? :B

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">Yes.

Miron:<font color="#000000">Yes. He gropes them with the calm of a mortician.

Teeny Rin:<font color="#FF0000">Well, he did get a 21.

Miron:<font color="#000000">I have probably touched more dead breasts than live ones throughout my career, after all. *brick'd*

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Meanwhile, in &quot;Loading...Loading...Loading...&quot; land after pressing the button. :B

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Click! K-chunk. Roll roll roll... The bookcase groans and rolls aside.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">I do not need to know this, brother. =w=;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt quickly scurries to a midle position.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot; Forward march!&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;Lots of gold, obvious trap.&quot;

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Ack, sacred canine duty, BRB. I'll leave you with the loot list.

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Hang me on a rope from Lolth's arse, you're right... hard to tell with the voice the corpses have, and I was too busy preparing the ritual quickly.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">The inquisitor laughs.

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">LOOOOOT!

* Dr. Hatari opens Trick or Treat bag.

GM:<font color="#000000">180 GP, 1350 SP, 4 CP, a milky green piece of chrysoprase, a dense silver-black chunk of hematite, a glossy knife-shaped sliver of obsidian, a quartz crystal as long as a human's thumb, two silver pearls, a leather mask shaped like a dragon's head and covered in glossy dark scales with an iridescent sheen, an ebony miniature of an elven ship, an elven gown that seems to be made of cloth-of-platinum with delicate branch-like accents of red coral, a polished granite goblet, two arcane scrolls... *breathe*

Tathi:<font color="#9933FF">Tathi concentrates on those auras. Any signs of a trap?

GM:<font color="#000000">A teal potion with a slightly fishy smell, another teal potion that smells like root beer, a bright orange potion that smells like cinnamon, a wand topped with three brilliantly-colored (if mismatched) gems, a bag of chestnuts, a bottle of honey, a bottle of olive oil, eleven clay pitchers, a set of manacles, a small blue glass rod, and a small magnet.

GM:<font color="#000000">No signs of traps!

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;..&gt;What the...&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Tathi, I thought you said there were six magic traces here?&quot;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Probably in de loot.&quot;

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Be back in a few -- actually, while I'm thinking of it, I think I'm going to run up the hill to get some water while I'm up.

Tathi:<font color="#9933FF">&quot;Correct. Why?&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Regardless, she said there are six stones ,all in altars.&quot;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Hy see a vand, zum potions...&quot;

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">Alright.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;....well, shit, wrong door.&quot;

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">Meanwhile I have an image I am preparing for everyone.

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Tree potions, und tvo skrolls. Dat's six.&quot;

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Magic's on the potions, the wand, and the scrolls, yes.

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Therefore, it's most likely that the &quot;hammer and stone shall forge the crown&quot; referred to the crowned slot, like I told you before.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Okay, I'm going to see if I can find the opening to the moldy shelf, but I won't open it until the rest of you are ready. Brave any possible traps and grab the stuff or don't, I don't particularly care, but whatever you do, make it quick. Must keep moving.&quot;

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">http://s2.postimage.org/bgwlswjw9/mog.jpg

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">This is how long it has been since I parsed loot.

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">Loot get!

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">That's a lot of loot. :O

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt moves over to the moldy shelf and starts looking for any similar opening mechanism first, and if he doesn't find something similar, looks for any different way to open the shelf.

VAE:<font color="#000000">Holy carp

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">Loot loot loot.

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">:B

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">As long as the DM is off attending RL, I'm going to cook something a little more filling.

Gamal-Junayd:<font color="#000000">food. better than loot.

Glitch:<font color="#000000">...goddamn. That's as long or longer than the loot list we once dedicated an entire minisession to sorting out and distributing amongst the party. O.O

Glitch:<font color="#000000">Re: the loot screenshot.

Glitch:<font color="#000000">we're gonna have to do that again. :B

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">Let's not.

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">And say we did.

Glitch:<font color="#000000">well then no one's gonna get anything if not everyone get the list and no one can work out who claims what!

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">Well, that's the handy thing about selling at full market price.

Glitch:<font color="#000000">....mreh okay. -3-

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">If you really want something on the list, you can just take your GP share and say you have it.

Glitch:<font color="#000000">Goodpoint.

Glitch:<font color="#000000">We'll have to be in a location where we -can- convert the loot to cash at least, though. -maybe- Yoriver's big enough that we can do that once the devils are gone...

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">It's only if someone wants something for using it right now that we would be worried about handling values.

Glitch:<font color="#000000">(I don't think Lia's ever quoted an exact size for Yoriver. We keep waffling between calling it a town and a city)

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">And frankly, none of us are nazi about GP. Hell, probably me most of all. And I still wouldn't care about GP just lost by people taking and using battlefield loot before cuts.

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">So it's not much of a concern.

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">In fact.

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">I noticed something interesting.

Glitch:<font color="#000000">--!!! No way.

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">Shush.

Glitch:<font color="#000000">There's actually a Phylactery of Faithfulness in that list??

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">I noticed all of you are terrible at spending.

Glitch:<font color="#000000">(no, not you.)

VAE:<font color="#000000">I am

VAE:<font color="#000000">I admit it

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">How so? :.

VAE:<font color="#000000">Hell, it has grown into an IC sort of thing

Gamal-Junayd:<font color="#000000">maybe the people who aren't bad get double shares? . &gt;.&gt;

VAE:<font color="#000000">Remember? Miron wondering how Tom could spend the cash so fast

Glitch:<font color="#000000">I believe it was brought up recently that Miron could really do with a Phylactery of Faithfulness. :B

VAE:<font color="#000000">and lending him

<font color="#0000ff">Dr. Hatari is disconnected.

</i><font color="#0000ff">Dr. Hatari is disconnected.

</i>Glitch:<font color="#000000">...

<font color="#0000ff">Dr. Hatari has connected.

</i>Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">Annoying random disrupt.

VAE:<font color="#000000">Except. .. he isn't a cleric. He has not got a connection to any deity

Glitch:<font color="#000000">Shall I whisper Dr Hatari?

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">Glitch: (no, not you.) Dr. Hatari: Oh. Carry on if you're not picking nits, then. :B VAE: I am VAE: I admit it Shankfang the Deffrider: How so? :. VAE: Hell, it has grown into an IC sort of thing

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">Anyways.

Glitch:<font color="#000000">Danman; it's not just for clerics.

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">The point I was about to make was that despite half the party being terrible at spending

Ghostwish:<font color="#9933FF">I know I don't know books as well as I do, so I often don't optimize my gear. But, also? It's not my drive to do so. GP can be spent on much more interesting things than stat points. But, if someone's got a suggestion for gear, I'm open to the suggestion. But NOT to their character buying an item and expecting my character to incorporate it. XP

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">We had people all over claiming the ready-to-go obvious upgrade loot.

Gamal-Junayd:<font color="#000000">maybe the people who aren't bad at spending should get double shares? . &gt;.&gt;

VAE:<font color="#000000">From what I know, it's to allow divine spellcasters to see how something will affect their standing with the deity

VAE:<font color="#000000">Also railock, fuck you

VAE:<font color="#000000">:3

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">I tried that in Eberron.

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">It just destroyed the party balance. XP

* VAE fights for his shares that will sit in his inventory

VAE:<font color="#000000">LIKE A FUCKING LION

Meany:<font color="#660033">You are now picturing a lynx.

Meany:<font color="#660033">In a lion custome.

Meany:<font color="#660033">costume I mean.

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">Anyways. It was just an observation that caught my interest.

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">The difference between &quot;Here is some money I can do ??? with. Oh well.&quot; And &quot;Oh hey here are some immediate obvious upgrades pre-picked by circumstance I could use those.&quot;

VAE:<font color="#000000">yeah. I .. . tend to go for the second

Teeny Rin:<font color="#FF0000">In other words you're lazy. *bricked away!*

VAE:<font color="#000000">Because with money, it's always &quot;this could be useful at some point later.&quot;

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">Gamer syndrome hoarding. XP

VAE:<font color="#000000">it's .. quite often the same with spells - I noticed in BG. I'd always conserve spell slots as far as possible. yes

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;I NEED TO SAVE THESE MISSILES I MIGHT NEED THEM LATER.&quot; &quot;BUT THIS IS MOTHER BRAIN!&quot;

VAE:<font color="#000000">And for record, I won BG with an obscene amount of unspent cash :3

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">I at least have a legit reason for hoarding my gold. Strongholds take 100s of 1,000s of golds to make. :B

VAE:<font color="#000000">And yes. That bit above characterises me entirely

Vonain (Goldeneye):<font color="#000000">I spent most of my golds.

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">Well as long as you do something with it and don't just Alex it away into paperwork destruction I don't care. :B

Meany:<font color="#660033">I don't.

VAE:<font color="#000000">Alex it away?

Meany:<font color="#660033">I just suck at mechanical character design.

* Meany sobs.

Glitch:<font color="#000000">Dr. Hatari: &quot;I NEED TO SAVE THESE MISSILES I MIGHT NEED THEM LATER.&quot; &quot;BUT THIS IS MOTHER BRAIN!&quot;

Glitch:<font color="#000000">.....

Glitch:<font color="#000000">but yes, I am very guilty of that. ^^;

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">Get wealth, do nothing with it, leave game.

VAE:<font color="#000000">Heh.

* Glitch recalls a particularly striking KOTOR runthrough.

VAE:<font color="#000000">Tech, what's worst, you are guilty of that in strategies

Meany:<font color="#660033">http://i704.photobucket.com/albums/ww46/JennyOwnsBrielle/315620-20animated_gif20tagme20tears20waterfall.gif

Glitch:<font color="#000000">Got to the end. Fighting Malak. &quot;Aaaaugh he's so strong I can't destry his self-heal pods hast enough...&quot;

Glitch:<font color="#000000">*checks inventory*

VAE:<font color="#000000">Like, in strategy games, unspent resources are a sign saying YOU&quot;RE DOING IT WRONG

Glitch:<font color="#000000">*has 50 of all the statbooster adrenal injections.*

Glitch:<font color="#000000">&quot;WELL THEN.&quot;

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">*snrk*

Glitch:<font color="#000000">*injected ALL THE ADRENALS.*

VAE:<font color="#000000">ahaaha

Glitch:<font color="#000000">&quot;OH MY GOD I AM A GOD AHAHAHAH.&quot;

Meany:<font color="#660033">So.

Meany:<font color="#660033">You defeated your ultimate enemy.

Meany:<font color="#660033">By tweaking on cocaine.

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">This has happened to all of us.

Glitch:<font color="#000000">Meany; Yes. :B

VAE:<font color="#000000">hmm

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">In Fallout: NV, I got to a massive battle versus the entire Legion.

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">I had Otto eat like 30,000 pills.

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">http://phuzzycomics.monicaray.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/2012-08-06-Fallout-Rainbows.png

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">^

Glitch:<font color="#000000">Yep, that. :B

Meany:<font color="#660033">Q-bat approves of this.

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">That could be our secret anti-ship weapon.

Glitch:<font color="#000000">Eisen hopped up on every injection stim at once? :B

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">The Excuse just fires a single round at an enemy bridge. It's a hull-breaching boarding pod for one person.

Meany:<font color="#660033">Elvis.

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">Yes

</i><font color="#FF0000">. Rainbow-eyes Eisen shot up with his bodyweight in drugs.

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">I just don't really -have- anything I'd be spending money on right now beyond Dex and weapon upgrades.

Glitch:<font color="#000000">(incidentally, between d20 Future and d20 Future Tech, there are a number of Chemical Enhancers.)

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">I'm pretty sure something horrible would happen. Like we would just spawn an Eye of Terror right there.

Meany:<font color="#660033">How about teleportation items?

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">Or the ship would sproud tentacles.

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">*t

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">I mean, I sit in the back of the group. Ringe of protection and amulets of natural armor and all that don't do me much good if I'm not up in the front.

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">And I'm already at the point where further dex and weapon upgrades are ridiculously expensive. =3=

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">Defense is never a bad investment.

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">Well, you could diversify your tools.

Meany:<font color="#660033">Let us look at the Sniper, whose functions are are directly quoting.

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">What if you get disarmed some day? Or we need to fight 100 mooks?

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">If I get disarmed, I have a masterwork axe.

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">If we need to fight 100 mooks, then my gun is my best weapon. :P

Meany:<font color="#660033">That means you are vulnerable to anything that gets up in your face, can't last long in a fight if it comes to that, are a smidge overspecialized, and are very unlikely to earn Credit To Team cookies.

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">Your gun is a crap weapon versus 100 mooks, you're the biggest steampunk weapons tech guy in the group.

Meany:<font color="#660033">Btw, someone give Tom his Credit to Team cookie for the day.

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">Get another attack. =3=

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">Crap weapon my ass!

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">It don't cleave.

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">I do over 4d6 damage with each shot, and I make three attacks per round!

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">I'm suggesting explosions.

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">I'm working on that!

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">The enchantment is just ridiculously expensive.

* Dr. Hatari facepalms.

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">I mean a separate exploding weapon.

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">Instead of one pistol to rule them all.

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">I don't want to revisit that headache. =3=

* Ghostwish checks in. Nope, greedverse still here.

* Ghostwish leaves, comes back when Akellon has resumed.

Glitch:<font color="#000000">From d20 Future; Antitox (cure any poison in a few rounds). Boost (+4 str, +2 ref, +10 speed, debuff afterwards). Neutrad (cure radiation sickness). Sporekill (cure any disease in a few rounds). Biocort (x2 healing rate). From d20 Future Tech; Equalize (+2 fort vs hot/cold weather). Prolong (keep fighting in negative hitpoints). Energize (gain temp hitpoints). Withstand (convert all lethal damage to nonlethal, debuff after). Mutagenic Inducer (temporary Mutation power).

Glitch:<font color="#000000">And that's just core stuff, Rail would probably allow all kinds of crazy custom stoofs. :B

Glitch:<font color="#000000">testing

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Yo.

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">jkh

Liatai:<font color="#000000">I'm back, too. :B

Glitch:<font color="#000000">oh, okay

VAE:<font color="#000000">wb

Gamal-Junayd:<font color="#000000">yeah!

Liatai:<font color="#000000">My poor relatives. I come up to their house, and none of their outside lights are on, but it's light inside. So I figure I'll go up and knock on the door.

Liatai:<font color="#000000">... And then I remember I'm wearing my black winter coat with my hood over my head, and my black leather gloves...

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">DangerLia.

VAE:<font color="#000000">hahaha

VAE:<font color="#000000">Darth Lia the knockerer

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Cue uncle coming up the hill with their Lab and Great Dane mix (who is the friendliest dog ever, but HUGE) to check out who it was. XD

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Me: &quot;-- Hi! ^^;;; .... I brought cookies! ^^;;;;;;;;&quot;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">Lia you so silly. x3

Meany:<font color="#660033">&quot;I will forgive you for cookies.&quot;

Meany:<font color="#660033">&quot;THIS TIME.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">Lootin' lootin' lootin'.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">Golly this sure is taking a while. :9

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Alas, the cookies were not accepted. Quoth the aunt: &quot;Thank you, we love them, we're on a diet. ^^; They'd be gone in an hour. Take them with you, please.&quot; :B

VAE:<font color="#000000">you know

VAE:<font color="#000000">This reminds me of Miron going to visit Inquisitor Geas

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">I'd like some Liacookies...

VAE:<font color="#000000">He ended up worse

Liatai:<font color="#000000">They were boxed cookies. I didn't have the water to make cookies with. :B

Teeny Rin:<font color="#FF0000">In Liatown, a glass of water and a bullet is ''worth a life. =3=''

GM:<font color="#000000">Who's here?

Ghostwish:<font color="#9933FF">Hewwo. :3

Glitch:<font color="#000000">Present!

Gamal-Junayd:<font color="#000000">no one

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">Yar!

* VAE mrow

GM:<font color="#000000">...

GM:<font color="#000000">... Out of curiosity does anyone read the descriptions of the art items? :B *brick'd!!*

VAE:<font color="#000000">what art items? *brick'd*

Glitch:<font color="#000000">surrrrre, why not. :B

GM:<font color="#000000">Anyway, Gnogglebolt, you find a button in much the same place as the last shelf, once you brush aside some mushrooms.

Teeny Rin:<font color="#FF0000">I strip the loot down to its GP number like a machine threshing wheat.

Ghostwish:<font color="#9933FF">Sure. :3

Teeny Rin:<font color="#FF0000">I DISCARD THAT FRIVOLOUS IMMERSION TEXT LIKE THE WRAPPER IT IS.

Tathi:<font color="#9933FF">&quot;RIght, grab it and let's go. We have another aura to our east.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">With button found, Gnogglebolt steps back and waits for the others. &quot;C'mon guys, we gotta keep moving...&quot;

* Teeny Rin is piano'd.

Gamal-Junayd:<font color="#000000">Yes. nevr know hen you want to keep a trophy for the meuseum

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Someday you're going to lose a plot hook in there! XP *brick'd*

Gamal-Junayd:<font color="#000000">&quot;Open it up then.&quot;

Glitch:<font color="#000000">Indeed! I -found- a plothook in there once, that wasn't even intended :U

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Seriously I try to weave stories into the loot's art items. :B That's why I asked.

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">Sszeyl holds up the dragonmask.

Vonain (Goldeneye):<font color="#000000">Vonain takes a glance at them as they get nabbed, at least.

Sszeyl whispers: One of your former enemies, perhaps?

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">I will not be The Dragonman.

Vonain (Goldeneye):<font color="#000000">Go ahead, spam me. :U whiper if no one else wants it.

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">I will not be The Dragonman.

You whisper to Meany: Silence.

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">I will not be the hero Akellon deserves, but doesn't want.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt points out the hidden button to Gamal, and leaves him to open it when everyone's formed up.

Liatai:<font color="#000000">XD

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">Tom is only concerned with the shadows. Mortal threat to the lives of his friends has been found. He's not going to relent. Evil scanning sight going about the place as he stands rear guard.

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">I will not be the dark night.

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">knight*, whatevs.

Gamal-Junayd:<font color="#000000">yeah give us the list.

Liatai:<font color="#000000">I already did. XP

VAE:<font color="#000000">yep, she did

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;...More mushrooms.&quot; :B

Glitch:<font color="#000000">(actually, Batman was the hero needed, but not the one deserved. :B It was Harvy who was the hero deserved, but not needed.)

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">Harvestin'.

VAE:<font color="#000000">I remember reading &quot;potion with fishy smell&quot; and snerking about how that might well have been found on the dead summoner

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;Altar.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;Religious experts, in here.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Is there?&quot;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Ja.&quot;

GM:<font color="#000000">The back room has a violet glow from all the fungi.

Gamal-Junayd:<font color="#000000">ah, I had missed it, sorry.

Miron:<font color="#000000">The inquisitor steps over the fungi, and approaches.

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">Sszeyl stores many slices of fungi in his bag.

Gamal-Junayd:<font color="#000000">&quot;All of these are safe fungi right?&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">Taking 20 on search for 27 as he examines it thoroughly

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;I'll add these to the farm back home.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;I fucking hope so.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt looks in. &quot;...Okay, that's the next stone-box. Open it up and get the stone if you please, Swallowtail?&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;The floruescent dyes resulting from them might sell well.&quot;

Aelian:<font color="#9933FF">Aelian has a nice long look at one of the fungi. Knowledge Nature to learn what species he is looking at&gt;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;...Well, the purple one outside was safe...but Altonor said -some- purple fungus tries to eat back...&quot;

Swallowtail:<font color="#FF0000">Gnogglebolt is just objectively better in every way at that kind of task.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;And that only a drow or someone familiar with nature could tell the difference.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">I don't have Open Lock. :B

You whisper to Dr. Hatari: Back up north... The group has dodged the other rolling stone... to come to the end of the passageway. The remains of a large earth elemental can be seen thrown against the wall, in shambles.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">It's the one skill I -don't- have.

You whisper to Ghostwish: Back up north... The group has dodged the other rolling stone... to come to the end of the passageway. The remains of a large earth elemental can be seen thrown against the wall, in shambles.

Swallowtail:<font color="#FF0000">Oh. I had gotten too used to Pathfinder skills.

Swallowtail:<font color="#FF0000">I forgot it existed. :B

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&gt;:P

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Fuck.. that's not something I wanted to hear.&quot; *squirms*

Firaira whispers: &quot;What manner of madness is this? Devils do not summon elementals, last I checked..&quot;

You whisper to Ghostwish: It's an edible violet fungus often cultivated by the drow.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Yeah. Disable Device, many Crafts, and Search here. No open lock. :P

VAE:<font color="#000000">Anyways, did anything came out of searching through the altar?

You whisper to Dr. Hatari: Firaira whispers: &quot;What manner of madness is this? Devils do not summon elementals, last I checked..&quot;

Liatai:<font color="#000000">A cabinet doorknob on the outside.

Gamal-Junayd:<font color="#000000">&quot;Well then, gnoggle, can you see if you can find the other buttons to open the other two? the assassins aren't here so..best we find them.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;This one seems simple enough. A doorknob, and nothing else. Swallowtail, you are free to do your duty here.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">Tom frowns at the side room. &quot;...&quot;

You whisper to Dr. Hatari: &quot;Duergar do... but do not often leave them dead for decoration.&quot;

You whisper to Ghostwish: &quot;Duergar do... but do not often leave them dead for decoration.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot; We're still just under the city.. I don't know why folks are so eager to eat random mushrooms..&quot; ^^;;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;I have no fucking clue either, Tom.&quot;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Bekause dey are not random mushrooms. Sszeyl knows vat dey are.&quot; :P

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;I'll check the cold shelf next. The big one probably goes to where the other group is.&quot;

Firaira whispers: &quot;Strange. Then what of the altar?&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Alright.&quot;

Swallowtail:<font color="#000000">&quot;It is unlocked... no traps.&quot; Swallowtail opens it... and a click is heard from behind the altar. A panel slides aside, and a stone sphere plops out into the inside of the altar cabinet. This one has an odd squarish shape on it... Maybe a book? Duergar aren't really artists.

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Book, would do.&quot;

Tathi:<font color="#9933FF">Tathi peers at the altars.. Is there a chance of rolling a knowledge religion to figure out just what the duergar used these for?

