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Savage Worlds Ruleset for Fantasy Grounds II
(c) 2009 Pinnacle Entertainment Group.
Quorteth (Uriel Iscariot): 0.0
TADM: Hey Q, you are being bad-mouthed in Vent.
Quorteth (Uriel Iscariot): Meh, used to it.
TADM: The deaths of NPCs are being blamed on your absence.
Kazemi (Zach Dallas): BETRAYER
TADM: Okay, so Q, you get to sit back and read what is happening until the party meets up with Uriel. As there is no way for Uriel to get where the party is.
Feneril (Ezekial Ikwiano): so when we all die
Feneril (Ezekial Ikwiano): you will consider yourself lucky
Quorteth (Uriel Iscariot): Okay.
Xiu Li picks up Eyes Like Fire's corpse and flings it over one shoulder.
Born in a Bowl floats over to the group.
Born in a Bowl: Papa Rattlesnake is dead, but his master is fast approaching.
Born in a Bowl: This place is not safe for mortal kind.
Short Round: Language: Engrish [1d4 = 3]
Short Round: We leave soon. Yes?
Born in a Bowl: I thank you for my rescue, but I suspect that alone did not bring you here.
Born in a Bowl waits patiently for the party's explanation.
Zach Dallas: ow ow ow heal me
Zach Dallas: ow
Zach Dallas: please? Gospel-sharp?
Born in a Bowl raises an eyebrow curiously.
Quorteth (Uriel Iscariot):
Kazemi (Zach Dallas): ignore those last few
Quorteth (Uriel Iscariot): Upon hearing that, Uriel's interpretation of chrisitanity takes a very 'sacrifical lamb' bend....
Zach Dallas: Actually, we really did come here to rescue you
Ezekial Ikwiano: I will explain
Ezekial Ikwiano: No, there is too much
Ezekial Ikwiano: I will sum up
Zach Dallas looks skeptical
TADM: Score!
Ezekial Ikwiano has been awarded a benny
TADM: Yes, that is benny worthy. You will need them.
TADM:
TADM: Short Round, it's up to you!
Zach Dallas: Basically, we need some help deciphering what Sees Far Ahead...uh, saw
Short Round: Um, no speak English.
Short Round: Besides, I just along for ride. This their show.
Zach Dallas: We're looking to stop Grimme, if possible
Born in a Bowl: Ah. I see.
Born in a Bowl: Grimme can be stopped. I do not know the way. Sees Far Ahead does.
Born in a Bowl: His spirit is trapped in his skull, and he is unable to enter the Hunting Grounds. You must find his skull and return it to the Necessity Alliance.
Zach Dallas: Do you know where his skull happens to be?
Born in a Bowl: Yes.
Zach Dallas: Also, what happens if it breaks?
Born in a Bowl: If it breaks, you will have to journey into the Hunting Grounds to ask him your questions.
Born in a Bowl: His skull is in a place that is a shadow of what will be, should the Reckoners win.
Ezekial Ikwiano: Maybe we should be leaving now
Born in a Bowl: Yes.
Zach Dallas: Let's get moving
Zach Dallas: I think Pete's still alive
Born in a Bowl: I will send you as near to that place as I can, from there you must walk.
Born in a Bowl points at Zeke.
Born in a Bowl: There is one who wears Confederate Grey. He guards the gates of Hell.
Born in a Bowl: Cross him, and you shall die.
Born in a Bowl: Remember those words.
Kazemi (Zach Dallas): LE GASP!
There is a blinding flash of light.
Feneril (Ezekial Ikwiano): If he guards the gates of hell, wouldn't dieing be the same as him letting us by?
TADM: She is speaking somewhat metaphorically.
Ezekial Ikwiano: Oh no, I'm blind!
Zach Dallas: I'm blind in one eye!
Short Round: I see dumb people
When the spots clear from your vision, you find that it is early morning. You are on a high cliff overlooking a narrow valley. The other side of the valley is not as high, and a large stone wall has been built from one edge of the valley to the other. Guard towers manned with Red Cloaked Avenging Angels and fitted with gatling guns and cannons point outward from the valley interior. Looking into the valley, you see piles of human skulls at what looks like randomly placed intervals. There is one gated entrance through the wall, to the west side of the valley. A nice chapel sits just inside the wall, past the gate, as are seven very impressive looking mausoleums.
TADM: Fear level here is 6. And you are quite convinced that the voice of every person you know who is dead is whispering in your ears.
TADM: Hunger gnaws at you in a way that makes your comrades look downright tasty.
Kazemi (Zach Dallas): that's a lot of voices
Ezekial Ikwiano eats a cigar.
TADM: Yes, for this group that is quite the cacophony.
Feneril (Ezekial Ikwiano): Particularly for Zeke.
TADM: The entire group is here, Pete, Uriel, Zach, Zeke, Short Round, and Xiu Li.
Feneril (Ezekial Ikwiano): A lot of them are probably mad that I killed them too
Uriel Iscariot: What.....in the Devil's Backyard is this!?!
Zach Dallas: The Devil's Backyard, I think
Uriel Iscariot 0.0
Ezekial Ikwiano: Smells like Alabama
Stinky Pete: Xiu Li, all I have to say is...there can be only one!! (NPC alive still on good terms with us, that is)
Xiu Li shudders.
Zach Dallas slaps the side of his head
Xiu Li: We should find Sees Far Ahead and be out of here and quickly as possible.
Zach Dallas: I agree. I'm getting some sort of short circuit here
Xiu Li: Hmm...I don't suppose someone has a good way to identify one skull in a valley filled with about 10000 of them?
Stinky Pete: Short Round, stop running around Zach for a second!
Uriel Iscariot: Smarts [1d6 = 5]
Ezekial Ikwiano: I was sort of expecting to find one skull
Zach Dallas: Not particularly. Unless we can ask these voices
Uriel Iscariot: Dental Records!
Uriel Iscariot: Wait.....
Uriel Iscariot: Okay, so maybe that was a boneheaded thing to say
Zach Dallas: I hate you
Zach Dallas: Well, the skull's got a rather important guest in it, so I doubt it'll be lying around
Kazemi (Zach Dallas): are any of the skulls near us?
TADM: There are no skulls near you.
Feneril (Ezekial Ikwiano): Oh no, where'd my skull go!
Feneril (Ezekial Ikwiano): What will keep my brain safe!
Kazemi (Zach Dallas): your what?
Stinky Pete: Maybe it'll find us. It'll probably head for Zach, since he's an expert at rolling bones
Ezekial Ikwiano: Notice [Trait roll was a natural 1] [1d6 = 2]
GM: Notice checks.
Stinky Pete: Notice {+2 Alertness(S)} [1d6+2 = 11]
Uriel Iscariot: Notice [1d6 = 4]
Ezekial Ikwiano: Smarts [1d6 = 17]
Zach Dallas: Notice {-1 One Eye} [1d6-1 = 2]
Short Round: Notice {+2 Alertness} [1d4+2 = 12]
Zeke and Zach do not notice anything useful.
Uriel Iscariot: Hrm....ya think we could just sprinkle holy water on all these poor souls until we find the mostest, evilist one?
Uriel Iscariot: But...That's libel to get us caught....
Zach Dallas: Also, how much holy water do you have?
GM: Uriel notices that the seven mausoleum/sarcophagi at the front are all marked with defaced Christian symbols.
Uriel Iscariot: As much as we need!
Kazemi (Zach Dallas): lol
Uriel Iscariot: ....HERESY!
Zach Dallas laughs
Zach Dallas: That's a pretty important looking place over there
Kazemi (Zach Dallas): how many guards are there?
Nick (Short Round): You know why it's called Grieving chapel? If an infidel makes it there without being shot, the guards weep. In an "OMG we're dying! It hurts!! Don't torture us for failing!" kinda way
Uriel Iscariot: These guys are bonefied crazies!
Uriel Iscariot: How dare they dessecrate the divine!
Short Round: We should go to the sarcophagi. Maybe we can dig up some clues
Short Round notices that there is a one-arm man wearing a Confederate jacket and smoking a pipe sitting outside the chapel. For some reason, Short Round's attention is drawn to the man. Short Round also counts 20 guards, each cannon tower has a squad of five.
Kazemi (Zach Dallas): A Confederate jackage, eh?
Zach Dallas: Common Knowledge [1d12 = 9]
Short Round: Language: Engrish [Trait roll was a natural 1] [1d6 = 4]
Zach Dallas: I'd love to do that, but the cripple makes me feel nervous
Short Round: You know Confederates wore gray, right? Like the grey man that Born in Bowl spoke of
Zach Dallas: Quite
Uriel Iscariot: Well, We could just make a run for the Sarcophagi.
Uriel Iscariot: But that's also not the best idea.
Zach Dallas: I don't sense any Jokers
Nick (Short Round): Don't you mean shamble? Especially if we're lost and looking for our mummy
Zach Dallas: not even in Pete anymore
Ezekial Ikwiano: I ain't afraid of no confederates
Quorteth (Uriel Iscariot): Okay that one was good nick
Ezekial Ikwiano: Specially crippled ones
GM: Common Knowledge Checks.
Uriel Iscariot: Smarts [1d6 = 3]
Ezekial Ikwiano: Common Knowledge [1d6 = 4]
Short Round: Smarts [1d6 = 5]
Stinky Pete: Smarts [Trait roll was a natural 1] [1d6 = 4]
Zach Dallas: Common Knowledge [1d6 = 11]
Zach happens to remember, and mentions out loud that Jehosaphat Valley is where the "unclaimed" dead of Lost Angels are brought for cremation, as Reverend Grimme does not want to hold funerals in the city for non-believers. Zach also remembers that this means the group is probably about a half day walk north of Lost Angels.
Uriel Iscariot: Well that mean's all these are god-fearing good folk!
Ezekial Ikwiano: Yeah, the mountains of skulls are a dead giveaway that they are nice folk
Uriel Iscariot: There's nothing humerous about skulls.
A scrawny looking rabbit comes out of a burrow nearby, it stops to look at the group while in the shade of a tumbleweed. The tumbleweed shudders, swings forward, impales the rabbit, and drains all the blood out of the creature in less than six seconds.
Xiu Li: I vote we move on...
Stinky Pete: Me too
Zach Dallas: So, question: Do we try to parlay with the Confederate or avoid him?
Uriel Iscariot: To where?
Zach Dallas: I'm pretty sure our target is right down there
Ezekial Ikwiano: I say we go in through the front gate
Ezekial Ikwiano: let Uriel do the talkin
Uriel Iscariot: Uh.....
Zach Dallas: no
Zach Dallas: that's a bad idea
Zach Dallas: bad bad bad idea
Ezekial Ikwiano: If they christians, they can't hurt a preacher
Stinky Pete: Is the idea bad to the bone?
Uriel Iscariot: we all know that priest perfer to use the back door.
Zach Dallas: but they're fake-christians...
Uriel Iscariot: Hes from the south, hes a good old chrisitan!
Kazemi (Zach Dallas): I'm in favor of the parlay as well
Kazemi (Zach Dallas): brb
Uriel Iscariot: But Zach...how are we going to get down there and not get shot on sight?
Uriel Iscariot: 'An by the looks of it, we wouldn't even get a proper burial! Cremation is SINFUL!
Uriel Iscariot: How' the LORD supposed to make you whole a'gin when he comes on back now?
GM: Okay, so the group is heading over to the front entrance?
Nick (Stinky Pete): I could know. But I don't feel like looking into the Big Book O' Cheatin
Quorteth (Uriel Iscariot): Oh sure
Ezekial Ikwiano: Aint no use standin' round yackin, I say we get a move on
The group moves down the side of the valley and loops around to the front entrance.
Kazemi (Zach Dallas): are the guards looking inside or outside of the compound?
TADM: 1 square = 150 feet.
Ezekial Ikwiano (Alabama drawl): I'll talk to one-arm
The Guards are looking outside the compound, the cannon tower nearest to you has their cannon, gatling gun, and eyes trained on the group.
Ezekial Ikwiano walks towards the one-arm man while puffing on a cigar.
Kazemi (Zach Dallas): brb again
Father Ambrose stands up and heads over to the entrance.
Father Ambrose tips hat to Zeke.
Ezekial Ikwiano tips hat at Father Ambrose.