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;There was a slot like that on the statue.&quot;

You whisper to Dr. Hatari: Firaira whispers: &quot;Strange. Then what of the altar?&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Regardless, let's get the fuck out of here. The other group's probably waiting on us.&quot;

Gamal-Junayd:<font color="#000000">&quot;Open the next one up then

Miron: <font color="#000000">&quot;Or they crossed path with the assassins. Which is good no matter who wins.

<font color="#000000">&quot;

Tomiko Lazarus whispers: Tomi simply moves with the others, keeping quiet and glaring about at the hallway warily.

Vonain (Goldeneye):<font color="#000000">&quot;Book-stone? Yep, that's the one that was predicted for this room..which means the others should b finding the pebble-stone. Or the bean-stone. Whatever it is.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Anyway, there is presumably another similar button on the cold shelf?

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;The stone stone. Be glad it's not a stone stone stone.&quot;&quot;

You whisper to Ghostwish: You can try, but I'll save you a roll. Just a small symbol of Laduguer on each one. They seem more mechanisms than altars.

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Duergar don't have any more imagination than they got artisan skill.&quot;

Tathi:<font color="#9933FF">&quot;Huh. Those aren't even really altars. They're more level levels, or platforms. They serve a different purpose than religion.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Like we didn't know that, wise-arse.&quot;

You whisper to Dr. Hatari: As the group steps forward, there's a click, and you hear a grinding sound... and then the door of the altar pops open to reveal...

You whisper to Ghostwish: As the group steps forward, there's a click, and you hear a grinding sound... and then the door of the altar pops open to reveal...

You whisper to Dr. Hatari: ... Nothing. The altar is empty.

You whisper to Ghostwish: ... Nothing. The altar is empty.

Tomiko Lazarus whispers: &quot;Son of a bitch..&quot; &gt;:|

You whisper to Ghostwish: Tomiko Lazarus whispers: &quot;Son of a bitch..&quot; &gt;:|

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;What will you reveal next, that the duergar didn't use them to bathe, either?&quot;

Firaira whispers: &quot;That.. That would suggest that we are not alone here.&quot;

You whisper to Dr. Hatari: &quot;The hell? Are we missing something?&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Okay, enough.&quot; He sighs.

You whisper to Ghostwish: &quot;The hell? Are we missing something?&quot;

You whisper to Dr. Hatari: Firaira whispers: &quot;That.. That would suggest that we are not alone here.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;This is why it's a headache to get through this. Enough with the sniping.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;There are assassins here.&quot;

* Thomas Lazarus just gestures to the western shelf. &quot;Let's finish up.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;C'mon guys, I almost got this one open. Unless the assassins went through the other bookshelf and met our allies, they've gotta be through this one.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;There were assassins here. I doubt they showed up because of us, though.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Otherwise, they have done this in the stupidest manner possible.&quot;

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Sorry, dog attack

Tomiko Lazarus whispers: &quot;..It's not even made of adamantine!!&quot;

You whisper to Ghostwish: Tomiko Lazarus whispers: &quot;..It's not even made of adamantine!!&quot;

Tomiko Lazarus whispers: &quot;..What?&quot; |D

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">Hi Shadow!

You whisper to Ghostwish: Tomiko Lazarus whispers: &quot;..What?&quot; |D

Firaira whispers: She smirks and rolls her eyes. &quot;Naught be glory and loot for this one..&quot;

You whisper to Dr. Hatari: Firaira whispers: She smirks and rolls her eyes. &quot;Naught be glory and loot for this one..&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Know what? Someone should go check whether the other group is done already. Looting this place, while certainly a worthwhile task, isn't why we're here.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;We got the stone from this section, after all.&quot;

GM:<font color="#000000">The shelf slides aside as easily as the last two -- but BRRR! Gnogglebolt, Sszeyl, you take &#171; &#160;3d6 = 11&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187; nonlethal cold damage, and you'll continue to take it each round you stand in that spot. There's some kind of brown fungal fuzz growing on the wall.

Gamal-Junayd:<font color="#000000">&quot;sounds like you just voluntered to do so&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Yeeeeg!&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt hops back.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;We'll see them when we see them. Sending out lone individuals after confirming we have professional assassins no more than 30 minutes ahead of us is not something we ought to try.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">*sigh* &quot;Allright, you fucks.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Yow that's cold!&quot;

GM:<font color="#000000">Of that note, does anyone have fire out?

Gamal-Junayd:<font color="#000000">&quot;Wait, wait..brown fungus...wasn't that one of the danger shrooms?!&quot;

Tathi:<font color="#9933FF">Everlasting torch. Phew.

Aelian:<font color="#9933FF">None here.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Yes. I've seen this before. In Pamela's castle.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;...Ah! Yeah, it was.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Altonor said...&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;It was. And Tom. . . the assassins most likely give zero fucks about us.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Shoot cold at the cold brown slimes?&quot;

Gamal-Junayd:<font color="#000000">&quot;Tathi, got any magic cold?&quot;

Swallowtail:<font color="#000000">&quot;Don't.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot; I don't pretend to know how that works, but that's what I heard him say...&quot;

* Thomas Lazarus gives Miron a squint. &quot;..I don't care about 'most likely'.&quot;

Swallowtail:<font color="#000000">&quot;Let us leave it alone. We need cold for the circle.&quot;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Mmm, dat is quite chilly.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Anyways.. it's just a heat-stealing mushroom. Unless there's something important in there..&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;When I say most likely, I mean It's about as likely as me becoming a drider.&quot;

You whisper to Dr. Hatari: After some more searching the altar... &quot;Well, I sure don't see anything. Let's head back. Maybe the trap-finders of the Guardians'll have a clue.&quot;

You whisper to Ghostwish: After some more searching the altar... &quot;Well, I sure don't see anything. Let's head back. Maybe the trap-finders of the Guardians'll have a clue.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;The assassins are probably behind here. And we don't know what else might be behind here. I want to get this taken care of, once and for all.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Excuse me, but why do you think assassins we know are contracted to kill us showing up somehow implies they don't care about crossing paths with us?&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Tathi, can you do something about the brown mold here?&quot;

Tathi:<font color="#9933FF">&quot;What, you mean burn it?&quot;

You whisper to Dr. Hatari: &quot; If that gnome keeps his talk up I reserve the right to break his stupid nose. &quot; Wand-thwap.

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Because they'd have to know we were off to here. And if that was the case, they had a thousand opportunities to strike, ones that didn't involve mopping up a roomful of devils and their summoners.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;No, Altonor said shoot cold at the cold brown fungus.&quot;

You whisper to Ghostwish: &quot; If that gnome keeps his talk up I reserve the right to break his stupid nose. &quot; Wand-thwap.

Liatai:<font color="#000000">&#171; &#160;1d8+1 = 1 + 1 = 2&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187;

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Carry on. :3

Tomiko Lazarus whispers: &quot;He's just some sour asshole. Be bigger than him.&quot;

You whisper to Ghostwish: Tomiko Lazarus whispers: &quot;He's just some sour asshole. Be bigger than him.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">Question.

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Assassins can have more contracts than one, after all.&quot;

Firaira whispers: Masabel probably has the sense to warn Firaria first, so no frazzled elf this time. ;)

You whisper to Ghostwish: Nope, that was Altonor thwapping Masabel with the wand. :B

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">Why is ice magic so common in tundra regions? It isn't -useful- against of the local fauna or flora, which all have Resist Cold (x) or improved fort saves against cold.

Tathi:<font color="#9933FF">&quot;Let's see.. Yes, actually, I can.&quot; She says, and zaps the mold with a ray of frost!

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">Wouldn't fire be more common?

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;I am not going to construct some scenario in my head based on hunches and assumptions. I know they're around here somewhere, and they're dangerous enemies.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Don't dismiss them.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;As it is however, we are wasting our time, and the other group doesn't know about them, either&quot;

GM:<font color="#000000">The fungus shrivels up.

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;As much as I'd like to see most of them dead, if it happened, it'd be a serious blowback in the present situation.&quot;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Hokay!&quot;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Let's see vat ve hef in here!&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Excellent!&quot; Gnogglebolt re-approaches and presses the button to get the shelf to slide away.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Then jumps back as soon as he does so.

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Therefore, returning to the main hall to check on them, something that involves crossing two halls, seems like the most sensible ...&quot;

GM:<font color="#000000">It slides aside... to reveal a blank wall.

Miron:<font color="#000000">He is, however--WHAT THE FRIG?

VAE:<font color="#000000">what

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">wut

Glitch:<font color="#000000">....

VAE:<font color="#000000">who stole my token

Glitch:<font color="#000000">how did I get ownership of Miron?

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;...Vell, dat vas anti-klimaktik.

Liatai:<font color="#000000">?

Tathi:<font color="#9933FF">&quot;No way.&quot; Tathi says, and approaches the wall, looking carefully. Elven sense ping?

Liatai:<font color="#000000">No pings.

Miron:<font color="#9933FF">Miron -rips ass-.

VAE:<font color="#000000">easy

VAE:<font color="#000000">he had ownership set to all players

VAE:<font color="#000000">rather than me

VAE:<font color="#000000">fixed it

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Fixed. Yep.

Tathi:<font color="#9933FF">&quot;Well. It's a wall allright.&quot; She says, turning around. &quot;Dead end here.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Fine, then. Now we can go back.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt is staring at the blank wall.

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Man, she's whining. BRB, sacred canine duty.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot; Okay, that's really weird.&quot;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Hmm.&quot;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Oh vell. Nekst!&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Okay, lets head back to the center and try and meet up with the others.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;No, maybe we should waste more time in this fucking duergar hellhole.&quot;

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">... I have to ask, out of curiosity. Doesn't Shadow whine 24/7? It sounds like it. :B *bricked*

RAM:<font color="#990000">Not tha much. :B

* Dr. Hatari has never owned a dog that whined for attention. It's a strange phenomenon to him.

RAM:<font color="#990000">Just when she wants something.

Glitch:<font color="#000000">...You know, it just occurred to me that any newcomers to our group might be able to infer from context 'sacred canine duty', I think only very few of us even remember how that started. :B

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">To any member of a family that owns a dog, it should be obvious.

Glitch:<font color="#000000">Well, yes.

Tathi: <font color="#9933ff">(( our entire gaming group pretty much has a list of memes all to itself. ))

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">Since no one else has the sacred duty but us, obviously. :B

Glitch:<font color="#000000">But do you remember how that started? It was originally much longer...oooh, I don't think you -were- around for it, Hatari...

Glitch:<font color="#000000">ah, yep, that was mostly it. Back then it was &quot;Why am I the only one in the family who can take care of the dog? I must be, like, the Templar of Canis Domesticus.&quot;

Glitch:<font color="#000000">Eventually shortened to &quot;sacred canine duty&quot; :B

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">..Yes, like I said. Its intuitive from the first occurance what it means.

Glitch:<font color="#000000">I was just remembering the original phrase that -wouldn't- be obvious. :B

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">Anyone who isn't the laziest member of the household would get it instantly. :B

Meany:<font color="#660033">A dragon appears.

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Heh, more like she's an old dog and knows whining gets attention. ^^;

Liatai:<font color="#000000">This time it was just a cat on the back porch. =w=;

Edaric:<font color="#000000">&quot;Should we do anything with these bodies?&quot;

Swallowtail:<font color="#000000">&quot;On way out. We do not have time.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Maybe if things were different. But I'm afraid too much is riding on our shoulders for us to attend to the dead right now. Another day.&quot;

Tathi:<font color="#9933FF">&quot;Honestly, we don't have time. Burial services can come later.&quot;

Meany:<font color="#660033">They should have...

Meany:<font color="#660033">*shades*

You whisper to Ghostwish: Since the northern group is much less argument-distracted, they'll get back to the nexus long before the Guardians. :B

Meany:<font color="#660033">Died another day.

Meany:<font color="#660033">*brick'd*

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Sadly, we cannot do anything for them.&quot;

You whisper to Dr. Hatari: Since the northern group is much less argument-distracted, they'll get back to the nexus long before the Guardians. :B

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Okay, let's get back to the statue, go go go.&quot;

Tomiko Lazarus whispers: Which is why I stuck with them. =w=

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Their physical shells are the least of worries regardless, if they were possessed.&quot;

Tathi whispers: &quot;Where are they? I'm going to look for them...&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Now, let's move the fuck out.&quot;

GM:<font color="#000000">Exodus go!

Masabel:<font color="#000000">&quot;... I think I hear them coming.&quot;

* Tomiko Lazarus peers over, arms folded.

Firaira:<font color="#9933FF">The high elf looks over. &quot;Anything?&quot;

Tomiko Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Have fun?&quot;

Altonor:<font color="#000000">&quot;All right over there?&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">Sszeyl chews on some purple fungus.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;...You guys didn't meet any cloaked drow with a flesh golem, did you?&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;Was good.&quot;

Masabel:<font color="#000000">&quot;You found their food stores? Sweet.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;We're alright. We found a lot of corpses, though. Not killed by us. The dead told us some Helvirahel assassins we know got here first. About a half hour, judging by the bodies..&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;I talked with a dead summoner.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;It's bad news.&quot; He frowns.

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;They got killed by the assassins.. Tom's got it.&quot;

* Viceth shakes his head -- and then the two elder drow's eyes widen significantly.

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;I have no fucking idea why they are there, and the summoner neither.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;...Yep.&quot;

Viceth:<font color="#000000">&quot;Here, of all places?&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Helvirahel.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;A small band that's been after us for a long time.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;No, in candyland.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;It's just, this time, they got here before us.&quot;

Firaira:<font color="#9933FF">&quot;What kind of assassins!?&quot; The elf blurts, eyes wide.

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;I got it from the corpse of a sanctioned summoner. She described them.&quot;

Altonor:<font color="#000000">&quot;I've heard the story. Masabel, Vi --&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;I have no idea why they're ahead of us in here. But they've taken swings at us before.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;A flesh golem, probably&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;And a bunch of mages.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;One of them is a magical-constructor, and they have a flesh golem with them.&quot;

Viceth:<font color="#000000">&quot;On it.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;More than one's a mage, and one of them has a metal arm and a gold eye.&quot;

* Thomas Lazarus raises a brow slightly. &quot;...&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;More importantly.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Did you lot get the stone?&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;They were in the passageway we just came out of no more than half an hour ago.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Did you encounter any resistance?|

Tomiko Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Pfft. No.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;. . . No.&quot;

Tomiko Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;There were traps, and a broke elemental.&quot;

Tomiko Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;We found the altar..&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;...You didn't get the stone?&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Fuck you. Fuck me.&quot;

Tomiko Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;..But it's empty.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;....&quot;

Tomiko Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Someone hit it already.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt multiligual-curses.

Firaira:<font color="#9933FF">The high elf glances over at Viceth with a raised eyebrow. &quot;Why the disguise?&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;It must have been them.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;We've got to find them.&quot;

* Altonor 's armor is changing in appearance quickly, with a blank shield and looking like steel. Masabel is also searching her pockets for something.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Seems probable..&quot;

Firaira:<font color="#9933FF">&quot;Allright, but there's something amiss here. How does a bunch of bungling adventurers attract the attention of some of the most dangerous assassins ever?&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;SIX DICKS OF HEXTOR DOWN THEIR FUCKING NECKS AND OUT THEIR ARSES FUCK THIS SHIT...&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;We may argue..&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;But we're hardly bungling.&quot; &gt;:|

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;And they're here.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">To Fiaria; &quot;Because of Sszeyl.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;So let's just try to be on guard.&quot;

Altonor:<font color="#000000">&quot;If they're here -- Firaira, you should know. Vi does a lot of undercover work. They can't know he's here.&quot; He clanks the visor of his helm down, mostly obscuring his face. &quot;Hells, those rusties'll be trouble if they see any drow.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;They're after him for whatever reason, and so by extension, they're after us.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Who gives a fuck... This makes no sense. If they took it.. they must be trying to fucking open the way themselves.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;They've been dogging us for months, but we've stayed ahead of them until now.&quot;

Tomiko Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Or stop us more effectively than the devils could?&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Because otherwise they'd have ambushed us by one of the altars. Because we have to collect at each of them.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;Let's examine what we know.&quot;

Tomiko Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;..Because we are stopped. And fucked, if they left.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;I think you're missing the point, Miron. Tomiko's said their goal probably isn't to fight us.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Or stop us, true. In which case we're fucking fucked like a...&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;It's to impede us.&quot;

* Tomiko Lazarus snaps her fingers at Aelian.

Tomiko Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Hey.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;We are, seemingly, in a dead end hallway.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Tomi, you are precisely correct.&quot;

Aelian:<font color="#9933FF">&quot;Yes?&quot; Aelian asks.

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;The one door is now closed.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;And there is only one way out; the way we came.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;And if they're here to impede us, then they're working with the Yoriver conspiracy somehow.&quot;

Viceth:<font color="#000000">&quot;Did you find any additional information? Did this... interrogation of a dead summoner yield anything?&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;If they left, with one of the stones, we're fucked unless we can find them, or unless we can trigger the shit to return back ,which would have to....&quot;

Tomiko Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Don't suppose you can figure who has tracked down this passage just before us..?&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;No fucking way.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;If I were them, I'd simply collapse the way we entered, and let us starve to death.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;The Yorivers might be diabolists, but even those have standards.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;By the way, if we are trapped in here, I motion we eat the gnomes first.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt shakes his head at Viceth.

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Why would they cooperate with a bunch of filthy drowish assassins, of all things?&quot;

* Thomas Lazarus eyerolls. &quot; I can summon food..&quot;

Aelian:<font color="#9933FF">&quot;I could try. Let me see.&quot; He says, and starts to look about. &quot;Pity Tavia isn't here.. she's a professional at this..&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;All the corpse told us was that they're here and they've got their flesh golem with them.&quot;

Aelian:<font color="#9933FF">&#171; &#160;1d20+14 = 3 + 14 = 17&#160; <font color="#9933FF">&#187; survival!

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;And they used a lot of lighting.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Regardless. Let us collect the last stone.&quot;

Swallowtail:<font color="#000000">&quot;Six stones, seven is the magic number... was very strange.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Yeah, there's one more branch to the south.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Maybe we can figure out how to open the piece of duergar fuck with five.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt looks to Swallowtail. &quot;I think I figured that out, by the way, Swallowtail.&quot;

Masabel:<font color="#000000">&quot;And the one north, remember.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Let's fucking move then.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Let's look there. Maybe we'll run into them. There were fiends and soldiers in here when we arrived, afterall.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;The codebook said 'hammer and stone shall forge the crown.'.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;We have the hammer-sphere.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Gnogglebolt I mentioned this an hour ago.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;...and the missing sphere is the stone one.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;They took the one we needed to get the crown-sphere.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Before we even had the fucking. .. &quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;They could have taken any one of them,&quot;

Edaric:<font color="#000000">&quot;But wait, they said there are six stones, not seven, right?&quot; &gt;:.

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Either we can somehow do without it, or we are fucked.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Yes.Six.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Now likely five.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;There's seven sphere-slots in the statue, Edaric.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;The center one is a crown.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Come on, we can puzzle over the puzzle more when we know the entire fortress is empty of enemies.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Regardless, let's move off our arses, because no matter who the Lolth's cunt drippings work for, we won't gain anything by standing here.&quot;

Edaric:<font color="#000000">&quot;Well, yeah, I know that -- never mind, I can't think of how to word it. Tom's right.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Tom is right. Let's fucking get the ones they didn't fucking take. &quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Right. Moving on. To the south, to investigate the uninvestiagted branch. I still want to hold off ringing that gong for as long as possible.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;You sure have been dropping more fuckwords than usual, brother. Watch your blood pressure..&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Then think with your feet and fucking move.&quot;

* Tomiko Lazarus smirks.

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;. . . &quot;{

Altonor:<font color="#000000">&quot;We'll head south. Your group can head north -- we know that area's safe, but there might be a trap. Your group has all the trap experts.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">The inquisitor is rather red-faced and sweaty.

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Fine. Make it quick.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Very well.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;...Alright, then. Ring the gong it is. And announce to the entire fortress that we're here...&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;To whom?&quot;

Tomiko Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">Idly, as they walk, to the Drow. &quot;Tell me what Helvirahel assassins are.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;If the scum works for them, they know we're here.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Anything. Anything left that we haven't seen.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Maybe everything beneath the statue.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;If they don't, they have made enough noise already.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;The lord shall gaze on the truth...&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt points to the north door. &quot;Anyway, onward.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;I said it earlier.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Someone should examine the statue's eyes. Vonain perhaps.. but later.&quot;

GM:<font color="#000000">The DM moves you while you argue. *brick'd*

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">The only possible road to progress. =w=;

Tomiko Lazarus: <font color="#FF0000">Maybe I should join you guys full-time.. =w=

Vonain (Goldeneye):<font color="#000000">&quot;Anyway...as I said before, someone go ahead and ring the gong, I'll be standing over here.&quot;

* Thomas Lazarus folds his arms and frowns. &quot;..Back to this..&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">Feel free to, if you think it's such a wise idea

Vonain (Goldeneye):<font color="#000000">*someone brave

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;More like someone strong.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;The thing's almost bigger than me.&quot;

Vonain (Goldeneye):<font color="#000000">Vonain surreptitiously puts his greatsword behind him.

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Tom?&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Alright. Just be ready for nonsense.&quot;

* Thomas Lazarus heads over and grips the hammer up.

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;I'll watch for anything going wrong.&quot;

* Gamal-Junayd has weapons drawn, and is in position looking at both doors, checking them both constantly

* Swallowtail shelters behind a pillar, crossbow ready.

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Figured out what the pipes are for, Gnogglebolt?|&quot;

* Thomas Lazarus draws a breath and glances to everyone else briefly.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">When everyone looks situated and ready, he swings the hammer back, and strikes the gong!

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Some kind of delivery system like the forge-tablet is my guess.&quot;

GM:<font color="#000000">GONNNNNNNNNNG

* Thomas Lazarus grimaces.

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;What?&quot;

* Thomas Lazarus rubs his right ear. &quot;What?&quot;

Aelian:<font color="#9933FF">&quot;What in the world..&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt covers his sensitive gnome ears as the gong sounds.

* Thomas Lazarus rests the hammer head on the ground and peers at the altar. Does it appear to have done anything?

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Fuck me if I know.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;I've been never the one for cogworks.&quot;

RAM: <font color="#990000">&quot;Oh it vasn't dat loud.&quot;

<font color="#990000"> =3=

GM:<font color="#000000">The sound reverberates through the cavern. Nothing has changed at the altar, aside from the ringing noise.