Father Ambrose: Hello stranger, what brings ya'all out this far?
Ezekial Ikwiano (Alabama drawl): Lookin' fer a skull
Ezekial Ikwiano (Alabama drawl): noticed y'all had a few
Feneril (Ezekial Ikwiano): btw, do you bluff with Persuade in this ruleset?
Nick (Stinky Pete): yes
Father Ambrose: What would you need a skull for?
Ezekial Ikwiano (Alabama drawl): I don't unnerstan any that hocus pocus, alls I know is, some heathen Injun got dead an' I gettin' paid to find his bones
Father Ambrose nods.
Father Ambrose: I see son. That's a bit peculiar of a request.
Father Ambrose shrugs.
Father Ambrose: But I don't see any need to stop your request.
Father Ambrose gestures the group into the graveyard.
Ezekial Ikwiano (Alabama drawl): Much obliged
Father Ambrose: Oh, and don't go near the mausoleums, son, the creatures in there are none too friendly.
Father Ambrose: We found that not all folk stay dead, and the worst keep comin' back.
Father Ambrose tips hat and sits back down in his rocking chair.
Ezekial Ikwiano (to Uriel): That guy says there's muslims in here somewhere
Uriel Iscariot: Guts {+5 Legendary} [Trait roll was a natural 1] [1d6+5 = 8]
TADM: You fail.
TADM: Fear Level is -6 static, and all the critters in here have an extra penalty on top of that.
Uriel Iscariot: WHAT? How much heresy can one.....Oh I'm sorry. I mean the Injuns.
Ezekial Ikwiano: Anyone have any ideas how to find the skull?
Quorteth (Uriel Iscariot): I'd say detect evil and look for the best candidate...but somehow that isn't on my spell list.
TADM: Technically, Sees Far Ahead would be Good, so would you be using "Detect Evil" to remove all the skulls that are definitely not the Indian Shaman you are looking for?
Kazemi (Zach Dallas): That might be a good plan. Depends on how many there are
Xiu Li: Smarts [1d6 = 4]
Uriel Iscariot: The only thing I can surmise is that it would be close to the bottom.
Xiu Li: Hmmm....
Xiu Li: I need to stop and powder my nose.
Uriel Iscariot: of a pile.
Uriel Iscariot: As the first thing any good ol' religion needs to do is purge the heretics.
Zach Dallas: Knowing our luck it's in a mausoleum
Ezekial Ikwiano: Last time you had cocaine it didn't end well Xiu Li
Xiu Li walks back outside, waves to Father Ambrose as she does.
Zach Dallas: Spellcasting [1d12 = 7]
Stinky Pete: Spirit [1d12 = 8]
Ezekial Ikwiano looks for a skull that looks indian.
Ezekial Ikwiano: Notice [1d4 = 10]
Zach Dallas: I strongly suspect that my power is being intentionally gimped
Uriel Iscariot: Kn Occult {+2 Honey Vial} [1d6+2 = 13]
Quorteth (Uriel Iscariot): How does I talk to skulls?
Nick (Stinky Pete): Not sure, snce they no longer have tongues to speak, or ears to listen
Ezekial Ikwiano picks up a skull and holds it to his ear.
Uriel Iscariot: That's strange Zach, I'd think this land would have all sorts of things for you to tap into.
Ezekial Ikwiano: Notice [1d6 = 4]
Zach Dallas: Persuasion [1d10 = 8]
GM: Well, Uriel might have noticed that the Injuns of Necessity Alliance had narrow set eyes. That might make it easier to find the one you are looking for.
Uriel Iscariot: Hrm...
Uriel Iscariot: Faith {+2 Conviction, +1 GOD IS WITH HIM} (Novice Power -2) [1d12+1 = 7]
GM: After a few minutes of looking, Zeke is quite convinced he can differentiate between white, black, asian, and Injun skulls.
Quorteth (Uriel Iscariot): I wish to speak Demonic.
Feneril (Ezekial Ikwiano): roughly how many Injun skulls do I see?
Feneril (Ezekial Ikwiano): I assume a lot...
Uriel Iscariot (Demonic): Where is the Skull of the Shaman! Who here knows where it lies!
Zach Dallas quietly shuffles a deck of cards
Stinky Pete starts walking toward the skull pile furthest from the 'church'
GM: A group of wispy black clouds rise from the ground and slither towards Uriel.
Ezekial Ikwiano moves away from Uriel.
Zach Dallas: Woah, there, don't let those touch you
Uriel Iscariot (Demonic): Tell me or I shall smite thee!
Zach Dallas: Those are powerful Jokers
Zach Dallas: Physical, even. Haven't seen that before
Manitou: Priest? And what would a Priest that speaks demonic be doing here?
Zach Dallas: Why the hell are you speaking demonic?
Manitou: Long has it been since a mortal spoke the demonic tongue.
Kazemi (Zach Dallas): you know what, I hope you have to roll on the Huckster Fail Chart
TADM: Okay - if you need an image of what this looks like, just remember the Wraiths from the first Brendan Fraser Mummy movie with the Pit of Souls.
Ezekial Ikwiano moves further away from Uriel.
Manitou: I shall be happy to assist you, for a price.
Uriel Iscariot: Have any weekly specials?
Feneril (Ezekial Ikwiano): $29.95! And if you act now, we'll throw in two more for no extra cost!
Zach Dallas: Not worth paying
There are six of them slowly circling Uriel. Anyone who looks back towards the entrance notices that all the cannons and gatlings are pointed at the group. The one-armed Confederate is nowhere to be seen.
Manitou swirls closer to Zach.
Zach Dallas: Bug off
Manitou: You have already paid, your soul belongs to us already.
Manitou swirls close to Short Round.
Zach Dallas: Yeah, but the funny thing is that can change
Manitou: We shall take this one, and give you the skull.
Ezekial Ikwiano moves further away from Uriel. Preferably towards some cover.
Uriel Iscariot clenches his cross in one hand.
Zach Dallas: Not
Zach Dallas: Worth
Zach Dallas: It
Short Round: Bad plan! Bad trade! Bad priest!!
Short Round: Language: Engrish [Trait roll was a natural 1] [1d6 = 4]
Ezekial Ikwiano (shouting): I'll be over here, behind this pile of skulls.
Kazemi (Zach Dallas): I suspect he will if he keeps this up
Uriel Iscariot: Faith {+2 Conviction, +1 GOD IS WITH HIM} (Novice Power -2) [1d12+1 = 10]
Uriel Iscariot: Agility [1d4 = 7]
GM: Uriel's hands start glowing and he grabs the mist.
Manitou: Interesting?
Uriel Iscariot: Demon! Show me the skull!
Manitou: Sure.
Zach Dallas: For free
Ezekial Ikwiano draws his guns and crouches behind a pile of skulls.
Manitou: Absolutely.
Zach Dallas: Not good enough
Ezekial Ikwiano (shouting to the gun tower): I'm not with him
Stinky Pete keeps heading toward the furthest skull pile
Uriel Iscariot: Okay, lead on. Show it to me.
Uriel Iscariot: Now.
Zach Dallas: NO
Zach Dallas smacks Uriel
Stinky Pete: Notice {+2 Alertness(S)} [1d10+2 = 10]
Kazemi (Zach Dallas): Evens I stick with uriel, odds I'm out of there
Zach Dallas: Gambling [1d6 = 3]
Zach Dallas: Short Round, run!
Zach Dallas: Uriel, STOP
Zach Dallas: Persuasion [1d10 = 6]
The ground erupts with a hail of bones and debris.
Uriel Iscariot: Smarts [Trait roll was a natural 1] [1d6 = 3]
GM: Short Round gets hit twice, Shaken + 1 Wound, then 2 Wounds.
GM: Zach gets hit twice, Shaken, then 1 Wound.
Zach Dallas is using a benny
Zach Dallas: Vigor [Trait roll was a natural 1] [1d6 = 4]
Short Round is using a benny
Short Round: Vigor [1d4 = 2]
Short Round is using a benny
Short Round: Vigor [1d4 = 2]
GM: Uriel gets hit five times. Shaken, then 1 wound four times.
Uriel Iscariot is using a benny
Uriel Iscariot: Vigor [1d6 = 3]
Uriel Iscariot is using a benny
Uriel Iscariot: Vigor [1d6 = 4]
Uriel Iscariot is using a benny
Uriel Iscariot: Vigor [1d6 = 5]
Uriel Iscariot is using a benny
Uriel Iscariot: Vigor [Trait roll was a natural 1] [1d6 = 5]
Short Round is using a benny
Short Round: Vigor [1d4 = 5]
Short Round is using a benny
Short Round: Vigor [1d6 = 5]
Greater Manitou #4: Oh dear, the Priest seems to have cut himself.
Greater Manitou #6: I concur.
Ezekial Ikwiano
Ezekial Ikwiano: on hold
Short Round (shaken)
Short Round: Spirit [1d6 = 8]
GM: Short Round can act normally this round.
Short Round: Me run like the wind away from crazy priest!
Short Round: Language: Engrish [1d6 = 3]
Short Round: Agility [1d8 = 9]
Zach Dallas
Zach Dallas charges forth to assit Uriel. He bridges his cards from one hand to the other and in a flourish of his duster they vanish
Uriel Iscariot (shaken)
Uriel Iscariot: Spirit (Battle Damage! -1) [1d12-1 = 10]
Quorteth (Uriel Iscariot): Protection!
GM: Uriel can act normally.
Uriel Iscariot: Faith {+2 Conviction, +1 GOD IS WITH HIM} (Novice Power -2) [1d12+1 = 10]
Uriel Iscariot: Manitou! Try you best!
Greater Manitou #5 backs up.
Ezekial Ikwiano: I'm coming off hold and acting now
Ezekial Ikwiano runs as fast as he can towards the sarcophagi.
Feneril (Ezekial Ikwiano): d6 right?
Ezekial Ikwiano: [1d6 = 1]
Greater Manitou #4: Hmm...
Greater Manitou #6: Indeed.
Greater Manitou #6: So...Priest...
Uriel Iscariot: Yes?
Uriel Iscariot: You think you can strike me down?
Uriel Iscariot: You honestly think your feeble hands can scratch my faith?
Greater Manitou #6: At this moment, no.
Greater Manitou #6: Your Faith is a shield...right now..
Greater Manitou #6: So we are at an impasse. For we are no match for your Faith, and you cannot protect everyone else.
Greater Manitou #6: Give us the delicious little Asian boy and you can have the skull.
Ezekial Ikwiano (shouting): Take him!
Greater Manitou #4: Ewww...seriously...you sound like a priest.
Zach Dallas: No thank you
Uriel Iscariot: I hear you are gamblers. Is this true?
Greater Manitou #4: I mean, really? A little boy?
Greater Manitou #6: His is the only untainted soul to choose from.
Greater Manitou #4: I suppose.
Zach Dallas: Pretty shitty selection, though
Greater Manitou #6: Oh...what was that?
Zach Dallas: Maybe it's not even worth your while
Zach Dallas: After all, there's a lot of bother for one soul
Zach Dallas: Persuasion [1d6 = 11]
Greater Manitou #6: Smarts [1d6 = 8]
Zach Dallas: I seem to remember what happened last time you wanted a soul, right Tweedle? Twaddle?
Tweedle: Yes, but this is their show, we are just here to feed on the fear.
Twaddle: Yes, the Evans sisters were much juicier, you are all small fries...or short rounds.
Greater Manitou #6: Well, we need something to show for this trade.
Zach Dallas: There is no trade
Greater Manitou #6: But yes, to answer the priest's question, we are gamblers.
Uriel Iscariot: I wish to pit my faith against your vileness. If you cannot fell me in 18 seconds, you reveal the real skull
Uriel Iscariot: If you should win, and your vilness overcomes my faith, you may take my soul!
Greater Manitou #6: I see.
Uriel Iscariot: What say you!
Greater Manitou #6: Hmm...
Uriel Iscariot: Or are you mere pretenders?
Greater Manitou #6 laughs.
Greater Manitou #6: Very well.
Tweedle: I do feel sorry for the silly mortal.
Twaddle: Don't.
Zach Dallas: He's right. This happens all the time
Ezekial Ikwiano: Notice [1d4 = 2]
Twaddle: Our friend over there is packing some extra firepower.