Shankfang the Deffrider: <font color="#990000">&quot;Oh it vasn't dat loud.&quot;

<font color="#990000"> =3=

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;The inscription says &quot;time&quot; though.&quot;|

* Thomas Lazarus frowns!

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Maybe we'll have to wait.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Hm.. there must be more to it.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;....That didn't work? Ugh...&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;..Take a look around for any other clues?&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt approaches and starts inspecting the altar carefully. Taking 10 on a search; &#171; &#160;10+18 = 10 + 18 = 28&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187;, as well as a Knowledge Architecture &amp; Engineering &#171;  &#160;1d20+18 = 15 + 18 = 33&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187; to try and find any clues or hints as to how this works.

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Listen check, Gnogglebolt.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Does the altar have -any- apparent hinges or latches at all?

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Listen: &#171; &#160;1d20+2 = 1 + 2 = 3&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">NOPE.

Liatai:<font color="#000000">No apparent hinges or latches for the door -- it slides back, and is firmly stuck in the closed position.

<font color="#0000ff">Dr. Hatari is disconnected.

</i>Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Hmm.&quot;

<font color="#0000ff">Dr. Hatari has connected.

</i>Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;...Alright, it looks like this covering is supposed to slide off...but it won't budge.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;I don't know what's keeping it held fast.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;The last of the inscriptions did say &quot;the name of our lord shall open the door&quot;&quot;

* Thomas Lazarus sighs. &quot;Time.. and a gong..&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt looks back at Miron, then at the altar. &quot;What was the name of that duergar god? Lad-something?&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Laduguer.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;The god of toil.&quot;

Tathi:<font color="#9933FF">&quot;God of toil, I believe.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt holds his beath for a second after Miron says the name, watching the altar intently.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">*breath

GM:<font color="#000000">No change.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Damn.&quot;&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Hmm.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt then suddenly starts and looks at Thomas.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Time...and a gong?&quot;

* Thomas Lazarus looks dejected. &quot;I'm stumped.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Timekeeping! The hours!&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Keep hitting it!&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&#171; &#160;1d20+21 = 18 + 21 = 39&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187; Religion. Does Laduguer go by any other names?

Gamal-Junayd:<font color="#000000">&quot;He's a god of toil right? maybe you have to so some yoilsome task in his name.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Eh..?&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;That.. could be it.&quot;

Liatai:<font color="#000000">You'd know better than I would, VAE. :B

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;In Mazio, clock-towers sound out the hour of a day by ringing a bell for the number of hours past midnight or midday.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;The prayers of the duergar are repetitive and monotone.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;The simpler water-clocks around here do much the same thing.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;maybe you'll have to beat it, a number of times, a large number, .&quot;

* Thomas Lazarus looks at the hammer. &quot;..Well.. I suppose it's worth a shot. Nothing bad will happen from hitting it more, anyways. Other than long-term hearing damage.&quot; =w=;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;with a precise time in between.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Open your mouths, everyone.&quot;

Edaric:<font color="#000000">&quot;Whoa, whoa, whoa...&quot; ^^;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt lets his jaw slacken slightly and plugs his ears again.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Hm?&quot; He looks to Ed.

Edaric:<font color="#000000">Listen checks, all. &#171; &#160;1d20+11 = 2 + 11 = 13&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">Spot: &#171; &#160;1d20+5 = 3 + 5 = 8&#160; <font color="#FF0000">&#187; Listen: &#171;  &#160;1d20+5 = 4 + 5 = 9&#160; <font color="#FF0000">&#187;

Tathi:<font color="#9933FF">&#171; &#160;1d20+2+1 = 9 + 2 + 1 = 12&#160; <font color="#9933FF">&#187; listen!

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&#171; &#160;1d20 = 9&#160; <font color="#990000">&#187; WHAT?!

Swallowtail:<font color="#FF0000">Spot: &#171; &#160;1d20+3 = 19 + 3 = 22&#160; <font color="#FF0000">&#187; Listen: &#171;  &#160;1d20+4 = 4 + 4 = 8&#160; <font color="#FF0000">&#187;

Edaric:<font color="#000000">&quot;Sorry, thought I heard something.&quot;

Aelian:<font color="#9933FF">&#171; &#160;1d20+13 = 15 + 13 = 28&#160; <font color="#9933FF">&#187; listen!

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Listen again: &#171; &#160;1d20+2 = 4 + 2 = 6&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&#171; &#160;1d20+5 = 8 + 5 = 13&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187; Listen

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&#171; &#160;1d20+8 = 9 + 8 = 17&#160; <font color="#660033">&#187; Listen check!

* Gamal-Junayd opesn his mouth, and listens as well (Listen Check : &#171; &#160;1d20+1 = 20 + 1 = 21&#160;  &#187;)

Miron:<font color="#000000">&#171; &#160;1d20+3 = 3 + 3 = 6&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187; Spot

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">Someone at the door...

You whisper to Ghostwish: Aelian hears a ticking sound inside the altar, counting off seconds.

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">afk

Gamal-Junayd:<font color="#000000">ed hears the knock on hatari's door!

You whisper to Railock: Gamal hears a ticking sound inside the altar, counting off seconds.

Aelian:<font color="#9933FF">&quot;Yes.. the altar.. it's ticking.&quot;

VAE:<font color="#000000">Gamal's ears fall off

RAM:<font color="#990000">Listen check successful!

You whisper to Meany: Sszeyl hears a ticking sound inside the altar, counting off seconds.

Gamal-Junayd:<font color="#000000">&quot;Hmm..yeah. theres a ticking sound. could it a clock?&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;...Ticking?&quot;

VAE:<font color="#000000">Could it a clock?

VAE:<font color="#000000">No but a banana could.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;So, Duergar do know the mechanisms of clockwork.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Who the fuck would have said it.&quot;

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">It was my landlord.

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">Bearing home-fried fish.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt goes up to the altar and presses the side of his head to it and closes his eyes, listening as carefully as he possibly can. &quot; Shush for a sec, everyone. &quot; Taking 20 on listen: &#171; &#160;20+2 = 20 + 2 = 22&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187;

Glitch:<font color="#000000">! Good Guy Landlord? :.

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">He's pretty nice.

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt hears the ticking.

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">Back, anyhow.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt tries to listen for the ticking, and once he hears it, he tries to guess as to what the ticking might be. How regular, how fast it is, etc.

* Thomas Lazarus waits patiently.

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Seems to be counting off seconds.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;..Is it going to do something terrible? I usually associate ticking with Mazian weapons.&quot; &gt;.&gt;;;

VAE:<font color="#000000">This is so true for us, too

VAE:<font color="#000000">The objective of all dedicated employees should be to thoroughly analyze all situations, anticipate all problems prior to their occurrence, have answers for these problems, and move swiftly to solve these problems when called upon. However, When you are up to your ass in alligators it is difficult to remind yourself your initial objective was to drain the swamp.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">With eyes still closed, Gnogglebolt whispers. &quot;...regular...releatively fast...ticking by the second, just like a clock...&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt then shakes his head and stands up, looking at the altar grimly.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Well, it's pretty definitly a clock, as opposed to some other repetative mechanism.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;But clocks can be used for a lot of things.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Simple timekeeping. Or a time lock. Or, as very common in Mazio, at least.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;A time bomb.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;. . . &quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;...But I really rather doubt that one.&quot;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Ooh, Hy like dose.&quot;

Edaric:<font color="#000000">&quot;... Maybe we should all stand back just in case.&quot; &gt;.&gt;;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Not unless the duergar figured out gunpowder.&quot;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Nice und boomy.&quot; :3

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Six dicks of hextor! You almost had me..&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Fuck you..&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;At any rate...wait a minute.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt pulls out his pocketwatch and checks the time.

GM:<font color="#000000">Ding!

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">The exact time.

Tathi:<font color="#9933FF">&quot;I think we're supposed to hit the gong with the rhythm of the seconds, Gnogglebolt.&quot;

GM:<font color="#000000">Grind grind grind... rollrollrollrollroll THUNK.

GM:<font color="#000000">The doors slide aside.

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Dat vould be really, really fa-?&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt jumps at the ding sound.

* Thomas Lazarus readies! &gt;:o

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;So... All we had to do was wait.&quot;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;...Huh, chust had to vait, Hy guess.&quot; :B

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;... Oh ... was that all?&quot;

GM:<font color="#000000">A stone sphere with the sign of a broken arrow on it rests inside.

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;The duergar aren't smart.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;We're really good at wasting time for five minutes.&quot;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Dat vas silly.&quot; :B

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;...&quot; Gnogglebolt stakes a steeeeep forward, and leeeeeeans in a bit.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;This mechanism never stood a chance against the Guardians.&quot; He smirks.

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;And this is the one with the symbol of laduguer.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot; Was it really that simple.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">erk

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Your sister would have done it quicker.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot; Was it really that simple.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;I doubt it. She had the chance.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Oh shit, I forgot I'm still a bit frostbitten.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;She didn't mess with it. She's smarter than people give her credit for. Smarter than me, anyways.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Regardless. Let's get the fuck from here.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Tom.'

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Brother.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">At any rate, Gnogglebolt gives the interior of the chest a once-over to make sure there's no hand-snatching traps. Search: &#171; &#160;1d20+18 = 8 + 18 = 26&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Once-over visual look, that is.

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;You're selling yourself as short as the thief who couldn't count over a hundred.&quot;

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Nothing you can see.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;What do you mean?&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt shuffles, then darts his hand in to snatch the sphere as fast as he can and hops back.

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Ack kettle

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;You are one of the best inquisitors I fucking know, and she's a damn brute.&quot;

* Thomas Lazarus dons an incredulous look. &quot;..What is it with you and deciding you know everything about a person after half an afternoon's exposure to them, anyways? I'm talking about my sister, you know.&quot; =w=;; &quot;Trust me.. she's smarter than I am.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;I took years to make full inquisitor. Flint was here since I came to Castleton, and he was promoted this year. Same with Anise. You advanced in a month.&quot;

* Thomas Lazarus is hella-wise, though. *meta-bricked*

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">in loading limbo, waiting for DM to return and say if Gnogglebolt ran afoul of a trap (indianna jones style possibly) or not...

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;I have had quite enough exposure to your sister. Unlike say, Altonor, she's not mad, or an idiot, but still, no match for you. And I haven't known you for half an afternoon, either. And neither did Ashmore.&quot;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Hy tink he means his sister, not himself.&quot; :B

Tomiko Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">This would be the perfect opportunity for embarassing childhood stories~

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">I AM GLAD YOU ARE GONE.

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;He does, but it changes nothing..&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Well...... We have the next stone, anyways.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Indeed.&quot;

Liatai:<font color="#000000">No traps.

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Pardon, scrolling my token archives. :B

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;let's see if your sister, and the spiderfuckers found anything.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;...Okay, got it.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Let's go.&quot;

Vonain (Goldeneye):<font color="#000000">Forming back up for DM-move...

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">brb

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">Pesky phonecalls.

Miron:<font color="#000000">After all.. he hasn't been with his sister, for how long before now? Maybe she was smarter once.. but now she's a brute muscle, like most Kordites..

</i>* Dr. Hatari returns.

Miron:<font color="#000000">Hell... I know folks who'd stare in disbelief at what I have learned to do just over these few months... Like when I sent a message to Eli the first time.

</i>Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">Still archive-diving?

VAE:<font color="#000000">It's like dumpster-diving

VAE:<font color="#000000">It just stinks less

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Yeah... unless anyone can help me find a woman in a dark hood and/or with facial scars? ^^;

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Sorry, I really should have done this earlier.

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">Probably not, but let's see.

Glitch:<font color="#000000">brb afk, phonecall

VAE:<font color="#000000">http://www.wallpaperhi.com/thumbnails/detail/20120703/women%20scar%20short%20hair%20yellow%20eyes%20bows%20white%20hair%20soft%20shading%20anime%20girls%20faces%20hair%20ornaments%202_www.wallpaperhi.com_14.jpg

VAE:<font color="#000000">is this any good?

Meany:<font color="#660033">It's the second coming of Pamela.

VAE:<font color="#000000">posted in chat too in case it doesn't work her

VAE:<font color="#000000">*here

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">... I don't have an appropriate image.

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">But this is my most recent one. http://s14.postimage.org/6y92xyerl/derplich.png

* VAE pokes lia

VAE:<font color="#000000">was that one any good, or should I keep looking

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">I think it was supposed to have a hood.

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">That's some random deathloli. :B

VAE:<font color="#000000">she said hood or a scarred face

VAE:<font color="#000000">http://www.blogcdn.com/www.comicsalliance.com/media/2010/06/meganfoxtallulah.jpg

VAE:<font color="#000000">antoher

VAE:<font color="#000000">http://www.absoluteanime.com/black_lagoon/balalaika%5B2%5D.jpg

VAE:<font color="#000000">another

Liatai:<font color="#000000">That is indeed a derpish lich. :B

Liatai:<font color="#000000">I'm looking for a face for Masabel. ^^;

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">It's the Blackskull leader.

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">Kain Googley-eyes the soul stealer.

Firaira:<font color="#9933FF">Derpish lich. Definitely. *touched!*

VAE:<font color="#000000">http://api.ning.com/files/DZbyjkcYiNIp0gL*6PaIzW1KD31SLTuouaIIs9aG*YUOsMHUFJ5vT7JtZX4OWAXF7ELUqCSg4MqDRhCEew0DAdYFkn%20MimKhg/anime_boy1.jpg hood here

VAE:<font color="#000000">http://api.ning.com/files/DZbyjkcYiNIp0gL*6PaIzW1KD31SLTuouaIIs9aG*YUOsMHUFJ5vT7JtZX4OWAXF7ELUqCSg4MqDRhCEew0DAdYFkn%20MimKhg/anime_boy1.jpg

VAE:<font color="#000000">hood here

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">...

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">I was about to say 'now that is a great one for her'

* Dr. Hatari then noticed boy in file name.

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">Anime.

</i>VAE:<font color="#000000">ahahaha

VAE:<font color="#000000">I didn't notice

Liatai:<font color="#000000">That's my problem, all the ones with scars are men! XD

VAE:<font color="#000000">. . . do we care?

VAE:<font color="#000000">It looks female enough to fool me

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">You could save it and rename it to anime_girl for peace of mind?

VAE:<font color="#000000">As in, what asides from the filename suggests its a male

* Dr. Hatari is stab'd.

Firaira: <font color="#9933ff">(( brb bio ))

VAE:<font color="#000000">http://i452.photobucket.com/albums/qq244/Toru_Uchiha/images4.jpg

VAE:<font color="#000000">okay this is a hooded *girl*

VAE:<font color="#000000">http://fc00.deviantart.net/fs71/i/2011/087/0/8/3d_hooded_girl_bnw_by_graffix_waxx-d3cofmg.jpg

VAE:<font color="#000000">this too

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Frack it.

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">A bit...

Shankfang the Deffrider:<i><font color="#990000">Busty

</i><font color="#990000">, don't you think?

* Liatai opens Gimp.

Liatai:<font color="#000000">She has no ranks in Disguise anyway. =3= *brick'd*

VAE:<font color="#000000">. . .*snrk*

Firaira: <font color="#9933ff">(( back ))

Meany:<font color="#660033">Been trying to learn rocket jumping while waiting for the game to pick back up.

Meany:<font color="#660033">I'm still a loser.

Miron:<font color="#000000">Fucking spiderfucker cunt, making us waste even more time. *falling bricks from the 4th wall*

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Never mind. =3=;;;

GM:<font color="#000000">Sorry about the diversion. Who's still here? ^^;;;

* Dr. Hatari waves.

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">Yar!

* VAE mrow

Masabel:<font color="#000000">&quot;(I hate whiteface. It feels like having allergies.)&quot; &gt;:|

RAM:<font color="#990000">Ah, I totally forgot.

Firaira: <font color="#9933ff">(( here ))

Glitch:<font color="#000000">oh, present!

Dr. Hatari whispers: ? http://s9.postimage.org/kuaa8wx7z/sample_f51167c37240074ddd18ca022e1d24f4.jpg

RAM:<font color="#990000">Have to go early again, today. Couple of our guys are deploying tomorrow morning, and we're having everyone see them off.

Altonor:<font color="#000000">(Undercommon, it should be said) &quot;(Better allergies than getting everyone killed,)&quot; muffled a bit through his helm's visor.

* Gamal-Junayd is

You whisper to Dr. Hatari: :O That'll do!

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Back at the statue... &quot;We got the broken-arrow sphere. You got the shield-sphere, right?&quot;

Dr. Hatari whispers: http://s7.postimage.org/fgy70xfqj/1328522680546.jpg

Glitch:<font color="#000000">--erk. Wait,we already got that one, didn't we?

VAE:<font color="#000000">yeah

Glitch:<font color="#000000">Strike that...

VAE:<font color="#000000">there's crown which isn't there, and stone which was nicked

Altonor:<font color="#000000">&quot;Shield sphere's already here. What we did find was their mess hall. Got a quick peek outside, too. Raerarael's told us nobody's come down the tunnel.

Altonor:<font color="#000000">&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Back at the statue... &quot;We got the broken-arrow sphere. You find anything notable in the other branch?&quot;?&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">right. ;B

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Okay then...&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Means there must be another exit somewhere.'

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;We have five out of six outer sphere.&quot;

Tomiko Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Good.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;The stone-sphere is missing. Helvirahel assassins are on the loose, and probably the culprits.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Weren't there some stairs leading to an upper level back in those entrance branches?&quot;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Or dey are chust hidink sumvere...&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Which helps us as much as shoes to a fucking fish.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Hmm.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;That's about the only place I can think to go next without the stone-sphere.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Anyone's got any scrying spells?&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Not ready.&quot;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Oh yeah! De stairs!&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;With a touch of luck, we might find some crap from the assassins in the place the ... ah well.&quot;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;In de armory!&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;..We do still have the last thing we used to scry on them, though.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;If you do.. &quot;

* Thomas Lazarus shrugs. &quot;Doesn't help us today.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Yeah, I don't have scrying ready.&quot;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Hy tink ve should finish searchink de place hennyvay before usink up our magik.&quot;

Viceth:<font color="#000000">&quot;We checked those upper staircases. They all lead to the balcony where the Hextorians fired at us from.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Let's go then. Maybe I'm wrong and they really are complete morons.&quot;

* Tomiko Lazarus seems to be assessing Masabel's disguise.

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;...Vell, dem.&quot; &gt;:/

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;...Well then, my friends, we're in trouble.&quot;

* Thomas Lazarus sighs.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Well.. I had a question.&quot;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Aelian, no luck tryink to track dem?&quot;

Aelian:<font color="#9933FF">Not sure I even got results on the track. ^^;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;So.. you checked upstairs already.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Fuck.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Does anyone have any ideas about where to try and look for and-or catch the Helvirahels? They're almost certainly the ones who took the stone-sphere.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Well... that leaves two options.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;We heard a riddle about a.. what was it.. hammer and stone making a crown?&quot; He furrows his brows and

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;And we need that to get past this statue...I mean, I suppose someone could try and destroy it...&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Either try to make do with five spheres somehow, or try to break our way in.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Yes. The riddle implies there's no seventh sphere.&quot;

* Thomas Lazarus snaps. &quot;Lilly...&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;And that the hammer and stone shoud go in first.&quot;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Oi, Gnoggle, hyu got henny Seaforium?&quot; :.

Altonor:<font color="#000000">&quot;Lilly?&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;I thought 'if only I could cast locate object today', but I can't.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;But we rescued a diviner.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Lilly?&quot;

Vonain (Goldeneye):<font color="#000000">'And as I said before, in my experience, if someone goes through enough trouble to make a sealed passageway like this statue, they put in defenses to prevent people from just trying to break our way through.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Maybe we could get her help?&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Where is she?&quot;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Hy doubt de pipple dat made dis place planned for high explosives.&quot; &gt;:3

Vonain (Goldeneye):<font color="#000000">&quot;I have no doubt if we try to smash the statue, the statue will smash us. Or zap us. Or something else similarly unpleasant.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;. . . &quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Wait.&quot;

Edaric:<font color="#000000">&quot;-- Hey, that might be a thought! I forgot! The Olidamarran fortune teller!&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;I have a Sending prepared.&quot;

* Thomas Lazarus deflates slightly and looks up. &quot;..A ways walk back.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;If we need anyone... I can message them.&quot;

Edaric:<font color="#000000">&quot;I think she's back in the Pelorite temple, though... yeah.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;If they can do their shit from wherever they are, we have no need to go back.&quot;

Altonor:<font color="#000000">&quot;And have them walk alone through the Underdark?&quot;

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">GRRR

Vonain (Goldeneye):<font color="#000000">&quot;...Okay, so we have a ready Sending spell, and a diviner who -might- be able to track our quarry.&quot;

Aelian: <font color="#9933ff">(( brb, letting dogs in ))

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">Brb taking phone off the bloody hook

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;If all we need is a scry, then they don't need to.&quot;

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">Beggar will not stop calling here

Vonain (Goldeneye):<font color="#000000">&quot;Does anyone have a good way to say in twenty-five words who we need her to look for?&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Helvirahel assassins? I don't give a fuck.. When you agree on a message, I'll relay it.&quot;

Viceth:<font color="#000000">&quot;Perhaps we may wish to try the statue's lock with the materials we have, before our plans grow too complex. They do, after all, have at least half an hour on us by your report.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;As far as it pains me, Viceth has a point there.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">Tom snaps again. &quot;Oh.. could Mr. Raerarael teleport..?&quot; &gt;:.c

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;We can't afford to waste a day here.&quot;

Vonain (Goldeneye):<font color="#000000">&quot;As I understand, scrying on someone one has never seen before even with the best of descriptions never works very well...&quot;

Viceth:<font color="#000000">&quot;We ourselves did not know we were coming here until this morning, which leads me to suspect they may be after the circle. Why, I am unsure.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Ah. Heh, yeah..&quot; ^^;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Sure! Let's try the stones we -do- have. Come on, everyone with a sphere, slot it into the statue...&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;I said it already. No fuck they're after us, or they'd be stupid.&quot;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">Sphere slotted!

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;They must intend some fuckery with the summoning circle in place.&quot;

GM:<font color="#000000">Hold on. Which sphere are you slotting?