Zach Dallas: That also happens all the time
Stinky Pete: Notice {+2 Alertness(S)} [Trait roll was a natural 1] [1d6+2 = 12]
Kazemi (Zach Dallas): ignore that
Short Round: Notice {+2 Alertness} [1d4+2 = 5]
Kazemi (Zach Dallas): I thought he said your
Twaddle: Yes. It looks like the little Huckster has made a big friend or two.
Zach Dallas: What's his name? Twoodle?
Tweedle: Hmmm.....
Kazemi (Zach Dallas): ignore that as well
Quorteth (Uriel Iscariot): Nah, its the evilist, most innane thing ever. twitter.
Nick (Stinky Pete): Twiddle. Definitely Twiddle
Kazemi (Zach Dallas): I need to get my pronouns safe. Thought they were talking about #6
Kazemi (Zach Dallas): woo typos
Feneril (Ezekial Ikwiano): I suspect there is a seventh one around here
Greater Manitou #6: We shall commence shortly.
Greater Manitou #6 drifts a little ways back from Uriel.
Ezekial Ikwiano: Notice [Trait roll was a natural 1] [1d6 = 4]
Ezekial Ikwiano: Common Knowledge [1d6 = 7]
Uriel Iscariot: Shortly? What, you scared of a little faith?
Zach Dallas: Spellcasting [1d12 = 4]
Zach Dallas: So, what's he packing?
Zach Dallas: Smarts [1d12 = 7]
Greater Manitou #6: Let us begin!
Round 1
The deck has been shuffled.
Dealing cards...
Ezekial Ikwiano was dealt the Ace of Clubs and the Ten of Hearts.
Ezekial Ikwiano uses the Ace of Clubs.
Tweedle begins casting a spell.
Tweedle: Spellcasting [1d12 = 11]
Ezekial Ikwiano
Ezekial Ikwiano: on hold for now
Greater Manitou #6 begins casting a spell.
Greater Manitou #6: Spellcasting [1d6 = 9]
Greater Manitou #4 begins casting a spell.
Greater Manitou #4: Spellcasting [1d6 = 8]
Short Round
Nick (Short Round): run away!!
Short Round: Agility [1d8 = 3]
Zach Dallas: Oh hell
Greater Manitou begins casting a spell.
Greater Manitou: Spellcasting [1d12 = 9]
Greater Manitou #5 begins casting a spell.
Greater Manitou #5: Spellcasting [1d12 = 10]
Zach Dallas
Kazemi (Zach Dallas): finetune DA
Ezekial Ikwiano: Pimpin' +2 [1d12+2 = 21]
Zach Dallas: Spellcasting [1d6 = 15]
Stinky Pete
Zach Dallas: URIEL MOVE
Stinky Pete: Riding {--2 Special,--2 Untrained} [1d4-4 = -1]
Zach Dallas: Something is coming up from underground
Stinky Pete: Notice {+2 Alertness(S)} [1d10+2 = 6]
Twaddle: Ah yes...see..your faith stops our attacks quite nicely. It does not stop us from other means.
Twaddle concludes the ritual summoning.
Twaddle: Spellcasting [1d6 = 8]
Uriel Iscariot
Uriel Iscariot Just continue with spell
Nick (Stinky Pete): sorry phone
Bone Fiend bursts from the ground.
Ezekial Ikwiano starts running back towards the group.
Ezekial Ikwiano: [1d6 = 1]
Ezekial Ikwiano is using a benny
Zach Dallas: Agility [Trait roll was a natural 1] [1d6 = 5]
Ezekial Ikwiano: [1d6 = 1]
Bone Fiend: Fighting [1d12 = 6]
Bone Fiend: Spirit [1d12 = 6]
Feneril (Ezekial Ikwiano): Abandon plan F!
Bone Fiend: Faith check for Uriel.
Uriel Iscariot: Faith {+2 Conviction, +1 GOD IS WITH HIM} (Battle Damage! -1) [1d12+2 = 13]
Uriel Iscariot Yawns.
Bone Fiend punches Uriel with enough force to drive Uriel about three feet into the ground. The priest seems undamaged.
GM: Uriel is actually not three feet into the ground...the bone fiend's fist bounces off him.
Round 2
Dealing cards...
Ezekial Ikwiano was dealt the Queen of Hearts and the Nine of Spades.
Ezekial Ikwiano uses the Queen of Hearts.
Bone Fiend: Spirit [1d12 = 20]
GM: Faith Check for Uriel.
Uriel Iscariot: Faith {+2 Conviction, +1 GOD IS WITH HIM} [1d12+3 = 13]
Feneril (Ezekial Ikwiano): just let me know when I get back to within roungly 30 feet, I'll just roll a d6 to run every round till then
GM: Fighting [1d12 = 6]
GM: Claws damage [2d10 = 3]
Bone Fiend pummels Uriel. The priest gets knocked around a lot, but takes no damage.
Ezekial Ikwiano
Ezekial Ikwiano: still running back
Ezekial Ikwiano: [1d6 = 5]
Greater Manitou casts Boost Trait on the Bone Fiend.
Short Round
Short Round attempts to shit pants
Short Round: Strength [Trait roll was a natural 1] [1d6 = 3]
Twaddle casts Boost Trait on the Bone Fiend.
Stinky Pete
Short Round: pants are soiled
Uriel Iscariot: Tell me, Do you do get paid for doing these manitou's bidding, or is it pro-bono?
Stinky Pete: Spirit [1d12 = 8]
Greater Manitou #6 casts Boost Trait on the Bone Fiend.
Greater Manitou #5 casts Boost Trait on the Bone Fiend.
Uriel Iscariot
Zach Dallas
Zach Dallas: Blast 4 damage [3d6 = 20]
Zach Dallas tosses a card at the lumbering skeletal behemoth. As it flies through the air, several dozen angelic winged cherubs materialize and fire a stream of roses and lilacs at the bone creature. The flowers wrap around the bones and grow insanely fast, trapping it in place as the vines and creepers burrow through its form and into the ground. With a tremendous explosion of white magical light the bone fiend erupts and distintegrates. The winged cherubs do a high five then group moon the Greater Manitou.