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt takes out the broken-arrow sphere he had grabbed and moves towards the statue.

* Edaric looks at Miron, sweatdropping. &quot;... Tom's right, you are throwing around a lot of fucks lately.&quot; ^^;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Maybe they want to take it out as well. After all. . . a town in control of the devils would be bad news for the drowish hellhole too.&quot;

Swallowtail:<font color="#000000">&quot;He has many fucks he gives.&quot;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">Shield!

Tomiko Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">Last I recalled, the Lazaruses have no puzzle-sphere.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;...&quot; |D;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">I have the shield!

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;And. . . enemy of my enemy is my friend, ever heard that one? Maybe they'll sort themselves out, among themselves.&quot;

GM:<font color="#000000">You can see the puzzle below. All players should have ownership of a sphere.

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">Doktor, question.

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">huzzahwha

RAM:<font color="#990000">What kinf of face is |D; supposed to be? :.

Aelian: <font color="#9933ff">(( back ))

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">It's like |D

RAM:<font color="#990000">You use it a lot, and I have no idea what it is. :B

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">Except sweating.

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">Poorly construed.

RAM:<font color="#990000">Ah.

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">But accepted. :B

RAM:<font color="#990000">Hmm, makes sense.

GM:<font color="#000000">Click. As Shankfang slots the shield into place -- hold on, Ram.

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">Holding on!

Teeny Rin:<font color="#FF0000">HOLD ONTO YOUR BUTTS

Meany:<font color="#660033">Weee.

GM:<font color="#000000">The statue's eyes open, and with a grinding noise, it stands. It pivots on its base, facing southward. Nothing else happens.

GM:<font color="#000000">It's facing the shield door.

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;...Huh.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;....&quot;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Dat's...interestink...&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Okay, that's something.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;The lord shall gaze upon the truth.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Hesitantly, Gnogglebolt puts in the broken arrow sphere.

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;This duergar bullshit has to have something with this.&quot;

GM:<font color="#000000">Click! The statue pivots north... and then raises its arms. A yellow glow suffuses the grid, including the empty crown circle. The spheres all roll into their appropriate holes, and then -- You might want to take a step back.

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">Step back taken!

Tomiko Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">Hup!

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt jumps and backpedals. &quot;I did not expect this!&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;I...&quot;

<i><font color="#0000ff">Railock is disconnected.

</i>Meany:<font color="#660033">I think I finally got the key to the jumping thing down. &gt;:U

Meany:<font color="#660033">I just need practice.

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;If it's like I said.. it'll do shit, but one of the enchantments's missing.&quot;

Teeny Rin:<font color="#FF0000">I should make an Illidan token just to swap with my face every now and then and be like YOU WERE NOT PREPAAAIIRED.

GM:<font color="#000000">The statue of the duergar noble looks down, then kneels and vanishes. You hear a clunk, and all the spheres are enclosed in stone casings. You can hear them rolling off to the edges of the complex. The platform then rotates...

<i><font color="#0000ff">Railock has connected.

</i>Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;This might be .. a lot more dangerous than what was intended.&quot;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">:o

* Thomas Lazarus watches pensively. o_o;

GM:<font color="#000000">And then sinks into the floor. It moves aside to reveal an adamantine door set into the floor, with a single red gem in the middle.

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Remember? The spells on the stones, there were abjurations. I said they probably were made, at least in part to protect the users of the grid somehow.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Well... we shall see.&quot;

* Tomiko Lazarus brightens.

Tomiko Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Sc-ore~&quot;

Vonain (Goldeneye):<font color="#000000">&quot;.....&quot;

Vonain (Goldeneye):<font color="#000000">&quot;Really?&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Maybe this is the door that Laduguer's name should open somehow, too.&quot;

Vonain (Goldeneye):<font color="#000000">&quot;It works with a missing stone...?&quot;

GM:<font color="#000000">There are Infernal runes scratched into the stone near the northern part of the wall.

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Huh, interestink...&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;It might work.. in a broken manner.&quot;

Vonain (Goldeneye):<font color="#000000">&quot;Right, well...this is probably the door.&quot;

Vonain (Goldeneye):<font color="#000000">&quot;Anyone feel like speaking the name of the god of toil?&quot;

* Tomiko Lazarus frowns at the red gem.

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;I can.&quot;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;But...den vat about all de odder stones?&quot; :.

Masabel:<font color="#000000">&quot;Well that was a show.&quot;

VAE:<font color="#000000">Where's the door again? Where the statue used to be?

Glitch:<font color="#000000">(apparently)

Tomiko Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">Dryly, she points at the gem and asks, &quot;What's that?&quot;

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Yep. It's a big round trapdoor/manhole cover.

Tomiko Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Duergar don't decorate things.&quot;

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Vonain can sense magic coming from the door.

Tomiko Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;That means it does something.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">The inquisitor steps forward and pronounces in dwarven. &quot;Open in the name of LADUGUER&quot;

GM:<font color="#000000">... The door makes a groaning noise, but the gem glows red and it halts.

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&gt;:T

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Something fucked up.&quot;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;OH!&quot; :O

Miron:<font color="#000000">&#171; &#160;1d20+19 = 1 + 19 = 20&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187; Spellcraft

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;OH OH OH!&quot; :O

Edaric:<font color="#000000">&quot;Maybe someone changed the locks.&quot; &gt;:d

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Hy bet de gem is a lock!&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot; Are you about to shoot it.&quot;

Vonain (Goldeneye):<font color="#000000">&quot;Yep, it's probably the missing stone holding it closed.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;I can't tell head from arse here.&quot;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Vell, de door groaned like it vas vorkink, but den de gem glowed und it schtopped.&quot;

Aelian:<font color="#9933FF">&quot;Changed the locks? Well, Swallowtail could have a look at it?&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;You know what,&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;I'm cool with that.&quot;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;So, Hy bet dat eidder destroyink or oddervise removink it vould work!&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Shoot it.&quot;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">:D

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Indeed.&quot;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">SHOOTING!

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">=3=

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Shoot it in that bald fuck's name.&quot;

* Tomiko Lazarus raises her brows and takes a pace back. &quot;...&quot;

Vonain (Goldeneye):<font color="#000000">&quot; This is a terrible idea. &quot; Vonain quietly remarks...in an almost cherry tone.

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">BANG!! &#171; &#160;1d20+20 = 9 + 20 = 29&#160; <font color="#990000">&#187; for &#171;  &#160;4d6+2 = 16 + 2 = 18&#160; <font color="#990000">&#187; damage!

Vonain (Goldeneye):<font color="#000000">*cheery

GM:<font color="#000000">The gem glows red, and small chips are taken off the stone. But it stays intact.

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;When there is no time to spare Demolish for Laduguer!&quot;

Meany:<font color="#660033">I'm suddenly reminded of Sig.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Yeah, but, I'm tired of telling him he can't shoot things. Seriously, it's like five times a day.&quot;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&gt;:E

Meany:<font color="#660033">I miss the Jak games, back when they were awesome.

Vonain (Goldeneye):<font color="#000000">Vonain looks at the aftermath.

Meany:<font color="#660033">And not racing games.

Edaric:<font color="#000000">&#171; &#160;1d20+2 = 7 + 2 = 9&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187; Int check...

Vonain (Goldeneye):<font color="#000000">&quot;I wouldn't keep doing that if I were you.&quot;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">ANOTHER BANG! &#171; &#160;1d20+20 = 5 + 20 = 25&#160; <font color="#990000">&#187; for &#171;  &#160;4d6+2 = 10 + 2 = 12&#160; <font color="#990000">&#187; damage!

Swallowtail:<font color="#000000">&#171; &#160;1d20+1 = 8 + 1 = 9&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187; Int check

Teeny Rin:<font color="#FF0000">Yeees, yeeeeeessss~

Miron:<font color="#000000">Detect Magic. And &#171; &#160;1d20+19 = 16 + 19 = 35&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187; spellcraft again, to try to understand what the fuck's happening

Viceth:<font color="#000000">&#171; &#160;1d20+4 = 1 + 4 = 5&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187; Int check.

Viceth:<font color="#000000">The dice don't want me to give you a hint. :B

Liatai:<font color="#000000">It's clearly an abjuration of some kind, and what's more, it looks recent.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Int check! &#171; &#160;1d20+5 = 9 + 5 = 14&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;I don't suppose anyone speaks infernal?&quot; ^^;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;BREAK HYU DEM GEM!&quot; &gt;:O

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">Well.

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;There's.. someoene cast an abjuration on this. Recently.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Anyone here good at dispelling shit?&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">And ...

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">We'll say Tom guessed it was infernal script by context. &gt;.&gt;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">I should mention all that damage was Force damage.

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">If that makes any difference.

GM:<font color="#000000">The gem glows even brighter -- and then a JET of red flame shoots at Shankfang! &#171; &#160;1d20+9 = 17 + 9 = 26&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187; ranged touch attack, &#171;  &#160;4d6 = 10&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187; fire damage!

VAE:<font color="#000000">Hmm, should I make Miron have an int check to see if he can understand at least *something* of the infernal script?

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;OW!&quot;

VAE:<font color="#000000">As in, would it be allowed?

Edaric:<font color="#000000">&quot;Whoa, whoa, stop shooting it!&quot;

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Decipher Script, it'd be.

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;FFFFFFFFFFFFFF-!&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Seems like it fights back.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;What have we learned/&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">?*

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Well, now that we've got that out of the way.&quot; Wandpat. &#171; &#160;2d8+3 = 10 + 3 = 13&#160; <font color="#FF0000">&#187;

Vonain (Goldeneye):<font color="#000000">&quot;Didn't I tell you?&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&#171; &#160;1d20+9 = 19 + 9 = 28&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187; Decipher Script on the infernal then

Vonain (Goldeneye):<font color="#000000">&quot;I told you.&quot;

You whisper to VAE: It's the same as what was in the notebook, but it looks recent... &quot;Speak the name of your lord.&quot;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;GARL DEMMIT VY DOESN'T HENNYTINK HY'M GOOT AT VORK!&quot; &gt;:O

Miron:<font color="#000000">The inquisitor examines the infernal script,comparing it ...

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;I got it&quot;

Vonain (Goldeneye):<font color="#000000">o shit, and meanwhile, Vonain goes and retroactively heals Gnogglebolt's frostbite damage. :B

* Shankfang the Deffrider rages! &gt;:E

Liatai:<font color="#000000">&#171; &#160;3d8+3 = 9 + 3 = 12&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187;

Vonain (Goldeneye):<font color="#000000">clw &#171; &#160;1d8+1 = 1 + 1 = 2&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Open in the name of Hextor!&quot;

Vonain (Goldeneye):<font color="#000000">clw 2 &#171; &#160;1d8+1 = 2 + 1 = 3&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187;

GM:<font color="#000000">The gem glows... orange.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Hm..?&quot; He head-tilts.

* Thomas Lazarus readies more magic. :|

Vonain (Goldeneye):<font color="#000000">clw 3 &#171; &#160;1d8+1 = 1 + 1 = 2&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;The runes said. Speak the name of your Lord.&quot;

GM:<font color="#000000">The door sinks down with a sudden THUNK. It rolls horizontally, to the side... revealing a staircase heading down.

Vonain (Goldeneye):<font color="#000000">geeze. clw 4 &#171; &#160;1d8+1 = 5 + 1 = 6&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;..Well, I'll be.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;They changed the locks.&quot;

Vonain (Goldeneye):<font color="#000000">&quot;There we go. Wrong Lord.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;They did.&quot;

GM:<font color="#000000">A blast of hot air rises up from below. Seems you've found the spot.

Shankfang the Deffrider: <font color="#990000">&quot;Uf kourse he talks to it und de dem ting opens. Fuckink magik.&quot;

<font color="#990000"> &gt;:T

Railock:<font color="#000000">&quot;Becasue you aren't good at enough various things. If all you have is a hammer, doesn't do you any good when you need to screw somethign in, now does it?&quot;

Gamal-Junayd:<font color="#000000">&quot;Becasue you aren't good at enough various things. If all you have is a hammer, doesn't do you any good when you need to screw somethign in, now does it?&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Oh, don't be a sore loser. Just because shooting everything doesn't work all the time.&quot; =w=;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Oh schut up Gamal.&quot; =3=

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Apparently I can pass for a Hextorite enough to open a door.&quot; Miron grins.

Masabel:<font color="#000000">&quot;Tell you what, we see those rusties and you can shoot them all you want.&quot;

Tomiko Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;..Rusties?&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Well, the way is open...once more into the breach?&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot; I'm still worried about that missing stone and how the Helvirahels are here...&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;The missing stone worries me more.&quot;

Viceth:<font color="#000000">&quot;Helvirahels. Their house crest is a rust monster... It's something of a derogatory term. Much like how Claddanis used to be called dispers.&quot;

Tomiko Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Gotcha.&quot;

Altonor:<font color="#000000">&quot;And the Rilynasek pansies.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;If it really were wards. . . we might be at a far greater risk of possession going down.&quot;

Tomiko Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Well, I know who you meant, atleast. Fill me in on the rest later.&quot;

Tomiko Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Let's go.&quot;

Altonor:<font color="#000000">&quot;A sentiment I can agree with. Let me go first. Fiends have a hard time with me.&quot; &gt;:3

Altonor:<font color="#000000">Clank!

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Suit yourself.&quot;

Miron: <font color="#000000">&quot;I guess they're not into possessing a fiend

* Altonor hops down onto the staircase...

Meany:<font color="#660033">And trips.

Meany:<font color="#660033">And rolls down the staircase.

Masabel:<font color="#000000">&quot;All right, little fucker, I've had just about enough of your mouth. If you're going to hate somebody, get it right.&quot;

* Thomas Lazarus facepalms. &quot;...&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">The inquisitor coughs. &quot;What did you say, you rotting drip from lolth's cunt?&quot;

Masabel:<font color="#000000">&quot;Lolthians. Lolthians deserve your hate. Not all drow. Get that little fact into your head. And --&quot;

Viceth:<font color="#000000">&quot;Enough.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Enough.&quot;

* Masabel flinches.

* Thomas Lazarus frowns hard. &quot;Just stop it. Don't retort, don't snipe, don't start.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Now is the worst possible time.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Now let's go. Altonor needs us at his back.&quot;

Miron: <font color="#000000">&quot;Lolthians like..

<font color="#000000"> &quot; .. . &quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Allright, brother.&quot;

Viceth:<font color="#000000">&quot;The good Father Lazarus is right.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Thank you.&quot;

* Altonor peeks his head up. &quot;You all didn't start fighting without me, did you?&quot;

Tomiko Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Heh.&quot;

* Viceth chuckles dryly. &quot;Not the sort of fight you'd be interested in, toror'amin.&quot;

* Tomiko Lazarus heads over and drops into the staircase next.

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Let us go in Saint Cuthbert's name and blow their grid up all the way up to the Basilica's front step.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt and Vonain at eleast follow Altonor down the stairway.

Tomiko Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;If you've got assassin mages.. then let me get their attention.&quot;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">Down we go!

Tomiko Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Daggers in the back and spells don't work on me.&quot;

Altonor:<font color="#000000">&quot;Well if you're interested in maybe fighting something worthwhile, it seems clear directly below, and I saw a few dim auras beyond the door north.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">Sszeyl chews on more of the purple fungus.

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;-Really- hope this stuff grows fast in the caves.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;It's good as is, but is better cooked.'

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;*

GM:<font color="#000000">A new map is unlocked -- Yoriver - Deep Dark. I'll be copying your tokens. :3

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;I can't understand how you can stuff your fucking face *now*&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">=_=; &quot;Is it, really..?&quot;

* Dr. Hatari map transfers~

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">Sszeyl breaks off a bite of it, and offers it to Tom.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">D: GM:<font color="#000000">Say &quot;red rock&quot; when you're loaded!

VAE:<font color="#000000">red rock

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">Red rock!

Red Rock:<font color="#FF0000">Hey, how ya doin'

Aelian: <font color="#9933ff">(( Red rock!!! ))

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">Rocky Red.

GM:<font color="#000000">Glitch?

GM:<font color="#000000">Railock?

Meany:<font color="#660033">Glitch is dead.

Meany:<font color="#660033">Tragic really.

Meany:<font color="#660033">No one could have stopped that chainsaw.

GM:<font color="#000000">Shall we get some mid-session noms before we go?

* Meany hides the body.

Glitch:<font color="#000000">buh, huh?

Glitch:<font color="#000000">oops. Red rock. :B

Glitch:<font color="#000000">(I tab away for twenty seconds...)

VAE:<font color="#000000">hmm

RAM:<font color="#990000">So, umm...

VAE:<font color="#000000">Nomming Tom for &quot;Let's kill the devils, then each other&quot;

Gamal-Junayd:<font color="#000000">red rock

Gamal-Junayd:<font color="#000000">map tools is being a pain today for me

RAM:<font color="#990000">I have, like, an hour left. I need to be up at, like, 0500 to see off the guys deploying.

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Oof.

VAE:<font color="#000000">owch

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">That sucks.

VAE:<font color="#000000">yeah

RAM:<font color="#990000">Indeed.

VAE:<font color="#000000">Nomming Gnoggelbolt for &quot;This is a clock! We have to precisely keep... oh fuck, it opened anyways.&quot;

Gamal-Junayd:<font color="#000000">gonna grab some food, afk a sec

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">XP

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">Seconding.

VAE:<font color="#000000">He seemed almost disappointed

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Out of curiosity, do you guys want to know the answers to the clock puzzle and the stone circle puzzle? :3

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">Almost very disappointed. :B

VAE:<font color="#000000">Hmm OK

VAE:<font color="#000000">It's .. behind us anyways

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">Sure. Doesn't matter now.

Glitch:<font color="#000000">Sure. :B

Liatai:<font color="#000000">You hit upon one of the possible solutions right on the bat, after futzing around. XD

VAE:<font color="#000000">we passed it, in one way or another

Liatai:<font color="#000000">The clock puzzle: hit the gong, wait 15 IRL minutes.

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">That should be a failsafe puzzle opening mechanism forevermore.

Glitch:<font color="#000000">...

Glitch:<font color="#000000">wat. xD

RAM:<font color="#990000">xD

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Contingency: It just opens if they faff about for a half hour.&quot;

VAE:<font color="#000000">bwahahah

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">Same with combat.

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Okay we're going into sudden death.&quot;

VAE:<font color="#000000">ahhaha

Liatai:<font color="#000000">The circle puzzle was a math puzzle. Each slot had a number; you just had to get a combination that equaled a multiple of seven. :3

VAE:<font color="#000000">. ..

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Your first combination was shield (6) and arrow (1), which led to 7.

VAE:<font color="#000000">wow

RAM:<font color="#990000">Huh.

VAE:<font color="#000000">We. .. . did it by accident

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">Huh. Not as intuitive, that one.

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Sword (5) and book (2) would have also worked.

RAM:<font color="#990000">So, just sheer dumb luck, eh?

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">But atleast we did it.

Glitch:<font color="#000000">Was that seriously the first and only way that clock puzzle worked? Nothing else to it? :B

Liatai:<font color="#000000">That was it. Just patience. :B

VAE:<font color="#000000">Wo

VAE:<font color="#000000">Wow.

Glitch:<font color="#000000">Wow. :B

VAE:<font color="#000000">This is the best puzzle solving mechanism ever

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">Except we weren't patient.

RAM:<font color="#990000">What would have happened if we got the circle puzzle wrong?

VAE:<font color="#000000">We. . . slapped the things in without any semblance of sense

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">We are, in fact, characterized by ridiculous impatience.

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Every time you hit the gong, the clock would have reset.

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">And also hypocrasy as we fuck about arguing for fifteen minutes.

RAM:<font color="#990000">x3

Liatai:<font color="#000000">I thought you guys were going to be there for at least an hour. XD

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">So we cheated the test of virtue.

Meany:<font color="#660033">Help.

Dr. Hatari:<b><font color="#FF0000">By muckin' about.

</b>Meany:<font color="#660033">Cannot achieve escape velocity.

Meany:<font color="#660033">Of imagr.

VAE:<font color="#000000">. ..

Meany:<font color="#660033">imgur*

VAE:<font color="#000000">Hammer and stone shall forge the crown

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">Play Akellon, please. =w=;

Meany:<font color="#660033">I went back to check that.

VAE:<font color="#000000">That was the prescribed sum, right

VAE:<font color="#000000">those two, and it opens

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Hammer (4) and stone (3) was another solution.

VAE:<font color="#000000">Hence someone was clever, and thought of fucking with us

VAE:<font color="#000000">And they fucked up

Glitch:<font color="#000000">Liatai: Every time you hit the gong, the clock would have reset.

Glitch:<font color="#000000">oh god we were so close to that.

VAE:<font color="#000000">indeed

RAM:<font color="#990000">And if we got the circle one wrong?

Meany:<font color="#660033">TPK.

VAE:<font color="#000000">I think nothing would have happened

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Getting the cirles wrong would have just resulted in the statue turning around in place, facing the slot that represented your total (n) minus 7, or just (n) if 7 &gt; n.

VAE:<font color="#000000">it'd move in wrong manners

VAE:<font color="#000000">. ..

VAE:<font color="#000000">Lia that's awesome

Liatai:<font color="#000000">So it was possible to get it with logic. :3

VAE:<font color="#000000">We got it by chance

RAM:<font color="#990000">Huh.

VAE:<font color="#000000">because we're that sort of a group

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">We get most of the puzzles by chance.

VAE:<font color="#000000">and it's an epic story

Liatai:<font color="#000000">I was proud of that puzzle. XD

Liatai:<font color="#000000">But anyway. Any more mid-session noms? :3

VAE:<font color="#000000">Asides from Tom and Gnogglebolt?

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">Miron for high blood pressure.

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">:B

Red Rock:<font color="#FF0000">Roll a fortitude save versus life.

Glitch:<font color="#000000">Shankfang for &quot;DEMMIT WHY DOES SHOOTY NOT WORK.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">What in the frozen arse of Cania's deepest pit you fucking mean by me fucking having fucking high blood pressure? Fuck this shit!

Red Rock:<font color="#FF0000">Fast-forward ten years.

Swallowtail:<font color="#000000">Miron is giving more fucks.

VAE:<font color="#000000">. ..

Red Rock:<font color="#FF0000">Miron's head is just a nose with hair, and he can only communicate in Fuck.