Zach Dallas: Persuasion [1d6 = 8]
Zach Dallas blinks
Zach Dallas: Uh, right
Uriel Iscariot 0.0
Tweedle: Well. Shit.
Kazemi (Zach Dallas): reaction from the manitou?
Tweedle: Okay boys. I think they win this one.
Tweedle vanishes.
Greater Manitou #4: I concur.
GM: The Greater Manitou fade back into the ground.
Short Round
Ezekial Ikwiano arrives out of breath.
Kazemi (Zach Dallas): reaction from the guards?
Stinky Pete: Um...well, shit.
Short Round: Um...well, shit.
Short Round: That was a wasted effort, I guess
GM: The guards appear to be completely dumbfounded.
Zach Dallas waves at the guards
Uriel Iscariot dusts self off, looking unfazed.
Nick (Short Round): To anyone interested, Short Round was built for avoidance, information gathering, and survivability. Not combat
Uriel Iscariot: So
Uriel Iscariot: About that Skull?
Zach Dallas: On the plus side, Detect Arcana is back online for me
Zach Dallas: I feel WAY better than I did earlier
Uriel Iscariot: Notice [1d6 = 4]
Zach Dallas: Look, my hand is un-undead
Uriel Iscariot Zach
Zach Dallas shows his newly normalized hand
Kazemi (Zach Dallas): it does not look magic-resistant
Stinky Pete: Found it!!!
Uriel Iscariot: How's that?
Uriel Iscariot: Huh?
Okay, everyone gathers back near Uriel. The area is very silent. Stinky Pete walks up holding a skull.
Uriel Iscariot: Notice [1d6 = 8]
GM: Zeke, Short Round, and Pete notice that Zach has a string of Hearts (the shape from the deck of cards) floating around him. He smells of warm bread and cinnamon.
Zach Dallas: Top that, priest
GM: Uriel notices that Zach seems less...evil...somehow.
Uriel Iscariot: Hrm....
Uriel Iscariot: Hard to at the moment.
Stinky Pete: I guess, sometimes, even God says "Okay, you've been gheyed over enough for a while"
Ezekial Ikwiano: I didn't even get to shoot nothin'
Uriel Iscariot: You're own fault.coward!
Quorteth (Uriel Iscariot): Your!
Uriel Iscariot: Okay, so how do you know that skull is the one we have to get?
Uriel Iscariot: I don't get how you knew?
Uriel Iscariot: Wasn't those buggers supposed to fess up with it?
TADM: Perhaps they did.
Uriel Iscariot eyes Stinky Pete
Zach Dallas eyes Stinky Pete
Zach Dallas: Spellcasting [1d12 = 10]
Stinky Pete gives it to Uriel
Stinky Pete: Do you want to go digging through a pile of skulls? Be my guest
Uriel Iscariot: Well not really, but what assurance do we have that this is the one?
Uriel Iscariot Common knowledge Check
Uriel Iscariot: Smarts [1d6 = 2]
Zach Dallas: Common Knowledge [1d12 = 5]
Ezekial Ikwiano: Common Knowledge [1d6 = 10]
Uriel Iscariot: Stinky?
Uriel Iscariot: Care to explain?
Stinky Pete: What? It seemed like the right one to me
Uriel Iscariot: Okay....What tribe was this cat and what language did they speak?
Stinky Pete: What are you talking about?
Stinky Pete: Notice {+2 Alertness(S)} [1d10+2 = 11]
Uriel Iscariot: the skull!
Stinky Pete: at the skull
Zach reaches over and touches the skull. Several six inch tall winged demons with hammers materialize around him, then rush forward and beat on the skull such that it makes a gong noise. The demonic creatures howl in rage and spit on the skull. "Stupid Indian Shaman! Don't know why Grimme didn't destroy his soul." The winged demons fly over to Uriel and group moon him, then vanish.
Kazemi (Zach Dallas): do they damage the skull?
TADM: So...likelihood of Zach being able to STEALTH cast anything in this game again? 0%
TADM: Nope.
Stinky Pete: See? I was right. Can we go now?
Uriel Iscariot: Like, Zoinks Scoobs! Lets scram!
Kazemi (Zach Dallas): Was I ever able to stealth cast?
TADM: True.
Uriel Iscariot: I'm glad no one lost their head in this place, which is more than I can say for most people that come through.
Uriel Iscariot has been awarded a benny
TADM: Okay, for humor and bad puns - 1 benny.
Quorteth (Uriel Iscariot): ice burn....
Stinky Pete: I'm sure many have had a jaw-dropping experience here
GM: So, is the party going to leave?
Feneril (Ezekial Ikwiano): sure
Zach Dallas: I guess
Uriel Iscariot: Yes!
Stinky Pete: We better not do too many jokes. Or else, heads will roll
Uriel Iscariot: Out of this place!
Stinky Pete has been awarded a benny
Father Ambrose: Well, I see ya'all found your skull. Was a mite colorful about it even.
Zach Dallas: Why thank you
Ezekial Ikwiano (Alabama drawl): T'wasn't my fault
Father Ambrose: Yeah, them northern boys can't do nothin' right.
Father Ambrose: Well, ya'all travel safe and enjoy your skull.
Ezekial Ikwiano leaves.
Zach Dallas: Thanks. You take care
Father Ambrose: Best of luck ta ya, Ezekial Ikwiano.
Ezekial Ikwiano nods, tips his cap.
Father Ambrose tips his hat to the group and resumes rocking.
Uriel Iscariot: Thank ya kindly!
Stinky Pete gets while the gettin's good
Uriel Iscariot: So...Where Xiu?
Xiu Li walks up.
Quorteth (Uriel Iscariot): Oh lawd.
Xiu Li: The restrooms are a long walk away.
Xiu Li: Anything exciting happen while I was gone?
Ezekial Ikwiano: Don't ask
Uriel Iscariot: An epic tale of forced stupid and morality play.
Xiu Li: So, situation normal?
Uriel Iscariot: Yep.
Ezekial Ikwiano: yep
Zach Dallas: You see that explosion?
Stinky Pete: Pretty much, yeah. We have the skull now, though. Where are we going to take it?
Zach Dallas: Also, my hand's better!
Xiu Li: What explosion?
Xiu Li looks at Zach's hand.