VAE:<font color="#000000">Ye

VAE:<font color="#000000">Yes.

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">I wish shooty worked more than just in combat. =3=

VAE:<font color="#000000">Nomming Swallowtail

VAE:<font color="#000000">&quot;Because he has many fucks to give.&quot;

VAE:<font color="#000000">That response, back then, had me in stitches

Gamal-Junayd:<font color="#000000">back

Red Rock:<font color="#FF0000">Miron and Sszeyl are kind of just cosmic opposites on the give-a-fuck scale.

Miron:<font color="#000000">Hey, my nose is the same size it always was. Just in this picture, you see me at an angle.

* Dr. Hatari can't think of any additional noms presently.

VAE:<font color="#000000">oooh

VAE:<font color="#000000">Edaric

VAE:<font color="#000000">&quot;I don't think &quot;he&quot;'s have those&quot;

* Altonor raises a hand suddenly at the door. &quot; Hold it. Father Lazarus, get up here, see if you can confirm this. &quot;

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">Oh. Vonain. &quot; lawls nope &quot; *stands off behind cover multiple times*

* Thomas Lazarus approaches, eyes already aglow.

Gamal-Junayd:<font color="#000000">liatai, what sort of puzzle was down the hallway the npcs took?

Firaira:<font color="#9933FF">He he he.

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">I don't believe it was any puzzle, but a mess hall.

VAE:<font color="#000000">no

VAE:<font color="#000000">the one which the helvirahels took

Altonor:<font color="#000000">&quot; I'm getting an aura a little to the left, right on the edge of my range. It's not a weak aura, either. &quot; The drow's eyes, from what you can see past the helmet, are glowing silver as he stares into the door.

Liatai:<font color="#000000">You can ask Hatari or Ghost, they'd probably be able to tell it well. :P

Vonain (Goldeneye):<font color="#000000">Vonain, meanwhile, is looking about for general magic

You whisper to Glitch: Dim auras again... but fresher.

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">Thank you for playing whisper relay for us, also.

Vonain (Goldeneye):<font color="#000000">&quot; Guys.&quot;

Vonain (Goldeneye):<font color="#000000">&quot; I'm picking up fading magic auras...&quot;

Vonain (Goldeneye):<font color="#000000">&quot; but these ones are fresher than the ones from earlier.&quot;

You whisper to Dr. Hatari: To the northeast of your current position, beyond the door, in addition to a smattering of dim auras, you can get an overwhelming aura.

Miron: <font color="#000000">&quot;So somehow, those fucks might be in there? No way.&quot;

Vonain (Goldeneye):<font color="#000000">&quot; I think we literally just missed your 'assassins'. They might be in there.&quot;

Miron: <font color="#000000">&quot;I don't think so. If someone opens the way, the stones return to the altars. The dead one said it.

* Thomas Lazarus flinches and double-takes to the door. &quot;...&quot;

You whisper to Dr. Hatari: Focusing northwest gets you another one.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt looks back and waves for the stragglers to form up.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">Tom nods to Altonor. &quot; Yeah... there are some serious fiends in there, waiting for us.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">Sszeyl chews.

Gamal-Junayd:<font color="#000000">&quot;Should we press on then? catch up to them before they can make the situation here worse?&quot;

Edaric:<font color="#000000">&quot; Wouldn't stop them from going back and getting the puzzle piece again to get in somebody's way. &quot;

Gamal-Junayd:<font color="#000000">:You mean we may have a challenge ahead of us?&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Possible.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot; If any of you have some powers to raise your strength.. now is the time to use them, or hold your breath.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Well, I'd be for letting them fight each other.&quot;

VAE:<font color="#000000">OOC question

VAE:<font color="#000000">moment

Gamal-Junayd:<font color="#000000">&quot;What if they team up instead?&quot;

VAE:<font color="#000000">Does it make sense to apply buffs which have turn duration?

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">Loaded up and ready to go!

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt double-checks his belt.

Vonain (Goldeneye):<font color="#000000">Vonain takes a deep breath...

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">I'm not sure I understand the question.

* Edaric unslings his lute, for the first time this dungeon.

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">But I think it's yes?

Vonain (Goldeneye):<font color="#000000">and everyone standing next to him suddenly feels more courageous.

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Doubt so. They are Orgolloys. These diabolists migth well be trouble for them too.&quot;

VAE:<font color="#000000">As in

VAE:<font color="#000000">Miron can dope all of you with Recitation and Righteous Wrath of the Faithful, both of which last one turn per level

Gamal-Junayd:<font color="#000000">&quot;Sszeyel, what's the chance of hte assassins and fiends working together?&quot;

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">Oh.

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">Then yes.

VAE:<font color="#000000">Usually done in combat.

Gamal-Junayd:<font color="#000000">Miron doping.

VAE:<font color="#000000">Which do you need more?

Gamal-Junayd:<font color="#000000">woo!

VAE:<font color="#000000">and wait for me plz

Gamal-Junayd:<font color="#000000">what do they do?

VAE:<font color="#000000">Need to open my prayers textfile

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot; For crying out loud, you guys.. &quot; Tom abandons all hope of trying to cut the chatter, and casts a spell.

VAE:<font color="#000000">One is +2 moral bonus on attack and other thigns

VAE:<font color="#000000">And other is attacks.

VAE:<font color="#000000">wait a moment

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">Ed will already be giving us morale boni.

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">Moar attacks!

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">And they don't stack.

VAE:<font color="#000000">They do

VAE:<font color="#000000">That's the thing

VAE:<font color="#000000">The two spells are different types of bonus

Vonain (Goldeneye):<font color="#000000">At any rate, anyone standing within 10 feet of Vonain has +4 save bonus against fear

Vonain (Goldeneye):<font color="#000000">(but only if you're standing in 10 feet of him)

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">I meant morale boni don't stack. So if they're different, go for it.

Viceth:<font color="#000000">&quot; Excuse me, lady Amayan -- I don't believe I caught your name. &quot;

Swallowtail:<font color="#000000">&quot; -- Swallowtail. &quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">Sszeyl holds up four fingers.

VAE:<font color="#000000">recitation - +2 luck bonus to AC attack and saves ,+3 if you're cuthbertian

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">Then ten fingers.

Viceth:<font color="#000000">&quot; Lady Swallowtail. Would you mind switching places with me a moment? &quot;

Red Rock:<font color="#FF0000">On one hand. Spongebob style.

VAE:<font color="#000000">RRighteous wrath, you gain additional melee attack at full mods, +3 morale attack, and +3 morale damage

Swallowtail:<font color="#000000">&quot;....?&quot; Swallowtail steps back.

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">Okay not that then.

VAE:<font color="#000000">anand the latter two explicitlystack with haster

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">It wouldn't have any effect at all on most of us.

VAE:<font color="#000000">see above. THe latter two +3s explicitly stack with haste

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">The extra attack doesn't stack with haste, and the morale +3/+3 doesn't stack with bardsong.

VAE:<font color="#000000">but yeeah, imma go with recitation

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">So it would be useless for Tom, Shank, Tomi.

Viceth:<font color="#000000">&quot; Grazie. &quot; The magus nods, stepping into position and lowering his head, tracing runes in the air.

Gamal-Junayd:<font color="#000000">gamal would love it but if someone just casts regular haste, no need to waste the +3 that doesnt stack with bardsong

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">Ghost's archers would all get extra attacks but it would fuck up his macros so *arrow'd*

Viceth:<font color="#000000">The chant is quiet, quick, and full of consonants... but it finishes with a quick snap of the fingers and oh jeez everyone just burst ino flame! D8

Miron:<font color="#000000">Before the attack, the inquisitor opens up his book and recites: ''Saint Cuthbert, You who safeguards the Law of the Heavens, hear the voice of Your faithful. For thus says Your holy writ: &quot;The heavens smile when the righteous take up arms against evil.&quot; Your Cudgel smites the lawless, may it grant us strength. Your Cross strikes fear into the hearts of the vile, may it grant us resolve. Your Holy Word purges corruption, may it deliver us from its touch. Fill us with Your Holy might, so that we become tools of your judgement upon the wicked. Amen! ''&quot;And now, let us purge this nest of fiends like a farmer burns out a snake hollow!&quot;

Viceth:<font color="#000000">... But it's not hot.

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">Fuego!

VAE:<font color="#000000">Theme: Imperativa :3

* Thomas Lazarus bows his head and intones a prayer. His old -- oh well. His normal blue flames are accompanied by arcane flames! Divine Power.

VAE:<font color="#000000">Anyone else a cuthbertian here?

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Gha!-- Oh, I remember this one.&quot; Gnogglebolt says as he is set on fire that does not burn him.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Gha!-- Oh, I remember this one. &quot; Gnogglebolt says as he is set on fire that does not burn him.

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Oooh, dat's kool...&quot;

* Tomiko Lazarus hasn't said a word. &quot;...&quot; Arms folded, head bowed, eyes closed. She waits.

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Nope, no Cuthbertines as far as I know.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Alright.. let's go!&quot;

* Viceth slinks back in line, with a gracious nod to the ninja.

* Kep'salion rears up, and with a whinny, kicks the door in!

* Thomas Lazarus points at Gnogglebolt. &quot;Make sure that belt's on, friend!&quot;

Altonor:<font color="#000000">Roll init! &#171; &#160;1d20+2 = 1 + 2 = 3&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Checked and double-checked! Even put in fresh fuel.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">Init: &#171; &#160;1d20+1 = 7 + 1 = 8&#160; <font color="#FF0000">&#187;

Tomiko Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">Initiative: &#171; &#160;1d20+2 = 19 + 2 = 21&#160; <font color="#FF0000">&#187;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&#171; &#160;1d20+0 = 2 + 0 = 2&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187; Init

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Init: &#171; &#160;1d20+1 = 1 + 1 = 2&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187;

Swallowtail:<font color="#FF0000">Init: &#171; &#160;1d20+9 = 4 + 9 = 13&#160; <font color="#FF0000">&#187;

Edaric:<font color="#000000">&#171; &#160;1d20+2 = 10 + 2 = 12&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187;

Gamal-Junayd:<font color="#000000">(Initiative Roll : &#171; &#160;1d20+7 = 12 + 7 = 19&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187;)

Masabel:<font color="#000000">Initiative: &#171; &#160;1d20+6 = 2 + 6 = 8&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187;

Tathi:<font color="#9933FF">&#171; &#160;1d20+floor((dexterity-10)/2) = 12 + floor((17 - 10) / 2) = 15&#160; <font color="#9933FF">&#187; initiative!

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">Is it time for fightink now? &#171; &#160;1d20+5 = 19 + 5 = 24&#160; <font color="#990000">&#187; Initiative!

Viceth:<font color="#000000">Initiative: &#171; &#160;1d20+2 = 16 + 2 = 18&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">:O

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">Spontaeneous afk.

* Edaric started playing as soon as Tom said &quot;let's go --&quot; add a +3 morale bonus to hit, damage, and saves against fear to that!

Aelian:<font color="#9933FF">&#171; &#160;1d20+5 = 7 + 5 = 12&#160; <font color="#9933FF">&#187; initiative!

Vonain (Goldeneye):<font color="#000000">Init: &#171; &#160;1d20+4 = 5 + 4 = 9&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187;

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">Great grandpa fell, hit his head, heard a crack.

Firaira:<font color="#9933FF">&#171; &#160;1d20+5 = 2 + 5 = 7&#160; <font color="#9933FF">&#187; Initiative!

* VAE headdesk

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">I texted grandma, waiting to see what she says should be done.

VAE:<font color="#000000">what.

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&#171; &#160;1d20+2 = 7 + 2 = 9&#160; <font color="#660033">&#187; Dex check!

VAE:<font color="#000000">Having this guy home doesn't seem like the best idea.

Gamal-Junayd:<font color="#000000">can we get the group buffs posted?

Gamal-Junayd:<font color="#000000">also, has the earlier aid gone away?

VAE:<font color="#000000">Miron - +2 to AC, saves and to hit everyone, luck

VAE:<font color="#000000">Edaric +3 morale hit, damage and saves against fear

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">Aid is definitely gone, yes.

VAE:<font color="#000000">Recitation is also to hit

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">It was only 11 minutes.

VAE:<font color="#000000">you just have luck AC /saves

VAE:<font color="#000000">it's hit AC saves

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">Okay

Flying Terror 2:<font color="#000000">What awaits you are creatures out of nightmare. Flaming quadrupedal beasts, in red-hot suits of infernal chain, stalk the platforms above you. Their eyes and maws gleam with white-hot flames in the dark cavern that stretches up a good eighty feet to a dark ceiling, and as you watch, they tilt their heads back in unison with an eerie howl that chills you to the bone. Wings of stringy flesh and flame unfold from their backs! &#171; &#160;1d20+8 = 12 + 8 = 20&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187; &#171;  &#160;1d20+8 = 14 + 8 = 22&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">Meh.

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">It's only a model.

Tathi:<font color="#9933FF">First contact knowledge check, DM?

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">*brick'd*

Flying Terror 2:<font color="#000000">Planar would do nicely.

Shankfang the Deffrider has received initiative.Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">Knowledge: Planes &#171; &#160;1d20+10 = 15 + 10 = 25&#160; <font color="#FF0000">&#187;

Tathi:<font color="#9933FF">&#171; &#160;1d20+18 = 8 + 18 = 26&#160; <font color="#9933FF">&#187; knowledge planes!

Miron:<font color="#000000">&#171; &#160;1d20+8 = 20 + 8 = 28&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187; Planar

Tathi:<font color="#9933FF">Also?

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&gt;|

Tathi:<font color="#9933FF">Tathi closes her eyes briefly.. and opens her mind to the wealth of knowledge within. Loremaster check. &#171; &#160;1d20+10+5 = 5 + 10 + 5 = 20&#160; <font color="#9933FF">&#187; knoweldge check, much like bardic knowledge, on various topics.

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">Is this actual combat, or surprise round? :.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt makes doubly-sure his mechanical disc belt buckle is aimed upwards.

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">I think it's standard combat.

Flying Terror 2:<font color="#000000">They look vaguely like hellhounds... but twisted even further. Perhaps a breed tainted with the blood of higher fiends, or weaned onto the suffering of the innocent, but whatever it is, these are clearly not your average Nessian warhounds. Immune to fire as all hellhounds are, and vulnerable to cold -- but I'd watch out for spell-like abilities, or even other resistances.

Miron:<font color="#000000">If I had the wealth of knowledge her head has in my pocket, I'd be a pauper.

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">Lia? Standard combat or surprise round?

Tathi:<font color="#9933FF">&quot;These are.. some manner of even more depraved breed of hellhound.. I'm going to need a clear shot for my cone of cold spell to really hurt them.&quot;

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Standard.

Ghostwish:<font color="#9933FF">C'mon ram.. is -either- side surprised or unaware?

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Hell-mutts.&quot;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">Alrighty then!

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Indeed... this seems like it was bred with something worse.&quot;

Red Rock:<font color="#FF0000">HELMETS?

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m8caccG8l11qik1lzo1_400.jpg

Liatai:<font color="#000000">*snrk*

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">After doing some quick math, they're still within a single range incriment of Rose. &gt;:3

Liatai:<font color="#000000">I should watch that movie sometime. ... With someone I can MST3K it up with. :B

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Perhaps its ancestors fucked a pit fiend.&quot;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">Also, they could have easily been surprised by us, you know, suddenly bursting through the door. :P

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">Anyway~

Red Rock:<font color="#FF0000">*loudly after talking and casting for two minutes

Meany:<font color="#660033">Okay, I'm back.

Red Rock:<font color="#FF0000">Also they're above us.

Red Rock:<font color="#FF0000">Surprise! *bricked*

Meany:<font color="#660033">Great grandpa isn't going to the hospital yet.

Meany:<font color="#660033">Because he doesn't want to go, and I am not cleared to use the chloroform.

Meany:<font color="#660033">:T

* VAE sigh

VAE:<font color="#000000">poor owl

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">First shot, Shankfang bounces a bullet off the pillar and into number 2! &#171; &#160;1d20+19-4+1+3+2 = 15 + 19 - 4 + 1 + 3 + 2 = 36&#160; <font color="#990000">&#187; for &#171;  &#160;4d6+2+3 = 13 + 2 + 3 = 18&#160; <font color="#990000">&#187; damage!

Flying Terror 2:<font color="#000000">The bullet strikes home!

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Though... given there's so many dead fiends.. this piece of fuck might well be hurt.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;After all.. someone's passed through, quite clearly.&quot;

Flying Terror 2:<font color="#000000">Shankfang's bullet draws a stream of fire from the beast's back, and it growls.. then gives a jackal's grin.

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">C-c-c-combo time! Second shot, Shankfang tosses a bullet into the air as he fills Rose's barrel with powder. As the bullet comes down, he pulls the powder horn from Rose and points it straight up in the air. The bullet falls neatly into the barrel, and Shankfang levels and fires! &#171; &#160;1d20+19-4+1+3+2 = 12 + 19 - 4 + 1 + 3 + 2 = 33&#160; <font color="#990000">&#187; for &#171;  &#160;4d6+2+1+3 = 18 + 2 + 1 + 3 = 24&#160; <font color="#990000">&#187; damage!

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">Oh forgot to mention, this is all force damage, and using Haste.

Flying Terror 2:<font color="#000000">The bullet slams into it. It doesn't lose that grin.

Meany:<font color="#660033">...

Meany:<font color="#660033">Are these...

Meany:<font color="#660033">Nessian War Hyenas?!

Meany:<font color="#660033">RUN.

Meany:<font color="#660033">RUN FOR YOUR MEANINGLESS LIVES.

Glitch:<font color="#000000">(which begs the question of how he can ricochet blasts of force but okay Shankfang's gun works off DBZ. :B )

Flying Terror 2:<font color="#000000">It gives a cackle much like a distorted hyena's laugh -- Meany stole my line.

VAE:<font color="#000000">. ..

VAE:<font color="#000000">I read it as Russian War Hyena

Meany:<font color="#660033">Hyenas crossbred with siberian tigers.

Meany:<font color="#660033">RUN FASTER FOR YOUR MEANINGLESS LIVES.

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;SCTOP GRINNINK VEN HY SCHOOT HYU!&quot; &gt;:O Final shot, Shankfang powders Rose and tosses her up in the air! As the gun spins and falls, he throws a bullet straight down the barrel, then catches it on his finger, spins and fires! &#171; &#160;1d20+19-4+2+3+2+1 = 4 + 19 - 4 + 2 + 3 + 2 + 1 = 27&#160; <font color="#990000">&#187; for &#171;  &#160;4d6+2+3+2 = 15 + 2 + 3 + 2 = 22&#160; <font color="#990000">&#187; Force damage!

VAE:<font color="#000000">&quot;I em Nessian Var Haund end zis is var.&quot;

Glitch:<font color="#000000">I don't suppose it's necessary to lay down the anti-teleport zone template just yet, huh?

Flying Terror 2:<font color="#000000">The creature keeps grinning, even after its third bullet hit. If anything it's chuckling louder.

Gamal-Junayd:<font color="#000000">&quot;Hey shankfang, if it really likes getting shot, then doesn't it make a great target to practice? Maybe it's a masochist or something.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Just wanted to say.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;I don't like it either.&quot;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">Techy he ricochets force the same way he gets a damage and attack bonus just by liking his gun a lot, and buffs his attack and damage by doing tricks, and will eventually be able to spread weapon enchantments just by switching pistols really fucking fast.

Shankfang the Deffrider:<i><font color="#990000">He's a fucking Gunman.

</i>Glitch:<font color="#000000">Ram; i know. I wasn't complaining. Just being MST3K, as it were. :B

Meany:<font color="#660033">Um.

Red Rock:<font color="#FF0000">I read that as Gundam.

Meany:<font color="#660033">If this is going where I think it's going.

Meany:<font color="#660033">It's a Wobbafett effect.

Meany:<font color="#660033">So yeah.

Glitch:<font color="#000000">just going &quot;haha, look at that&quot; and then moving on-- ohgod. o.o

Glitch:<i><font color="#000000">Lia did that Houndoom use Bide? &gt;:O

</i>VAE:<font color="#000000">holy carp guys

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">Anyway, turn over.

VAE:<font color="#000000">My plug was unpulled partially ,on lappy

VAE:<font color="#000000">I noticed with battery at 8%

Meany:<font color="#660033">Gasp.

Gamal-Junayd:<font color="#000000">hate when that happens

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">I swear Lia if these guys are immune to me shooting at them I am going to be so fucking pissed. =3=

Ghostwish:<font color="#9933FF">brb, grabbin' a snack

VAE:<font color="#000000">I'd have dropped and you'd have no fucking clue why

Teeny Rin:<font color="#FF0000">Is a Christmas miracle.

Flying Terror 1:<font color="#000000">One of the creatures leaps into the air, soaring from its perch, landing with a WHAM on the wall just above the door. It chuckles, and then, rearing its head back, it SCREAMS.

Tomiko Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">And it lands.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">Right in front.

Tomiko Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">Of the Lazarus twins.

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Maah, hyu're loud.&quot; Shankfang rubs his ear.

Flying Terror 1:<font color="#000000">Everyone within that range... What's your HD?

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">Uh, 10?

Tomiko Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">11's.

Ghostwish:<font color="#9933FF">posting all your reactions before the actual effect: too hipster for common sense.

Miron:<font color="#000000">10

Gamal-Junayd:<font color="#000000">10. since we don't spontaneous level mid dungeon

Tathi:<font color="#9933FF">11.

Aelian:<font color="#9933FF">9.

Firaira:<font color="#9933FF">10.

Teeny Rin:<font color="#FF0000">Go back to the other window Statler. :3

Flying Terror 1:<font color="#000000">SR - &#171; &#160;1d20+12 = 20 + 12 = 32&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187; Sszeyl &#171;  &#160;1d20+12 = 3 + 12 = 15&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187; Altonor &#171;  &#160;1d20+12 = 4 + 12 = 16&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187; Viceth &#171;  &#160;1d20+12 = 9 + 12 = 21&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187; Firaira &#171;  &#160;1d20+12 = 15 + 12 = 27&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187; Masabel

Ghostwish:<font color="#9933FF">statler?

Teeny Rin:<font color="#FF0000">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statler_and_Waldorf

Ghostwish:<font color="#9933FF">holy shit you actually know their names? Hipster.

* Ghostwish ducks.

Flying Terror 1:<font color="#000000">The 12 HDs are dazed for 1 round -- they can defend themselves normally, but take no actions.

Meany:<font color="#660033">Sszeyl has nine.

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">Aww dammit.

Glitch:<font color="#000000">Oops, sorry, unnannounced afk

Glitch:<font color="#000000">Vonain and Gnogglebolt are both 10 HD

Flying Terror 1:<font color="#000000">Those who are 7 to 11 HD, you are also dazed, and weakened -- your Strength score weakens by &#171; &#160;2d6 = 11&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187; for &#171;  &#160;2d4 = 2&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187; rounds. The hellhound's scream seems to contain, somehow, EVERYTHING most vile to your ears. From the screams of the immolated to pronouncements against your deity to even the simple &quot;going out of business&quot; on a favorite store -- Everyone hears it differently, but everyone is affected. Except Altonor and Viceth -- they lucked out on their SR rolls. Jeez.

Vonain (Goldeneye):<font color="#000000">&quot;GNNNNRG!&quot; Vonain nearly drops to the ground from being so weakened!

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">... That drops half the party from their encumberment. =w=;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">...Don't even get a save?

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">And Gnogglebolt becomes effectively immobile--yeah.

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">Fucking magic. =3=

Gamal-Junayd:<font color="#000000">4 str....I'm left at 4 str.

Gamal-Junayd:<font color="#000000">how many people are at 0?

VAE:<font color="#000000">Miron is prone, byw

Kep'salion:<font color="#000000">Kep'salion also crumples to the ground -- &#171; &#160;1d20+13 = 1 + 13 = 14&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187; Ride check --

Meany:<font color="#660033">Sszeyl is at 11.

Meany:<font color="#660033">^^;

Glitch:<font color="#000000">--wwaitaminute.

Kep'salion:<font color="#000000">Aaaaand Altonor just got pinned under Kep.

Glitch:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt is -down-.

Glitch:<font color="#000000">I mean down down.

Glitch:<font color="#000000">His Str is 9.

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">Ah, yep. I'm at over max encumberment.

Glitch:<font color="#000000">He can't move a muscle now.

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">Indeed.

Tomiko Lazarus has received initiative.Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">My strength score is now 4. :B

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Dazed...

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">With an undignified squeak, Gnogglebolt goes completely limp.

Tomiko Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">I -

Gamal-Junayd:<font color="#000000">I'm...only to medium load cause I carry almost nothing that has weight

Tomiko Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">|(

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">So, Tomi is the only one that can do anything.

Glitch:<font color="#000000">...Tomiko, aren't you still carrying adamantine plates? :B

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">Assuming Doktor does what I think he's gonna do. :B

Aelian:<font color="#9933FF">Aelian is barely upright, hardly able to move under his own gear.. but Tathi crumples to the ground.

* Shankfang the Deffrider shudders, his knees strain, but he manages to stay on his feet, if only just.

Firaira:<font color="#9933FF">Firaria is -.. um shit can you die from your strength score going negative?

Tomiko Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">I doubt it. The DM passed me by for the next one.

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">No.

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">Sszeyl is weakened...but not out of the fight.

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">No.

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">But you do become helpless.

Firaira:<font color="#9933FF">Okay, phew, she's just down.

Glitch:<font color="#000000">No, you don't die if your Str score goes to 0 (it can't go negative)

Glitch:<font color="#000000">You just become completely immobile and helpless and can't do anything.

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">But...but Tomi can actually do stuff?

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">Iron Heart Purge?

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">Or was it Surge?

Flying Terror 2:<font color="#000000">The other hellhound cackles louder, before rearing its head back and howling. The ground beneath you roils with fel energy --

Tomiko Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">That still takes an action, and I'm still dazed.

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">Oh.

Miron:<font color="#000000">Inquisitor Steelsprocket crosses his arms on his chest and kneels, while droning monotonously. &quot;The way of Hextor is the way of law which I can not resist. I must cease and dessist, and await judgement.&quot;

Flying Terror 2:<font color="#000000">Prepare to roll more saves.

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">You mean our first saves? :P

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">But we didn't roll any saves. ^^;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">^

VAE:<font color="#000000">^

Flying Terror 2:<font color="#000000">Everyone within that blast who is Good can roll Will for half of &#171; &#160;5d8 = 10&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187; damage -- doy. :P

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">Should we have?

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">x3

Flying Terror 2:<font color="#000000">Those who are Neutral can roll for half of 5, and Miron can roll for half of 3. Vonain, though...

Gamal-Junayd:<font color="#000000">cause I'm now in medium load I've..lost 2 ac and 10 feet of movement, my reflex lowers, and I can't add my int to damage from class abilities.

Gamal-Junayd:<font color="#000000">(Will Save : &#171; &#160;1d20+5 = 19 + 5 = 24&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187;)

Miron:<font color="#000000">&#171; &#160;1d20+13 = 6 + 13 = 19&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&#171; &#160;1d20+15 = 17 + 15 = 32&#160; <font color="#FF0000">&#187;

Tomiko Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&#171; &#160;1d20+5 = 10 + 5 = 15&#160; <font color="#FF0000">&#187;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Okay, what save are we rolling to avoid/reduce the Str damage?

VAE:<font color="#000000">What's the DC?

Swallowtail:<font color="#FF0000">&#171; &#160;1d20+7 = 11 + 7 = 18&#160; <font color="#FF0000">&#187;

Gamal-Junayd:<font color="#000000">yeahj please let there be a save on that

VAE:<font color="#000000">To reduce the strength sdamage?

VAE:<font color="#000000">you can't

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">I'm getting sick of all these will saves. =3= &#171; &#160;1d20+2 = 6 + 2 = 8&#160; <font color="#990000">&#187;

Flying Terror 2:<font color="#000000">He has to roll Will for half of &#171; &#160;10d6 = 41&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187;. SR checks incoming... The Will DC is a mere 14.

VAE:<font color="#000000">That's the fun bit

Vonain (Goldeneye):<font color="#000000">awwww crap. Will : &#171; &#160;1d20+9 = 3 + 9 = 12&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">Because buggering no-save magic. &gt;:E

Vonain (Goldeneye):<b><font color="#000000">shit.

</b>Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&#171; &#160;1d20+11+mod = 10 + 11 + 0 = 21&#160; <font color="#660033">&#187; Will save!

Gamal-Junayd:<font color="#000000">11 str damage aoe with no save kinda sucks. oh wel

Vonain (Goldeneye):<font color="#000000">Right after almost being brought to his knees from being weakened...

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">Should be 23, forgot bonuses.

Vonain (Goldeneye):<font color="#000000">Vonain takes the full brunt of the blast and is very nearly keeled over!

Teeny Rin:<font color="#FF0000">Well, to be fair, the strength damage is irrelevant.

Flying Terror 2:<font color="#000000">SR - Sszeyl &#171; &#160;1d20+12 = 15 + 12 = 27&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187; Altonor &#171;  &#160;1d20+12 = 16 + 12 = 28&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187; Viceth &#171;  &#160;1d20+12 = 17 + 12 = 29&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187; Masabel &#171;  &#160;1d20+12 = 1 + 12 = 13&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187; Firaira &#171;  &#160;1d20+12 = 20 + 12 = 32&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187;

Teeny Rin:<font color="#FF0000">Because you're also dazed. :B

Sszeyl: <font color="#660033">(( Um. ))

Sszeyl: <font color="#660033">(( Will for both? ))

Sszeyl: <font color="#660033">(( I assume? ))

Flying Terror 2:<font color="#000000">Nope, the Will was just against the blight damage.

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">Drats.

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">Oh, Vonain!

Flying Terror 2:<font color="#000000">Now, who's Good and rolled less than a 14?

Edaric:<font color="#000000">&#171; &#160;1d20+7 = 17 + 7 = 24&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187;

Vonain (Goldeneye):<font color="#000000">Me. I already accounted for the damage.

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">Did you add the +2 from Recitation for your Will save?

Altonor:<font color="#000000">&#171; &#160;1d20+10 = 2 + 10 = 12&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187;

VAE:<font color="#000000">did he?

Kep'salion:<font color="#000000">&#171; &#160;1d20+5 = 17 + 5 = 22&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187;

VAE:<font color="#000000">Because that'd make him 14 and pass, if he forgot

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">Because if you didn't, that gives you a 14.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Oh, I forgot to save, myself. Will: &#171; &#160;1d20+9 = 4 + 9 = 13&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187;

Ghostwish: <font color="#9933ff">(( back, what I miss- oh for fuck's sake. ))

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">dammit, I didn't make it either.

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">Are you adding your +2?

Ghostwish: <font color="#9933ff">(( Okay, yeah, gonna have to make a personal rule right now. ))

VAE:<font color="#000000">?

Flying Terror 2:<font color="#000000">Those who are Good and failed are sickened for &#171; &#160;1d4 = 2&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187; rounds.

Glitch:<font color="#000000">Shankfang the Deffrider: Did you add the +2 from Recitation for your Will save?

Glitch:<font color="#000000">Oh!!

Ghostwish: <font color="#9933ff">(( For now on? My characters aren't bunched with the rest. DM is AoE happy. ))

Glitch:<font color="#000000">No, I did not!

VAE:<font color="#000000">AHahhaahah

Liatai:<font color="#000000">It's just these enemies! XD

Glitch:<font color="#000000">Both Vonain and Gnogglebolt saved, in that case

Ghostwish: <font color="#9933ff">(( no, no it isn't. XP ))

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">She isn't AoE happy.. :B

VAE:<font color="#000000">Eell

VAE:<font color="#000000">well

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Every one of these guys has Unholy Blight. XD

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">She's ridiculously AoE lenient.

VAE:<font color="#000000">Show nme how you wouldn't be bunched up right now

Ghostwish:<font color="#9933FF">Really?

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">Really.

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">I wouldn't mind so much if they weren't all freaking Will saves. =3=

Vonain (Goldeneye):<font color="#000000">&#171; &#160;41/2 = 41 / 2 = 20.5&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187;

Ghostwish:<font color="#9933FF">Kindly go over the logs and tell me about the last three battles.

Vonain (Goldeneye):<font color="#000000">&#171; &#160;54-20 = 54 - 20 = 34&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187;

Meany:<font color="#660033">Hatari has 'Nam flashbacks to 3e.

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">Take your d4's like a man.

Meany:<font color="#660033">*brick'd*

Vonain (Goldeneye):<font color="#000000">Okay, Vonain isn't quite almost keeled over.

Ghostwish:<font color="#9933FF">Uh, no, I am a wizard. I do not take any damage at all, I run screaming from it like a little girl.

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">Or no-save...

Ghostwish:<font color="#9933FF">My -hitdice- is d4.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">And Gnogglebolt is only minorly dented from the unholy blast.

Viceth:<font color="#000000">&#171; &#160;1d20+14 = 7 + 14 = 21&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187;

Gamal-Junayd has received initiative.Viceth has received initiative.Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">Good thing I'm CN. I failed my Will sa-FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF-

GM:<font color="#000000">Viceth, you're the only one not pinned under a horse who can take an action this round.

Gamal-Junayd:<font color="#000000">the only real problem I have. is that everyone has just been taken out of the fight for 1-2 rounds due to a no save abiity, allowing them to basically get multiple turns of laying down aoe's

Tathi:<font color="#9933FF">&#171; &#160;1d20+will = 8 + 12 = 20&#160; <font color="#9933FF">&#187; +2 if its enchantment!

GM:<font color="#000000">What do you do?

Gamal-Junayd:<font color="#000000">before we even had a chance to spread out

Aelian:<font color="#9933FF">&#171; &#160;1d20+will = 9 + 7 = 16&#160; <font color="#9933FF">&#187; +2 if it's enchantment!

Firaira:<font color="#9933FF">&#171; &#160;1d20+8 = 12 + 8 = 20&#160; <font color="#9933FF">&#187; Will save!

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">Wait.

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">That breaks my combo dammit! &gt;:E

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">I thought he was still dazed one round?

Gamal-Junayd:<font color="#000000">sr

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">Ah.

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Nope. Altonor and Viceth scraped by on their SR.

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Altonor is just stuck under a pegasus because he botched his Ride check when Kep went down. :B

GM:<font color="#000000">So. What's a warmage to do, Railock?

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">Wait...

Viceth:<font color="#000000">okay. mass fire shield, electric substitution. looking at spell. it doesn't say how many it effects

Ghostwish:<font color="#9933FF">Yeah. Tathi's down to 6 hp after one attack. Not. Grouping. Anymore.

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">AHA IT DOESN'T BREAK MY COMBO I GET A ONE ROUND BUFFER! &gt;:D

Viceth:<font color="#000000">but..I think it just is allies in range making it..EVERYONE!

GM:<font color="#000000">Everyone within 30 feet of you, pretty much. Which means pretty much everyone. :3

GM:<font color="#000000">Everyone now has both Fire Shield and Electric Fire Shield. Woo!

GM:<font color="#000000">... this also means you're sparking and on fire.

Viceth:<font color="#000000">yeah. everyone gets mass fire shield, electricity. now...that substitution..that means they take electric damage if htey attack?

GM:<font color="#000000">Yep.

Viceth:<font color="#000000">and resist fire still?

Viceth:<font color="#000000">then, stepping back adn around corner

Viceth:<font color="#000000">done

GM:<font color="#000000">Fire or cold, your choice.

GM:<font color="#000000">The first one was fire.

Viceth:<font color="#000000">they look firey. resist fire

Teeny Rin:<font color="#FF0000">Having 26 hp at level 11 is a problem in and of itself! No formation position is going to change that. =w=;

Tathi has received initiative.Swallowtail has received initiative.Glitch:<font color="#000000">(resist fires don't stack from the same spell)

Swallowtail has received initiative.Aelian has received initiative.Edaric has received initiative.Vonain (Goldeneye) has received initiative.Sszeyl has received initiative.Masabel has received initiative.Teeny Rin:<font color="#FF0000">AoE's gonna happen.

Thomas Lazarus has received initiative.Firaira has received initiative.Glitch:<font color="#000000">...wow, this is the fastest round evar. :B

VAE:<font color="#000000">yeah

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ytCEuuW2_A

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">XP

* Altonor uses his turn to get out from under his mount. &quot;C'mon, Kep, they're just dogs. We'll fight 'em on the ground if we have to!&quot;

Gnogglebolt has received initiative.Miron has received initiative.Shankfang the Deffrider has received initiative.Flying Terror 1:<font color="#000000">Luckily, you're no longer stunned!

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">I'm not? :O

Flying Terror 1:<font color="#000000">Unluckily, this guy's taken the opportunity to take a pot-shot snap at Tomiko. Bite &#171; &#160;1d20+22 = 2 + 22 = 24&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187; &#171;  &#160;2d6+14 = 4 + 14 = 18&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187; plus &#171;  &#160;1d8 = 8&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187; fire and two claws &#171;  &#160;1d20+16 = 7 + 16 = 23&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187; &#171;  &#160;1d6+10 = 6 + 10 = 16&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187; and &#171;  &#160;1d20+16 = 17 + 16 = 33&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187; &#171;  &#160;1d6+10 = 6 + 10 = 16&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187; as it hangs down from the doorway!

Tomiko Lazarus has received initiative.Tomiko Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">Shuddering, shaking, she glances up and moves to intercept the bite. &quot;!!&quot;

Flying Terror 1:<font color="#000000">Might be a bad choice. Tomi's no longer dazed, but still is suffering Strength damage.

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">No Wall of Blades? :.

Viceth:<font color="#000000">&#171; &#160;1d6+15 = 2 + 15 = 17&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187; from fire shield

Tomiko Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">There's a quick blur as the warrior suddenly backhands the attack. Her staggering strength threatens to completely deflect it! (Immediate - Wall of Blades counter: &#171; &#160;1d20+22+mod = 8 + 22 + -6 = 24&#160; <font color="#FF0000">&#187; Treat the result as AC versus one incoming attack.)

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">Ah, there it is.

Flying Terror 1:<font color="#000000">YELP!

Tomiko Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">So close. But she gets bitten regardless. She's just too weak.

Flying Terror 1:<font color="#000000">It didn't expect the taser! DX

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">That's three, right? One ofr each attack?

Flying Terror 1:<font color="#000000">One off each attack that hits. So, how many hit? :3

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">All of them. :B

Flying Terror 1:<font color="#000000">&#171; &#160;1d6+15 = 2 + 15 = 17&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187; &#171;  &#160;1d6+15 = 2 + 15 = 17&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">So take 3d6+45 damage!

Tomiko Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">^

Viceth:<font color="#000000">it's taking about as much as it deals

Ghostwish: <font color="#9933ff">(( augh, brb again ))

Viceth:<font color="#000000">so..who's hp runs out first, tomi's or it's

Flying Terror 1:<font color="#000000">It keeps up that infernal cackling, as though daring Tomiko to make a move.

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">As if Tomi's will run out first. :P

Flying Terror 1:<font color="#000000">It's her turn. :3

Glitch:<font color="#000000">I also just decremented the str weakening, btw.

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">You missed one, Lia!

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">I'll need a minute to recalculate my everything. XP

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">Three attacks, right?

Gamal-Junayd:<font color="#000000">I rolled first as viceth

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">Oooooh, missed that. :B

* Tomiko Lazarus grips her fists tightly and looks up. &quot;...&quot; She's not about to lay down and say die just from a roar and a sneering fiend in her face.

Tomiko Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">Tumble &#171; &#160;1d20+18 = 18 + 18 = 36&#160; <font color="#FF0000">&#187;

* Tomiko Lazarus darts and dives around to the creature's other side and launches into an attack! A kick into its flank, and an uppercut into its belly!! Snap Kick and Bonecrusher, haste, them buffs. &#171; &#160;1d20+21+5-6 = 10 + 21 + 5 - 6 = 30&#160;  &#187;&#171;  &#160;3d6+1d6+3+1+4d6 = 3 + 5 + 3 + 1 + 11 = 23&#160;  &#187; &#171;  &#160;1d20+17+5-6 = 1 + 17 + 5 - 6 = 17&#160;  &#187; &#171;  &#160;3d6+1d6+3 = 14 + 4 + 3 = 21&#160;  &#187;

Ghostwish: <font color="#9933ff">(( back ))

Tomiko Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">The kick is no good. But she's strong even while weakened this badly.

Flying Terror 1:<font color="#000000">Do Tomi's uppercuts count as magic?

Tomiko Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">They actually do. Magic and silver.

Tomiko Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">She's using Ironheart gloves.

Flying Terror 1:<font color="#000000">PUNCH! A nice solid thit that throws sparks!

Flying Terror 1:<font color="#000000">* hit

Flying Terror 2:<font color="#000000">WHAM. A second one hits the ground behind her! &#171; &#160;1d20+22+2 = 20 + 22 + 2 = 44&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187; &#171;  &#160;2d6+14 = 7 + 14 = 21&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187; bite -- the fire shield negates the extra fire damage.

* Thomas Lazarus has drooped quite a bit. The only thing keeping him upright seems to be the holy magic he used moments ago.

Flying Terror 2:<font color="#000000">Crit &#171; &#160;1d20+24 = 2 + 24 = 26&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187;

Tomiko Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">Your two still confirms. =w=;;;

VAE:<font color="#000000">Tomi has an AC of 14?

VAE:<font color="#000000">. . . how

Flying Terror 2:<font color="#000000">&#171; &#160;21+2d6+14 = 21 + 4 + 14 = 39&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187; OUCH.

* You roll to yourself: 1d10 =&gt; 3Flying Terror 2:<font color="#000000">Tomi gets a solid CRUNCH to her right arm. You can hear the bones snapping.

Glitch:<font color="#000000">danman; because that's how Warblades roll. :B

Gamal-Junayd has received initiative.Tomiko Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">She takes a bite from behind that would wreck an ordinary human. But she's still up.

Gamal-Junayd:<font color="#000000">thought dazewas for 2 rounds?

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Daze was 1 round.

Glitch:<font color="#000000">she's always been using her Wall of Blades intercept technique to substitute AC every time she gets hit.

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">Daze for one. Strength for 2.

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">Apparently.

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Strength damage was two.

Gamal-Junayd:<font color="#000000">okay

VAE:<font color="#000000">Well, I never played a warblade

VAE:<font color="#000000">nor do I know jackshit about them

Glitch:<font color="#000000">To repeat and make sure it wasn't lost; I decremented the Weakened bar from 2 rounds to 1 when the Nessian's turn rolled around.

Glitch:<font color="#000000">Danman; neither have I, and I don't know anything about them either.

Tomiko Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">I have medium armor proficiency, high mobility, and -2 AC from stance. -2 AC from rage. -2 AC from charge. -4 AC if I use Rabid Wolf.

Glitch:<font color="#000000">I've just been watching what she does in-game. :B

Tomiko Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">Why would I waste my gold trying to get to 20 AC when these things have +24 hit?

* Gamal-Junayd spins takes a five foot step, and then swings his weakened blades for all he can. with buffs, str drain, and flank, coems out to +2 hit -2 damage

RAM:<font color="#990000">It depends on how you build them, really.

Gamal-Junayd:<font color="#000000">(d20 Roll: &#171; &#160;Roll = 1d20 = Roll = 7 = 7&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187;) (Attack Roll : &#171;  &#160;Roll+17+AMod = 7 + 17 + 2 = 26&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187;) (Damage Roll: &#171;  &#160;Dam = 2d6+6+DMod = Dam = (8 + 6 + -2) = 12&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187;) ''

Gamal-Junayd:<font color="#000000">(d20 Roll: &#171; &#160;Roll = 1d20 = Roll = 8 = 8&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187;) (Attack Roll : &#171;  &#160;Roll+17+AMod = 8 + 17 + 2 = 27&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187;) (Damage Roll: &#171;  &#160;Dam = 2d6+4+DMod = Dam = (10 + 4 + -2) = 12&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187;) ''

Gamal-Junayd:<font color="#000000">(d20 Roll: &#171; &#160;Roll = 1d20 = Roll = 6 = 6&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187;) (Attack Roll : &#171;  &#160;Roll+12+AMod = 6 + 12 + 2 = 20&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187;) (Damage Roll: &#171;  &#160;Dam = 2d6+6+DMod = Dam = (3 + 6 + -2) = 7&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187;) ''

Liatai:<font color="#000000">... Where the heck -is- Gamal, I can't see him through the buffs. XD

Gamal-Junayd:<font color="#000000">(d20 Roll: &#171; &#160;Roll = 1d20 = Roll = 15 = 15&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187;) (Attack Roll : &#171;  &#160;Roll+12+AMod = 15 + 12 + 2 = 29&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187;) (Damage Roll: &#171;  &#160;Dam = 2d6+4+DMod = Dam = (7 + 4 + -2) = 9&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187;) Crit Threat! (Confirmation Roll : &#171; &#160;1d20+12+AMod = 6 + 12 + 2 = 20&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187;) (Crit Damage Roll: &#171;  &#160;Dam +1d6+4+DMod = 9 + 3 + 4 + -2 = 14&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187;)

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Oh there he is.