Zach Dallas seems to be in a much better mood
Xiu Li: Hmm...interesting.
Ezekial Ikwiano: He still ain't never gonna touch a woman with it
Xiu Li shrugs.
Zach Dallas: Quiet, you
Xiu Li: Yeah, if he wouldn't get near Peaches, I am quite certain Zach has never seen a grown woman naked.
Xiu Li: Especially since the Internet has not been invented yet.
Xiu Li: So...we are supposed to take the skull back to the Necessity Alliance, right?
Uriel Iscariot: Yes.
Zach Dallas: Yup
Zach Dallas: Which is...rather far north
Zach Dallas: Common Knowledge [1d12 = 4]
Xiu Li: Yep, any ideas how we can get there quickly?
Ezekial Ikwiano: We took a boat last time
Uriel Iscariot: Rail....or magic.
Uriel Iscariot: Know any shaman tribes that can zip us there?
Uriel Iscariot: Or strange incantations?
Uriel Iscariot: We got the skull ya know?
Uriel Iscariot: What have you done for us lately?
Ezekial Ikwiano: Ask the skull how to get there
Uriel Iscariot: Okay.
Uriel Iscariot: Xiu, What Tribe was this guy and what language did they speak?
Uriel Iscariot: We can try asking the skull
It is 1800 on April 7, 1880.
Xiu Li shrugs.
Xiu Li: He was part of the Necessity Alliance.
Xiu Li points at herself.
Xiu Li: Me Chinese, not Injun.
Uriel Iscariot: You should try talking to it!
Xiu Li talks to the skull in Chinese.
Stinky Pete: We could take it back to Born in a Bowl, or to E.L.F's tribe
Xiu Li cranes head to "listen to skull."
Xiu Li: Uh huh. Got it.
Xiu Li: The skull says it doesn't speak Chinese.
Ezekial Ikwiano: Well
Ezekial Ikwiano: We sposed to get it to the necessity alliance
Ezekial Ikwiano: and that's you
Ezekial Ikwiano: so here you go
Xiu Li looks confused.
Xiu Li: When did I become an Indian?
Ezekial Ikwiano: you pointed at yoself
Xiu Li: Yes.
Xiu Li: Clearly Zeke was hit on the head a few times while I was in the bathroom.
Xiu Li: So...north?
Uriel Iscariot: Sure
Stinky Pete: I guess
Xiu Li heads north.
Uriel Iscariot follows
Stinky Pete follows
Short Round also follows, but stays downwind until he can change his pants
Quorteth (Uriel Iscariot): lulz
Ezekial Ikwiano lights a cigar and follows Xiu Li.
Uriel Iscariot Continues following
The party treks along for several hours. The landscape is eerily quiet, only a warm breeze passes through the air from time to time.
Uriel Iscariot: Notice [Trait roll was a natural 1] [1d6 = 7]
GM: It is now nighttime. What would the group like to do?
Uriel Iscariot: I reckon you are all thirsty...
Kazemi (Zach Dallas): sleep
Uriel Iscariot: Let none that thirst find themselves unquenched!
Uriel Iscariot: Faith {+2 Conviction, +1 GOD IS WITH HIM} (Battle Damage! -1) [1d12+2 = 5]
Stinky Pete: I'll keep first watch
Quorteth (Uriel Iscariot): sure.
Uriel Iscariot: sure.
Uriel Iscariot makes sure to say his prayers well.
Stinky Pete: Spirit [1d12 = 10]
Stinky Pete: Notice {+2 Alertness(S)} [1d10+2 = 9]
Kazemi (Zach Dallas): so, second watch?
The group wakes up the next morning, and discovers that Xiu Li is missing. Her gear is still here, but she is gone. On her blanket, scrawled in what looks like blood, is the phrase, "The Angel's Scythe Shall Fall."
Uriel Iscariot: !
Ezekial Ikwiano: Wow Pete, you did a great job on that watch
Uriel Iscariot: Kn Occult {+2 Honey Vial} [1d6+2 = 6]
Uriel Iscariot: Is it blood or something else?
Stinky Pete: Hey, she was there when I finished my watch
Ezekial Ikwiano: You didn't think to wake anyone up to take over for you?
Zach Dallas: Spellcasting [1d12 = 2]
Zach Dallas is using a benny
Zach Dallas: Spellcasting [Trait roll was a natural 1] [1d6 = 11]
GM: Uriel is quite convinced it is blood.
Zach Dallas: Smarts [1d12 = 6]
Nick (Short Round): brb
Zach Dallas: Someone floated in, crossbowed her, picked her up, wrote the message, and left
Uriel Iscariot: Really?
Uriel Iscariot: Wow...
Zach Dallas: Dressed similarly to the Avenging Angels, but black
Ezekial Ikwiano: Notice [1d6 = 8]
Zach Dallas: and he only went after her rather than killing all of us in our sleep
Zach Dallas: because nobody was awake when he came
Uriel Iscariot: Well yeah but we dont have Golden Blood either.
Ezekial Ikwiano has been awarded a benny
Zach Dallas: Golden Blood?
Ezekial Ikwiano: Skull's still here
Uriel Iscariot: Well....
Uriel Iscariot: What do we do?
Zach Dallas: This is...odd, to say the least
Zach Dallas: Common Knowledge [1d12 = 3]
Uriel Iscariot: We really should concentrate getting the skull back and then saving her.
Uriel Iscariot: I mean I know thats cold..but....
Zach Dallas: We've got absolutely no leads on where she is
Garrett Black: Morning gentlemen...you are a ways out here..I was wondering if you could spare some coffee?
Zach Dallas: but Pete, tell me, why weren't you still awake?
Uriel Iscariot: ....Hello?
Uriel Iscariot: Notice [1d6 = 5]
Zach Dallas: Notice {-1 One Eye} [Critical failure!] [1d4-1 = 0]
Garrett Black: Although...I get the feeling this might not be a good time.
Zach Dallas chokes on himself
Zach Dallas coughs
Garrett Black looks like Russell Crowe's character from 3:10 to Yuma.
Kazemi (Zach Dallas): does anyone have coffee?
Uriel Iscariot: I'm afraid I do not good sir.
Garrett Black: Well, my condolences, anything I can do to help?
Uriel Iscariot: Um...yes...I think. Name's Uriel. this is Zach and Stinky....So...we awoke to find our companion mising.
Stinky Pete: As I said before, she was still here when I changed watch.
It is 0700 on April 8, 1880.
Ezekial Ikwiano: changed watch with who?
Garrett Black: Maybe she just went out? She would be the only woman and you know, sometimes they need some time alone.
Garrett Black shrugs.
Uriel Iscariot: Who might you be?
Ezekial Ikwiano: we was all still asleep
Garrett Black looks shocked.
Garrett Black: Oh...sorry...poor manners of me.
Garrett Black: Name's Garrett, pleasure to meet you Uriel.
Uriel Iscariot: Hey there.
Garrett Black: And Zach and Stinky...
Stinky Pete recognition of name
Stinky Pete: Smarts [1d10 = 8]
Zach Dallas: Spellcasting [1d6 = 11]
Stinky Pete: Name's Pete, actually. Stinky's just a nickname
Ezekial Ikwiano: An accurate nickname
Uriel Iscariot: So yes, what brings you to these parts Garret?
Zach Dallas: Common Knowledge [1d12 = 7]
GM: The name Garrett is pretty common, and none of you remember ever seeing this guy's face on a wanted poster.
Garrett Black: Well, I was headed north and my horse threw a shoe, bucked me off, and ran for the hills.
Garrett Black tries to knock some dust off his pants and black duster.
Zach Dallas looks surprised
Zach Dallas: Really? New horse?
Garrett Black: Nah, I'd had it for a while, bought it from some Arabic guy up in Sacramento.
Garrett Black: Akhbar or something like that.
Garrett Black: Achmed...
Garrett Black: Whatever.
Kazemi (Zach Dallas): lol
Uriel Iscariot: Well where are you going to anyway?
Nick (Stinky Pete): It's a tarp!
Garrett Black: I was headed up to Lion's Roar, then on to Shan Fan. I heard there was plenty of work for a gunslinger up there. Where're ya'all headed?
Uriel Iscariot: Well,
Zach Dallas: Back up towards Lion's Roar, actually
Zach Dallas: Although to be honest I'm rather worried about our companion
Garrett Black: Well, women folk do sometimes run off.
Garrett Black looks suspiciously at the group.
Uriel Iscariot: Um....
Garrett Black: Ya'all weren't beatin' on her or nothin' right?
Zach Dallas laughs
Uriel Iscariot: Im pretty sure this isn't something like that
Garrett Black: 'cause then I'd have a big problem with ya.
Zach Dallas: She could've killed any one of us without a problem
Uriel Iscariot: Shes more the type to be beatin us, which is what makes her abduction worrysome
Zach Dallas: Rather good at martial arts
Garrett Black: I see, so like a monk or somethin'?
Uriel Iscariot: yep
Zach Dallas: Yeah
Ezekial Ikwiano: Couldn't handle her cocain though
Garrett Black looks at Zeke and laughs.
Garrett Black: Well, most monks can't handle cocaine...trying to get her a bit silly, then slap her with your trouser snake?
Garrett Black: Can't say I approve, but I understand.
Ezekial Ikwiano: She was out like a light before the cocaine
Ezekial Ikwiano: if I wanted to have my way I woulda kept the cocain for miself
Garrett Black: I see.
Ezekial Ikwiano: I like whores though
Garrett Black: Well, sun's comin' up. Fun as it is to jaw with ya'all, if'n ya don't have coffee I'm thinkin' makin' good time means walkin' forward.
Garrett Black shrugs at Zeke.
Uriel Iscariot: Id agree there. We do have to press on folks.
Garrett Black: That I can understand, a willin' woman is always more fun, and those whores sometimes can do amazing things.
Uriel Iscariot: Lets get moving people
Garrett Black: So, I can help ya look for the girl, or head north with ya, or skeedadle on my own.
Ezekial Ikwiano: I say we split up
Zach Dallas: If you could give us a hand for a bit seeing if we can find her. Otherwise we've got to assume that she went off on her own for some reason
Garrett Black: Sure thing, I'm no good trackin' but I'll look around.
Garrett Black: What's she look like?
Zach Dallas describes Xiu Li
Ezekial Ikwiano: Chinese, cute, kicks like a mule
Garrett Black: All right.
Uriel Iscariot: And she was prolly taken by the heretics
Uriel Iscariot: HERETICS I SAY!
Garrett Black: Tracking [Critical failure!] [1d4 = 1]
Ezekial Ikwiano: Uriel, why don't you and I go after her
Ezekial Ikwiano: Pete and Zach can get the skull back to the necessity alliance
TADM: Garrett Black: Tracking [Critical failure]
TADM: LOL
Stinky Pete: Tracking [1d6 = 15]
Garrett Black: Hmm....I think I'm making a bigger mess than helpin' out.
Uriel Iscariot: ZING!
GM: Pete actually finds a trail of blood that leads south, the drops drop out about every ten feet.
Garrett Black: Wow, that's really damn amazing.
Zach Dallas: That's really far apart for the blood drops, isn't it?
Ezekial Ikwiano: She prolly menstrauting
Ezekial Ikwiano: Taste like a mouthful of pennies when they do
Uriel Iscariot: ...
Zach Dallas coughs
Uriel Iscariot: Ezekial Ikwiano, save your breath.
Garrett Black blinks.
Uriel Iscariot: We' prolly gonna get in a scuffle real soon like
Ezekial Ikwiano: I say we follow these blood drops
TADM: (POLL) If Zeke came back as Harrowed, and the manitou was in control, would anyone notice?
Zach Dallas: That's my check, btw
Stinky Pete: Let's go
Kazemi (Zach Dallas): Also, I'd kill you. We can't afford to have two enemies
Ezekial Ikwiano follows Pete and the blood trail.
Uriel Iscariot: Heretics....
Zach Dallas sighs
Uriel Iscariot: Deranged cult....
Zach Dallas: Damn
Zach Dallas: Well, let's see how far we get
Zach Dallas: Thank you for your help, Garrett
Zach Dallas tips his hat
Garrett Black: No problem, good luck finding your girl.
TADM: This strikes me as a really good point to stop for the night.
Zach Dallas: Thanks
Campaign saved.