Gamal-Junayd:<font color="#000000">oh damn, forgot

Gamal-Junayd:<font color="#000000">-3 on each attacks damage

Flying Terror 1:<font color="#000000">Clang -- HIT! Clang -- HIT!

Gamal-Junayd:<font color="#000000">medium load makes me do less damage

Tomiko Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">Did Terror 2 atleast get shocked from biting my arm off? |D;;

Flying Terror 2:<font color="#000000">&#171; &#160;1d6+15 = 3 + 15 = 18&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187; Now I did. YIPE!

Gamal-Junayd:<font color="#000000">dodge on 1, and done

RAM:<font color="#990000">Warblades built like Tomi and Espada are made more for overwhelming offensive strength. They get their staying power from abilities that deflect single attacks and grant temporary HP. :B

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">Let's see. The first round of low str was last round, during daze. This was the second round. So on Tomi's next turn, she'll have full str, yes?

VAE:<font color="#000000">right

VAE:<font color="#000000">so soak up damage rather than avoid

RAM:<font color="#990000">But I'm sure you could build them like traditional tanks, too.

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Yep.

Viceth has received initiative.RAM:<font color="#990000">And those single high-damage attacks can usually be entirely negated by Wall of Blades.

VAE:<font color="#000000">As an aside, are both of these things flying, or just one

RAM:<font color="#990000">Or even deflected to another enemy with Manticore Parry.

GM:<font color="#000000">Just one.

VAE:<font color="#000000">good

Viceth:<font color="#000000">are they both 10 feet off the ground?

GM:<font color="#000000">And it's not even flying, really, it's perching on the door jamb.

VAE:<font color="#000000">Hmm

GM:<font color="#000000">2 is on the ground, 1 is hanging out on the door jamb.

Teeny Rin:<font color="#FF0000">The first one is hanging above us being a cheeky monkey on the archway. The further one is on the ground.

Viceth:<font color="#000000">just one? okay well then, peeking around the corner. evards black tentacles. lets see if we can drag em down to the ground

VAE:<font color="#000000">Would Miron be able to reach 1 from the ground?

GM:<font color="#000000">You sure? Tomi's in there.

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">Technically, no, not even by D&amp;D standards.

Viceth:<font color="#000000">no, she's not

* VAE curious how high this door frame is

GM:<font color="#000000">Ooh. Very clever.

GM:<font color="#000000">I missed your template.

RAM:<font color="#990000">Nice.

VAE:<font color="#000000">He can attack either, see. I'm just thinking which one it will be

Viceth:<font color="#000000">&#171; &#160;1d20+19 = 1 + 19 = 20&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187; grapple on 1, &#171;  &#160;1d20+19 = 12 + 19 = 31&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187; grapple on 2

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">Since Miron only threatens out 5ft, his square + his reach is 10ft up. The baddie is one square up past that.

VAE:<font color="#000000">I see

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">So no touch without a stellar jumpcheck.

VAE:<font color="#000000">Not likely.

RAM:<font color="#990000">Ugh I'm gonna be exhausted in the morning.

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">You could just sleep if you want. {:3

VAE:<font color="#000000">yeh

RAM:<font color="#990000">I'm not gonna miss out on the only thing Shankfang is useful for. =3=

VAE:<font color="#000000">I suggest we finish after this battle

VAE:<font color="#000000">for RAM's sake

VAE:<font color="#000000">You folks cut it early for owl and for me before

Flying Terror 2:<font color="#000000">A field of thin black tendrils suddenly springs out of the ground, tipped with spadelike shapes. They avoid Tomi, but try to wrap around this fiend -- &#171; &#160;1d20+26 = 17 + 26 = 43&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187; opposed!

Glitch:<font color="#000000">Oh yeah, adding the following to TeenyRin, but also pasting here just for visibility;

VAE:<font color="#000000">it's. .. fair practice

Flying Terror 2:<font color="#000000">It barely avoids it!

Viceth:<font color="#000000">that's a more visible template

Tathi has received initiative.GM:<font color="#000000">Tathi time! Swallowtail, Aelian, and Edaric are on deck -- wow, it's the NPC brigade.

RAM:<font color="#990000">Mmm, I'll just try to sleep after I get back.

Glitch:<font color="#000000">Strength 0 means that the character cannot move at all. He lies helpless on the ground. &#8226; Dexterity 0 means that the character cannot move at all. He stands motionless, rigid, and helpless. &#8226; Constitution 0 means that the character is dead. Intelligence 0 means that the character cannot think and is unconscious in a comalike stupor, helpless. &#8226; Wisdom 0 means that the character is withdrawn into a deep sleep filled with nightmares, helpless. &#8226; Charisma 0 means that the character is withdrawn into a cata-tonic, comalike stupor, helpless.

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">Unless Tathi has Sudden Still, I think she's sunk for now.

Glitch:<font color="#000000">in a nutshell; 0 Con is the only one where you die.

Glitch:<font color="#000000">--oh.

Glitch:<font color="#000000">TeenyRin already has it. :B

Tathi:<font color="#9933FF">Isn't she just now coming out of strength drain???

Glitch:<font color="#000000">Ghost; nope, one more round to go.

VAE:<font color="#000000">yeah

GM:<font color="#000000">Nope. Next round, and it's damage, not drain.

Glitch:<font color="#000000">Still helpless.

VAE:<font color="#000000">still helpless

Swallowtail has received initiative.VAE:<font color="#000000">Yeah

VAE:<font color="#000000">Drain is permanent

VAE:<font color="#000000">damage is temporary

VAE:<font color="#000000">(for stats)

Glitch:<font color="#000000">(Damage and Drain are very different, never confuse them. Damage goes away on its own. Drain is permanent.)

Glitch:<font color="#000000">(Fear Drain.)

Viceth:<font color="#000000">for drain, we'd need a lot of restoration

* Edaric is struggling even to stand. &quot; -- No -- you're lying --! &quot;

Swallowtail:<font color="#FF0000">Well. Poor Swallowtail has been knocked down to a rather devastating two strength. She is brought down to one knee and grits her teeth. But she's not down, atleast, and draws out her shooter. It gets aimed shakily at the hellhound before she vanishes in a wisp. &#171; &#160;1d20+11+3+2+2 = 10 + 11 + 3 + 2 + 2 = 28&#160; <font color="#FF0000">&#187; &#171;  &#160;1d4+4d6+3 = 2 + 14 + 3 = 19&#160; <font color="#FF0000">&#187; &#171;  &#160;1d20+6+3+2+2 = 7 + 6 + 3 + 2 + 2 = 20&#160; <font color="#FF0000">&#187; &#171;  &#160;1d4+4d6+3 = 1 + 10 + 3 = 14&#160; <font color="#FF0000">&#187; Fwip fwip! Bolts sail towards its eyes!

Flying Terror 1:<font color="#000000">Which hound?

Swallowtail:<font color="#FF0000">The closer one. 1

Flying Terror 1:<font color="#000000">The first bolt hits, but it seems to burn away a bit before it does. Still draws a nice shower of sparks, though!

Aelian has received initiative.Glitch:<font color="#000000">(man, I hope Aelian's bow isn't a Composite bow, or he can't pull it anymore)

Masabel:<font color="#000000">bet it is

Aelian:<font color="#9933FF">Thankfully, strength has nothing to do with drawing a bow like Aelian's. He growls softly under his breath. &quot;Have to.. take them down. now!&quot; He says, drawing a bead on hell hound 1

Glitch:<font color="#000000">er...no, my bad, can still use it, just with -2 attack roll penalty.

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">The dex fighters are in luck, here. :B

Aelian:<font color="#9933FF">Aelian quickly fires off a trio of arrows at the fiend in the span of a heartbeat, and at point blank range to boot! &#171; &#160;1d20+15-2+1 = 2 + 15 - 2 + 1 = 16&#160; <font color="#9933FF">&#187; for &#171;  &#160;1d8+4 = 2 + 4 = 6&#160; <font color="#9933FF">&#187;, &#171;  &#160;1d20+15-2+1 = 15 + 15 - 2 + 1 = 29&#160; <font color="#9933FF">&#187; for &#171;  &#160;1d8+4 = 2 + 4 = 6&#160; <font color="#9933FF">&#187; and &#171;  &#160;1d20+10-2+1 = 1 + 10 - 2 + 1 = 10&#160; <font color="#9933FF">&#187; for &#171;  &#160;1d8+4 = 2 + 4 = 6&#160; <font color="#9933FF">&#187; damage!

Swallowtail:<font color="#000000">&quot;Come ti permetti! L'imperatore - non sono stato dimenticato! Ho ancora il mio onore!&quot; Pardon the Babelfish.

Masabel:<font color="#000000">but bows take str penelties to damage

Aelian:<font color="#9933FF">ack. didn't see buffs..

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">+5 hit, +3 damage

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">Basically

Aelian:<font color="#9933FF">21 for 9, 34 for 9, and.. crit fumble. yuck

Flying Terror 1:<font color="#000000">Only the second arrow hits -- the third comes dangerously close to winging Tom.

Edaric has received initiative.Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;'' Cr..crud.. ''&quot; Tom pants in a near-panic, struggling for his breath.

RAM:<font color="#990000">IT HITS TOM! :B

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;'' Ed.. can you stand..?&quot; ''

Glitch:<font color="#000000">(incidentally, looking back and seeing the fluff on how the str-damaging scream works, I'm now trying to wonder what Gnogglebolt and Vonain consider most vile...)

* Thomas Lazarus seems to be trying his best to ignore his personal demons. Holy empowerment is helping him stay upright.

* Edaric pulls himself up onto one knee. &quot;Close... enough...&quot; He whispers a short phrase, gathering blue light around his hand. He reaches out to touch Tathi -- &#171; &#160;2d8+9 = 5 + 9 = 14&#160;  &#187; healing!

Tathi:<font color="#9933FF">&quot;Th-thanks.&quot; Tathi manages through ragged breathing.

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">Hmm...

Vonain (Goldeneye) has received initiative.Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">Vile...

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">I haven't the slightest clue for this guy. :B

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">He juts a thumb upwards.

Teeny Rin:<font color="#FF0000">Talfeera cheating on you.

Glitch:<font color="#000000">(Ram; actually, that isn't so hard.)

Teeny Rin:<font color="#FF0000">Also your gun jamming.

Teeny Rin:<font color="#FF0000">*bricked*

Glitch:<font color="#000000">(Imagine horrible things being done to Talfeera.)

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Or flashbacks to the fire.

Glitch:<font color="#000000">(that'd do it.)

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Or the Deffbike crashing in a horrid smoldering wreck.

Teeny Rin:<font color="#FF0000">WhyNotBoth.jpg

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">Okay sorry I'm done. :B

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Or everyone you know dying a torturous, screaming death before you. Or, heck.

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">srs scene

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">I didn't think that would really count as 'vile,' is all. :.

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Shankfang's huggy.

Liatai:<font color="#000000">A PORCUPINE. *BRICK'D*

Glitch:<font color="#000000">Ram; that's why I mentioned Talfeera.

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">I imagined &quot;VIle&quot; as more &quot;Disgusting&quot;

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">I still think a twisted image of Talfeera backstabbing would be the worst thing in the world for him.

Glitch:<font color="#000000">Imagine Oliver Veinfrost/Ocahilon's hands on her.

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">Hmm, good point.

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">Her being assaulted would not be as bad as her betraying.

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">But this should not become a contest. =w=;

Vonain (Goldeneye):<font color="#000000">Anyway.

Vonain (Goldeneye):<font color="#000000">Vonain, weakened to the point of barely being able to move, tries to raise his hand and aim through his allies at the Nessians. &quot;You're not...the first...sick voices...I've had in my ears!&quot; Carefully aimed RTA (firing into melee penalty) &#171; &#160;1d20+10-4 = 18 + 10 - 4 = 24&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187;!

Vonain (Goldeneye):<font color="#000000">That better be a hit. :B

Vonain (Goldeneye):<font color="#000000">SR check at the same time: &#171; &#160;1d20+10+4 = 15 + 10 + 4 = 29&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187;

VAE:<font color="#000000">Heh. With Miron... it fucked up his mind.. The cries of Kemmer's citizens, and those around him chanting prayers to Lolth...death of Commander Blackwood, the elven inquisitor telling him to fuck off and on top of all that, the voice of the Erinyes ordering him to hand over his badge and await judgement.

Vonain (Goldeneye):<font color="#000000">Oh yeah, on Terror 1, btw.

<i><font color="#0000ff">Dr. Hatari is disconnected.

</i><i><font color="#0000ff">Dr. Hatari is disconnected.

</i>Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">I guess I was just thinking differently for something 'vile.' :B

VAE:<font color="#000000">Hence, his reaction of going prone and chanting submission to Hextor

<i><font color="#0000ff">Dr. Hatari has connected.

</i>Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">Well that was fast.

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">Vonain (Goldeneye): That better be a hit. :B

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">Last line. ^

Vonain (Goldeneye):<font color="#000000">Anyway, if all that got through. &#171; &#160;5d6 = 18&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187; eldritch blast damage!

Glitch:<font color="#000000">Whispering...

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">Maybe I was lagging. &gt;:.

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">:44

Glitch:<font color="#000000">Hatari at :44?

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">Guess not.

Flying Terror 1:<font color="#000000">That's a solid hit! The creature looks somewhat baffled at being hit with an eldritch blast.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">Tom half-glances back to Ed and nods. &quot;'' Thanks.. gotta.. save my sis..&quot; ''

Vonain (Goldeneye):<font color="#000000">End turn, as well.

Sszeyl has received initiative.Edaric:<font color="#000000">&quot;I'll keep... folks safe back here. Be... careful,&quot; Ed pants, nodding.

GM:<font color="#000000">Sszeyl? Masabel, Tom, and Firaira are on deck.

Meany:<font color="#660033">Great grandpa is up again.

Meany:<font color="#660033">Spilled a large volume of milk.

Meany:<font color="#660033">Might fall.

Meany:<font color="#660033">Brb.

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Jeepers, man.

Glitch:<font color="#000000">._.;

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Why don't we keep moving, and Sszeyl can move when Meany gets back. |D;;;

Glitch:<font color="#000000">that's just terrible...

Masabel has received initiative.GM:<font color="#000000">Railock?

Meany:<font color="#660033">Okay.

Meany:<font color="#660033">He's sitting down.

GM:<font color="#000000">Or Meany, you go ahead. :3

GM:<font color="#000000">Sszeyl's turn.

Meany:<font color="#660033">Hmm.

Masabel:<font color="#000000">I'm sorry I'm back

Meany:<font color="#660033">Have they used AoOs? yet?

GM:<font color="#000000">No problem. Pre-type your actions, Rail, Masabel's on deck.

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">Nope.

GM:<font color="#000000">No AoOs used yet. Watch out for the tentacles.

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">Shit.

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">I'm sorry Tom.

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">But I must do dis.

Flying Terror 1:<font color="#000000">OM &#171; &#160;1d20+22 = 7 + 22 = 29&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187; &#171;  &#160;2d6+14 = 11 + 14 = 25&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187;

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">Running past them, make the AoOs.

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">Nope.

Flying Terror 2:<font color="#000000">NOM Bite &#171; &#160;1d20+22 = 10 + 22 = 32&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187; &#171;  &#160;2d6+14 = 10 + 14 = 24&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187;

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">That gets 'em.

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">Wait.

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">No.

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">His AC is... 33!

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">No it isn't.

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">Unless the 31 was counting the buff?

Flying Terror 2:<font color="#000000">&#171; &#160;1d6+15 = 6 + 15 = 21&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187; electrical backlash!

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">Because Miron's spell is giving us +2 Luck AC.

RAM:<font color="#990000">^

Sszeyl: <font color="#660033">(( 27 base. +2 Buff. +2 Shield. ))

Sszeyl: <font color="#660033">(( :V ))

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">Aight.

RAM:<font color="#990000">+2 luck.

RAM:<font color="#990000">Wait, nevermind.

Sszeyl: <font color="#660033">(( 19 damage. Fun. ))

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">Tom flinches faintly from the Shield backlash. But he's mostly fine.

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">Sszeyl is now at about 48%.

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">But.

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">Jump check!

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">Remember to take half damage, silly.

Sszeyl: <font color="#660033">(( 19 damage was half damage. ))

Sszeyl: <font color="#660033">(( Silly. ))

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">How is 19 half of 24

Sszeyl: <font color="#660033">(( It is 12+7. ))

Sszeyl: <font color="#660033">(( ..Wait, no. ))

Sszeyl: <font color="#660033">(( It should be 22 then. ))

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">I meant from Shield Other.

Sszeyl: <font color="#660033">(( Bite plus feedback. ))

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">.... The feedback is damage you dealt to IT.

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">Aww.

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">Anyways.

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">Jumping.

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&#171; &#160;1d20+18 = 14 + 18 = 32&#160; <font color="#660033">&#187; :&gt; BORN FREEEEEE

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">As free as the wind punches you square in the face you asshole~

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&#171; &#160;1d20+11 = 19 + 11 = 30&#160; <font color="#660033">&#187; &#171;  &#160;1d10+3 = 6 + 3 = 9&#160; <font color="#660033">&#187; Magical Drow Punch.

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">Doesn't Sszeyl also still have bonecrusher? :o

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">Nope.

Sszeyl: <font color="#660033">(( Sold it to get Belt of Giant's Strength. ))

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">Ah.

Flying Terror 2:<font color="#000000">The cackling grows to a fever pitch, even as the creature loses a tooth to the punch.

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">Le catch tooth.

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">Trophy. *_*

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">Done.

GM:<font color="#000000">Ow, it's hot!

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">Also I should probably take some fall damage.

GM:<font color="#000000">And covered in Tomi's blood.

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">Even better.

GM:<font color="#000000">Meanwhile, Railock, it's Masabel's turn. :3

* Masabel tumbles in around number 1 &#171; &#160;1d20+20 = 10 + 20 = 30&#160;  &#187; then uses obscuring shadow veil. Frost &#171; &#160;1d20+15 = 11 + 15 = 26&#160;  &#187; to hit, &#171;  &#160;1d6+1d6+5d6+3 = 3 + 2 + 19 + 3 = 27&#160;  &#187; and must make a will save DC 17 or have a 50% miss chance on melee attacks for a round.

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">You don't take fall damage from your own jumping capability. Also you would need to roll a 40 jump check to get that much vertical height. =w=;

Flying Terror 1:<font color="#000000">Is that a touch attack, or no?

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">Now quit trying to die. *gibbs slap*

Masabel:<font color="#000000">no, attack with scimitar

Flying Terror 2:<font color="#000000">This guy is on the ground, no Jump check needed.

Flying Terror 1:<font color="#000000">CLANG! The sword skids off the chainmail barding of the creature as it keeps cackling.

Thomas Lazarus has received initiative.Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">Tom gathers his remaining strength, empties his thoughts, and tries to stagger ahead. Fortunately, the fiend overhead and beyond don't get AoO's from his approach. Unless they have those combat reflexes? D: Flying Terror 1:<font color="#000000">Nope! Go ahead, Tom!

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">Tom grips the air with his free hand and murmurs a string of words, seemingly in tongues. The volume of blue light that begins gathering there is incredible -- a flare that momentarily illuminates the entire hall with azure energy. Tom presses the holy flare into his wrecked sister's back. Motherfuckin' Heal. She undergoes an almost transformative recovery, regains 120hp, and immediately sloughs off her strength damage.

Edaric:<font color="#000000">&quot;... Ho-ly.&quot; o.o

* Tomiko Lazarus corrects her posture, twitching, snarling, and rolling her left shoulder.

* Viceth peeks around the corner. &quot;Exactly.&quot;

Aelian:<font color="#9933FF">&quot;Wow..&quot; Aelian says breathlessly..

Tomiko Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Round two, you little faggots.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">Done!

Firaira has received initiative.Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">Sszeyl narrows his eyes at the posittive energy, turning red at the edges.

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">But quickly changes to look for a new angel of attack.

Liatai:<font color="#000000">A new angel?

Glitch:<font color="#000000">Serrierr has arrived?! :U

Tomiko Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">Sszeyl and Tomi get Flank boni!

Tomiko Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">Gamal, too!

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">And Altonor and Kep!

Teeny Rin:<font color="#FF0000">Not Masabel, though. I think.

Liatai:<font color="#000000">BRB.

Firaira:<font color="#9933FF">The elven archer gets back to her feet, inhaling stiffly as she draws her bow.

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">Angle, nerdlingers. &gt;:U

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">But perhaps Angel.

Firaira:<font color="#9933FF">She sends a multitude of arrows at the first fiend, silvered and all! &#171; &#160;1d20+14 = 18 + 14 = 32&#160; <font color="#9933FF">&#187; for &#171;  &#160;1d8+1 = 3 + 1 = 4&#160; <font color="#9933FF">&#187;, &#171;  &#160;1d20+14 = 20 + 14 = 34&#160; <font color="#9933FF">&#187; for &#171;  &#160;1d8+1 = 4 + 1 = 5&#160; <font color="#9933FF">&#187; damage and &#171;  &#160;1d20+9 = 20 + 9 = 29&#160; <font color="#9933FF">&#187; for &#171;  &#160;1d8+1 = 4 + 1 = 5&#160; <font color="#9933FF">&#187; damage!

VAE:<font color="#000000">No

VAE:<font color="#000000">Not Angel

* VAE hates that fuck

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">If I could get this thing giving me a hernia every time I look at positive energy.

* Dr. Hatari loves Meanyism insults. :B

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">Btw, Tom, I need your help curing this hernia sometimes.

Firaira:<font color="#9933FF">&#171; &#160;1d20+14 = 19 + 14 = 33&#160; <font color="#9933FF">&#187; crit confirm and forgot the buffs again. -.-. &#171; &#160;1d20+9 = 4 + 9 = 13&#160; <font color="#9933FF">&#187; for the OTHER crit confirm

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">Vae?

VAE:<font color="#000000">?

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">You are a Mormon. &gt;:|

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">Did I say that right?

VAE:<font color="#000000">Why

* VAE flings magnets at owl

Firaira:<font color="#9933FF">&#171; &#160;1d8+1 = 7 + 1 = 8&#160; <font color="#9933FF">&#187; damage, seeing how that crit is sure to confirm.

Teeny Rin: <font color="#FF0000">They're times three

Firaira:<font color="#9933FF">Oh right. &#171; &#160;1d8+1 = 3 + 1 = 4&#160; <font color="#9933FF">&#187;

Teeny Rin:<font color="#FF0000">There. :B

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&amp;v=L0xE47YfrQA#t=66s

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Is Firaira's bow magic?

Firaira:<font color="#9933FF">Yup!

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&amp;v=dc39XlwahUY#t=610s

VAE:<font color="#000000">ahhahaha

Firaira:<font color="#9933FF">That for Firaira? XP

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">I'm rather digging it for the whole struggle. :3

Flying Terror 1:<font color="#000000">One hit, two hits, three hits!

Firaira:<font color="#9933FF">Well it's oddly fitting for her.. maybe more than you know. XP

VAE:<font color="#000000">Count von Count?

Teeny Rin:<font color="#FF0000">Badass guitar choruses for all!

Flying Terror 1:<font color="#000000">&#171; &#160;4+5+5+8+4 = 4 + 5 + 5 + 8 + 4 = 26&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187; Which terror?

Firaira:<font color="#9933FF">#1!

* VAE downloading second epic music mix now

Draugrim:<font color="#9933FF">In the meantime, the big wolf runs forward, and guards a downed gnome, growling

* Altonor rounds on the hellhound as it snaps downward -- Time for math. &gt;:d

Teeny Rin:<i><font color="#FF0000">Epic math.

</i>VAE:<font color="#000000">No

Meany:<font color="#660033">&quot;Mr. President, we have encountered a problem that our military is unable to solve.&quot;

Meany:<font color="#660033">&quot;It has come to this. Contact...MY LAWYERS.&quot;

VAE:<font color="#000000">Epic math is where partial differential equations get involved

VAE:<font color="#000000">and index notation

Altonor:<font color="#000000">&#171; &#160;1d20+17+2+3-2+2 = 20 + 17 + 2 + 3 - 2 + 2 = 42&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187; &#171;  &#160;1d6+6+1d6 = 5 + 6 + 5 = 16&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187; nonlethal damage --

Teeny Rin:<font color="#FF0000">EPIC MATH'D.

Meany:<font color="#660033">Also Altonor is able to grasp physics.

Meany:<font color="#660033">He just choses not to.

Altonor:<font color="#000000">CRIT &#171; &#160;1d20+17+2+3 = 4 + 17 + 2 + 3 = 26&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187;

Altonor:<font color="#000000">BAH. No crit. But something better. Altonor gives a war cry, and suddenly, you feel much more focused when it comes time to aim at #1. Everyone gains +4 on attack rolls to hit 1 for one round!

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">Now, this is important.

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">Is it an untyped bonus or morale?

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">--This is probably leadint the attack. I

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">ll check.

Altonor:<font color="#000000">Lemme check. The one book I don't have out -- yes. It's Leading the Attack.

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">It is a morale bonus. So only +1 above and beyond what we already had. But still!

Altonor:<font color="#000000">Yeah, not used to working with bards, sorry, human. |D

RAM:<font color="#990000">Freaking non-stacking bonus shenanigans. &gt;:T

Edaric:<font color="#000000">S'allright... |D;

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">We have +6 hit, just appreciate it. XP

Gnogglebolt has received initiative.Liatai:<font color="#000000">Still pinned.

Miron has received initiative.Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot; Aagh...ghaaa..&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">The gnome is still limp as a fish.

GM:<font color="#000000">Miron!

GM:<font color="#000000">Shankfang and Tomi are on deck.

Meany:<font color="#660033">Shouldn't we be free on the Terror's turn?

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">Yeah, it'll wear off soon.

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Miron can go when VAE comes back, I suppose.

Shankfang the Deffrider has received initiative.GM:<font color="#000000">Ram! Shankfang's turn!

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">Shankfang stands still for a moment, head down, his body shivering.

VAE:<font color="#000000">Isn't Miron still -11 Str?

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">For now, yes.

Shankfang the Deffrider: <font color="#990000">&quot;No...impossible...&quot;

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">But as long as you have 1, you can act.

VAE:<font color="#000000">Hence, not much he can do with a zero

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">True.

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">Carry on. ^^;

VAE:<font color="#000000">He got. . . -1 in fact

Shankfang the Deffrider: <font color="#990000">&quot;You...you...&quot;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">His head snaps up, and his face is contorted into a visage of sheer rage.

Miron:<font color="#000000">The inquisitor is still droning platitudes to Hextor, while motionless.

Shankfang the Deffrider:<b><font color="#990000">&quot;YOU FUCKINK ASSHOLE!&quot;

</b>VAE:<font color="#000000">Shankfang is Heavy

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">First shot, Shankfang throws his arm forward violently, almost like he's trying to make the shot fire harder than is already does! &#171; &#160;1d20+19-4+4+2+1+2 = 13 + 19 - 4 + 4 + 2 + 1 + 2 = 37&#160; <font color="#990000">&#187; for &#171;  &#160;4d6+2+3+2 = 10 + 2 + 3 + 2 = 17&#160; <font color="#990000">&#187; damage! &quot;SHE...&quot;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">At number 1, Hasted, force damage.

Flying Terror 1:<font color="#000000">BLAM! That's a hit!

VAE:<font color="#000000">isn't 19 a crit?

VAE:<font color="#000000">or is it only at 20

VAE:<font color="#000000">(the gun)

Glitch:<font color="#000000">(only on 20s)

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">Second shot, Shankfang positively -slams- the powder and bullet down the barrel of Rose, again gesticulating violently as he fires! &#171; &#160;1d20+19-4+4+1+4+2 = 4 + 19 - 4 + 4 + 1 + 4 + 2 = 30&#160; <font color="#990000">&#187; for &#171;  &#160;4d6+2+4+3 = 14 + 2 + 4 + 3 = 23&#160; <font color="#990000">&#187; damage! &quot;VOULD NEFER...&quot;

Flying Terror 1:<font color="#000000">Look out below!

Flying Terror 1:<font color="#000000">CRASH!

Flying Terror 2:<font color="#000000">... yet the other one's STILL CACKLING.

Flying Terror 2:<font color="#000000">If anything, it's laughing even harder at its colleague's fall.

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">Final shot, Shankfang tosses Rose up in the air, throwing the bullet down the barrel before catching and firing at the downed beast! (Coup De Grace?) &#171; &#160;1d20+19-4+5+4+2+1+1 = 13 + 19 - 4 + 5 + 4 + 2 + 1 + 1 = 41&#160; <font color="#990000">&#187; for &#171;  &#160;4d6+2+5+3 = 15 + 2 + 5 + 3 = 25&#160; <font color="#990000">&#187; damage! &quot;DO DAT!&quot;

Meany:<font color="#660033">We later find out.

VAE:<font color="#000000">hahah

Meany:<font color="#660033">That these two are actually the teenage sons of a greater devil.

Meany:<font color="#660033">And they are -totally wasted-.

VAE:<font color="#000000">Worst thing Shankfang can think of is thatshe'd be cheating on him

VAE:<font color="#000000">That's. . .nomworthy all by itself

VAE:<font color="#000000">Owl, they likely are. Like Miron was saying, prob'ly had a pit fiend in their ancestry

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">In case you haven't noticed, he's very devoted to her. :B

VAE:<font color="#000000">yes. Which is why it's hillarious and awesome

Flying Terror 1:<font color="#000000">CRACK! Shankfang's bullet enters the creature's skull as it falls... sending out an explosion of ash, soot, and foul black smoke. When the creature hits the ground, it crumbles, leaving behind only its red-hot chainmail.

Shankfang the Deffrider: <b><font color="#990000">&quot;FUCK HYU!&quot;

</b> Tomiko Lazarus has received initiative.* Shankfang the Deffrider pants heavily, glaring holes where the beast used to be.

Tomiko Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">Tomi strikes her right hand into her left palm -- and there's enough force to displace some nearby dust from the concussion. &quot;Pretty funny, huh..?&quot; She lifts off the ground with the barest flick of one foot. A monstrous uppercut to collide with its jaw -- a straight blurred into its face -- a headslam right into its eyes -- and its neck gets grabbed and used as leverage as she slams a knee into its throat!! BOOM, THUD, CRACK -- like a fucking missile salvo is hitting the area! Full Attack (+Haste, +Bard, +Recite, +Flank): Punch 1: &#171; &#160;1d20+21+7 = 11 + 21 + 7 = 39&#160; <font color="#FF0000">&#187; &#171;  &#160;3d6+8+1d6+3 = 8 + 8 + 5 + 3 = 24&#160; <font color="#FF0000">&#187; Punch 2:&#171;  &#160;1d20+16+7 = 18 + 16 + 7 = 41&#160; <font color="#FF0000">&#187; &#171;  &#160;3d6+8+1d6+3 = 8 + 8 + 4 + 3 = 23&#160; <font color="#FF0000">&#187; Haste Strike: &#171;  &#160;1d20+21+7 = 5 + 21 + 7 = 33&#160; <font color="#FF0000">&#187; &#171;  &#160;3d6+8+1d6+3 = 11 + 8 + 1 + 3 = 23&#160; <font color="#FF0000">&#187; Snap Kick: &#171;  &#160;1d20+17+7 = 7 + 17 + 7 = 31&#160; <font color="#FF0000">&#187; &#171;  &#160;3d6+3+1d6+3 = 10 + 3 + 6 + 3 = 22&#160; <font color="#FF0000">&#187;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">On another note, I think this is the highest Shankfang's combo multiplier has been so far! :B

Glitch:<font color="#000000">....I was gonna make a funny about another character, but it may not be taken properly as a jest. &gt;.&gt; oh well.

Ghostwish:<font color="#9933FF">a straight blurred into its face? She's playing cards with it?

Flying Terror 2:<font color="#000000">Welp.

* Ghostwish ducks.

Tomiko Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">A straight punch. Although I do like cards. =w=c

Flying Terror 2:<font color="#000000">There needs to be another word in the dictionary for just how pulverized this hellhound became.

Ghostwish:<font color="#9933FF">There already is.

Ghostwish:<font color="#9933FF">'Crabtank'.

* Ghostwish runs.

VAE:<font color="#000000">Pulfuckverized

* Tomiko Lazarus lands after she concludes that combo.

Flying Terror 2:<font color="#000000">It's just ben crabtanked. :B

Glitch:<font color="#000000">Tomiko; Approaching Goku-levels of PUNCH. :B

Ghostwish:<font color="#9933FF">Then flying terror 2 and crabtank do the &quot;I know that feel bro&quot; meme.

GM:<font color="#000000">Combat over!

GM:<font color="#000000">Let's cut off here for the night.

* Thomas Lazarus blinks twice. &quot;..Nice..&quot; He smirks weakly and looks back. &quot;Okay.. who's hurt??&quot;

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">Fair 'nuff.

GM:<font color="#000000">Nom time!

Tathi:<font color="#9933FF">&quot;Everyone.&quot; Tathi rasps, raising her head with a tired smirk. &quot;You have to ask/&quot;

Glitch:<font color="#000000">Shankfang - Rage at the voices

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Sorry..!&quot; ^^;

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">Let's see, let's see.

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">Shankfang clenches his eyes shut, shaking his head to clear out the remnants of the voices.

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">Definitely Shankfang for his nice reaction moment. Also Miron. Also Ed.

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Ugh...&quot;

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">I loved those murmurs.

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">Sszeyl plays with the tooth.

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">And Swallowtail although I have no idea what she said.

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;Well.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;That happened.&quot;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;K-kan ve not fight dose tinks again, please?&quot;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Dose voices...&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;We still ain't done, friend. Gather your strength, lick your wounds. There may be even worse ahead. We're still following.. them..&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot; laws of Hextor.... ... SIX DICKS&quot; *thud* The inquisitor has apparently come to his senses, which had the byproduct of not being able to keep in the odd kneeling position.

Gamal-Junayd:<font color="#000000">&quot;Yes...horrible things...unless we ahve some way to keep the voices out...Hmm...Can anyone create a field of silence? If thomas senses evil as strong as them again, perhaps we can defend agaisnt it within a field of silence?&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Tiamat's three arses.. what the fuck happened? I... &quot;

Liatai:<font color="#000000">You can roll Spellcraft if you like.

Miron:<font color="#000000">He stands up with a bit of effort.

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">Sszeyl...just shrugs.

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;I'm sorry. I can't really offer sympathies.&quot;

Teeny Rin:<font color="#FF0000">Good thing we weren't split up that time. |D

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">Indeed.

RAM:<font color="#990000">So, noms and done?

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;GUAH.&quot; Gnogglebolt snaps out of it and regains use of his muscles.

RAM:<font color="#990000">I shoulda gone to bed two hours ago.

RAM:<font color="#990000">Waking up is gonna suuuuuuck.

* Tomiko Lazarus simply sniffs, and claps her brother on the shoulder.

Tomiko Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Thanks.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;The thing .. it shouted with.. unholy fuck of Malcanthet, my legs hurt.&quot;

GM:<font color="#000000">Yeah, we're just compiling noms.

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">Welcome to me during Greedverse. :B

VAE:<font color="#000000">Nomming Shenkfang

RAM:<font color="#990000">I now know your pain, Hatari. :B

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">Just make sure to go get some deep sleep, if it can't be long.

VAE:<font color="#000000">&quot;Talfeera sleeping with someone else? WORSE THAN END OF THE WORLD&quot;

RAM:<font color="#990000">Miron for &quot;Hextor DIIIIICKS!&quot;

RAM:<font color="#990000">How do I make it deep sleep? :B

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">Miron for stress = mouthful of fuckwords *dabs brow*

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">Don't get interrupted by bullshit I guess. |D

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;...Was it really that bad for you guys?&quot;

VAE:<font color="#000000">yeah

VAE:<font color="#000000">and if you can't sleep

Ghostwish:<font color="#9933FF">Meany. http://cheezburger.com/6997369344

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Get at least four hours, I believe. That's long enough for at least one REM cycle.

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;Raiders, what about you?&quot;

VAE:<font color="#000000">even if you close your eyes and lie there it helps

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Kinda yeah..&quot;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Ja, it vas dat bad.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;. . . Bad doesn't come close. Fuck.&quot;

Masabel:<font color="#000000">&quot;I don't want to talk about it.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">=3=;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;..I don't like to think of what it would've been like if I hadn't blessed myself first..&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">His blue flames snuff out.

Altonor:<font color="#000000">&quot;Think it hit Kep worse than it did me. You okay, fella?&quot;

Kep'salion:<font color="#000000">Snort.

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">Hm, what else~

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Tom, remember the erinyes ordering us to stand down?&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;Alright, I'll thank Yazagh for something next time I see him, at least.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;That.. that was the loudest. But there was more.. there was everything.&quot;

* Gamal-Junayd looks at the bearded ones. does it look like hte hell hounds ate em or somethign else?

RAM:<font color="#990000">Tom for &quot;HOLY!&quot;

Meany:<font color="#660033">It isn't a real Holy though.

RAM:<font color="#990000">Close enough. :B

Meany:<font color="#660033">Becaue no assassin stabbed him during the casting.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">D|

Meany:<font color="#660033">Which would have been -glorious-.

GM:<font color="#000000">Something else. Something with a lot of arcane firepower, or at least a lot of stabby.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">But I don't want the Aerith theme D|

RAM:<font color="#990000">x3

RAM:<font color="#990000">Hmm...

Gamal-Junayd:<font color="#000000">&quot;Perhaps the assassins are attacking the bearded ones..but then...what if they let these big ones out instead? Rival factions of devils?&quot;

RAM:<font color="#990000">Too tired to think of more.

Meany:<font color="#660033">Vonian for Fungus Food.

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">Oh yeah. XP

Meany:<font color="#660033">Tomiko for &quot;Let's Split Up, Gang!&quot;

Meany:<font color="#660033">Tom is unfortunately, the Scooby.

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">Also I think I disc'd before Tom responded to the offered fungus

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">I forget what even happened..

Meany:<font color="#660033">You did.

Meany:<font color="#660033">Nothing.

Meany:<font color="#660033">We assumed he passed.

Meany:<font color="#660033">On.

Meany:<font color="#660033">And is now a ghost.

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">X3

RAM:<font color="#990000">The Holy Ghost. :B

RAM:<font color="#990000">Tom the Holy Ghost. x3

GM:<font color="#000000">Shankfang - 100 XP - SHE -- WOULD NEVER -- DO THAT! 100 XP - Fungus Food. Vonain - 100 XP - &quot;lawls nope&quot; *stands off behind cover multiple times* 100 XP - Fungus Food. Miron - 100 XP - I must obey the law of Hextor... 100 XP - High Blood Pressure. 100 XP - Professional groping. 100 XP - Professional cursing. Edaric - 100 XP - They said we were still friends... You liars! 100 XP - I don't think most men have THOSE. Swallowtail - 100 XP - I have not been forgotten! 100 XP - Miron gives so many fucks. Gnogglebolt - 100 XP - Clock! Tom - 100 XP - Let's kill the devils, THEN each other. 100 XP - Holy~ Gamal - 100 XP - Consolation prize... Next area loading. Sszeyl - 100 XP - Tastes of home. Om nom mushroom.

GM:<font color="#000000">Any others? :3

Meany:<font color="#660033">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=914bAwqD68Y

Meany:<font color="#660033">Sszeyl would be the spy in this instance.

Meany:<font color="#660033">Don't ask him for help while critically wounded.

Meany:<font color="#660033">Ever.

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;I.. have no fucking idea. I need to clear my head up For fuck's sake, I *am* an inquisitor. Nobody ever will take that from me. &quot; ''Not the devils, not Lolth herself.. not Gradia. She's a Macer too.. I haven't killed her.. she isn't Cal'tel ... what the fuck you're .. don't think about that bullshit, it might have been as bad as those nightmares but it isn't real '' The inquisitor smacks his forehead out.

Vonain (Goldeneye):<font color="#000000">&#171; &#160;50700+100+100 = 50700 + 100 + 100 = 50900&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&#171; &#160;53900+100 = 53900 + 100 = 54000&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187;

Miron:<font color="#000000">51800 now

Glitch:<font color="#000000">any battle EXP?

RAM:<font color="#990000">52800 for Shankfang!

VAE:<font color="#000000">Heh

VAE:<font color="#000000">Professional groping

VAE:<font color="#000000">That one was fun

GM:<font color="#000000">No battle XP today, I'll get that to you at the end.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">Miron gets a hand on his shoulder. &quot;It was Hell's power.&quot;

GM:<font color="#000000">Of the dungeon, not this session.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;It wasn't real. It's over.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;I ..I know, brother. It's just...&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;I guess if you're alive for as long as me... these things it can pull at you.. they accumulate.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;We've gotta stay strong. It isn't over yet. Keeping that kind of thing from happening again, to anyone. It's why we're doing this.&quot;

Glitch:<font color="#000000">Oh, I do have a question, just -who- was Edaric muttering about again? :.

Glitch:<font color="#000000">Or is that sekrit?

Teeny Rin:<font color="#FF0000">DARE YE ASK IN-CHARACTER AND PROVOKE YON LUTE THWACK?

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Couldn't tell you, those were IC glimpses. Maybe after the game.

Liatai:<font color="#000000">... Mostly Aelian and Tom, though. :B

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;Everyone good to go?&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">*nods*. &quot;You are right. We have to press on, clear this fucking mess, and bring those responsible to justice.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">He said while bleeding heavily.

RAM:<font color="#990000">So, off to bed now! Good game, peeps!

Sszeyl: <font color="#660033">(( Ta. ))

VAE:<font color="#000000">see ya

GM:<font color="#000000">Saving campaign...

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;It is our duty, no matter what.&quot;

RAM:<font color="#990000">Good night and sleep well everyone!

Ghostwish:<font color="#9933FF">SAVING

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Not for a few minutes, mister.&quot; Back at Sszeyl.

VAE:<font color="#000000">Night RAM

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">AND THE HEALING FOR AN HOUR BEGINS.

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;Hmm.&quot;

<i><font color="#0000ff">RAM is disconnected.

</i>Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">Sszeyl keeps messing with his tooth.

Tomiko Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Nice tooth.&quot; She looks at the fallen chain barding of the one she obliterated.

Tomiko Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;..Mine went to Hell.&quot; =3=

Glitch:<font color="#000000">Well, with the campaign save, healing will have to be done start of next session. :B

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;I'll trade ya this one, then?&quot;

Tomiko Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;That would've been a nice skull, too.&quot;

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Hee.

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Even though Tomi's XP isn't being tracked, consider that a DM nom. &quot;Nice tooth. Mine went to Hell. =3=&quot; *brick'd*

Tomiko Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Remind me to pull their teeth out before they die next time.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;Alrighty.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;Wait.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;What about removing things that kill them right after?&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;Like spine removal?&quot;

Tomiko Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Tried it.&quot; She shrugs with upturned hands.

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;Drats.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;Hmm.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;Perhaps I'll grab me a hyoid.&quot;

Glitch:<font color="#000000">I thought we were winding down? Are we still going, or ending?

Glitch:<font color="#000000">I've stepped out of my roleplaying head, do I need to get back into it? :B

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">Just banter. :B

VAE:<font color="#000000">we are

VAE:<font color="#000000">this is just banter, Hatari got it

Liatai:<font color="#000000">We're winding down, but folks are bantering, is cool. x3

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">Actually I'm done because bio

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">Ta

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Mmkay. Ghost, server can go down whenever. :3

VAE:<font color="#000000">and .. here it's 5AM

VAE:<font color="#000000">so, yeah

Ghostwish:<font color="#9933FF">Okay!

<i><font color="#0000ff">Ghostwish is disconnected.

</i><i> You have disconnected.

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