The Labyrinth RP

[Ephesos]

...I cannot in good faith enable the original image.

 

Also, due to his actions in the past session, Kaval has earned a perk. Also because I finally figured out one for him.

 

Seize the Advantage

Whenever you target an enemy that doesn't see you coming, you get +4 on the attack roll.

 

EDIT: Changed the name to something more positive. Sorry, Kaval.

[nikki.]

...Check, my druid friend.

[Ephesos]

Why yes, your avatar is nice and happy. Were you trying to make a point, perhaps?

[Aran]

Quote:

Kaval
"You don't have any rope, do you?"
Temmyn
"I'm a frayed knot."
DM (Ephesos)
(A glass ball rockets out of the pit and dings Temmyn in the head.)

Quote:

Temmyn
"Shall we head back? I'm itching to see if we can fix the machine and find amazing new ways to almost die."

[Ephesos]

Remember, I could still give Temmyn this perk.

 

EDIT:

 

Here's your fun fact about the campaign for the day. Currently leading the pack on fumbles is Thuja with 7, despite not having been present for the entire campaign. Kaval, on the other hand, is far out in front on critical hits, with 10 to his name (the next highest is actually Thuja, with 4).

 

And to date, the party has come up with 26 critical successes, but a whopping 34 fumbles. Hunh. And yes, I'm keeping track now.

[Balladeer]

Originally Posted By: Ephesos

Remember, I could still give Temmyn this perk.

That perk is full of win... but I somehow feel it would consume the entire game if we tried to implement it.

[Aran]

I'm considering taking a level in Healing magic, if that's okay. Having a backup would be a safer in many situations (eg. the session that Lindy spent unconscious), and it would allow us to restore health faster.

 

(And man, I'd love a perk that doesn't suck. )

[Ephesos]

Session #8 is over, and it was EPIC!

 

I'll have the log posted soon, but for now, everyone levels up! And John levels up twice, for being extra-competent tonight.

 

Also, the following perks have been earned:

 

John: Reckless Abandon - When you have less than half your health remaining, you get +1 to all rolls.

 

Thuja: Happy Misanthrope - You get a +2 bonus to Intimidate against humanoids, and a -2 penalty to Diplomacy against them. Reverse that against non-humanoids.

[Sarachim]

Click to reveal..

Name: Kaval
Occupation: Laborer
Race: Human

Strength: 3
Dexterity: 7
Intelligence: 1
HP: 20/22 (+3)
Stamina: 6/10

Skills:
Martial (improvised weapons): 6
Stealth: 3
Artifice: 2
Nature: 1
Defense/Parry: 3 (+2)

Inventory:
Gravity torch
Dead shark
Shark teeth
Sharkskin cloak (being worn)
Bone spear
Stones (two sets)
Old taco
Mundane torch
1 limp dagger
Saw and file
57 silver coins

Perk: "Seize the Advantage." +4 to attack rolls when enemy is unaware.

[Dikiyoba]

Yay perk!

 

Click to reveal..

Name: Thuja Goaway

Occupation: Hunter-Gatherer

Race: Human

Alignment: Misanthropic

 

Strength: 4

Dexterity: 4

Intelligence: 2

HP: 22/26

Stamina: 5/10

 

Martial (Axe): 5

Martial (Boomerang): 5

Nature: 3

Perception: 2

Stealth: 2

Intimidate: 1

 

Inventory:

1 stone axe

5 boomerangs (Note: Must be retrieved rather than returning automatically.)

1 dead shark

1 shortsword

 

Happy Misanthrope - Gain +2 to Intimidate vs humanoids, -2 to Diplomacy. Reverse that vs non-humanoids.

Note to Dikiyoba's self: Punch John a few times at the beginning of next session.

[Nioca]

Epic excitement? Check. Level up? Check. Shortswords? Check.

Click to reveal.. (Etris's Stats)

Name: Etris Tanner

Occupation: Battlemage

Race: Human

Alignment: Neutral-Overconfident

 

Strength: 3

Dexterity: 2

Intelligence: 6

Health: 10/22 (+3)

Speed: 5

Stamina: 7/10

 

Magic (Force): 7 (+1)

Magic (Light): 2

Magic (Divination): 1

Martial (Shortswords): 4 (+1)

Bluff: 2

Artifice: 2

Elemental Lore: 1

 

ITEMS

Stygia (Sentient Flying Shortsword)

Bottle of Yellow Soporific Spores (Saps stamina)

Razor-rimmed Throwing Hat

Shortsword x3 (No, I'm not kidding)

Copper Pieces x7

Healing Potion x2

Large Fork

 

 

PERKS

"Burning the Candle at Both Ends" - Whenever you would spend your last stamina point in combat, the attack in question is an automatic critical hit.

[Nioca]

Also, some of the after-adventure musings. Mildly edited and cleaned up, with some spoilers stricken.

Click to reveal.. (Only mild ones.)

Ephesos (12:46:21 AM): End session.

Duck (12:46:56 AM): (Bye, everyone!)

Nioca (12:47:01 AM): Bye!

Jewels (12:47:02 AM): bye

Sarachim (12:47:07 AM): (Bye, Duck)

Dikiyoba (12:47:09 AM): Bye

Nioca (12:47:11 AM): That was close.

Rowen (12:47:13 AM): Volcano explodes, party dies.

Nioca (12:47:17 AM): Really, really close.

(12:47:17 AM) Duck has left the room.

Ephesos (12:47:17 AM): (Bye duck!)

Ephesos (12:47:29 AM): Hm... methinks everyone gets to level up after this epicness.

Sarachim (12:47:34 AM): For sure.

Nioca (12:47:35 AM): Yay!

Dikiyoba (12:47:35 AM): Is he still at two HP?

Rowen (12:47:36 AM): Close for a number of us.

Ephesos (12:47:41 AM): So, thoughts, everyone?

Nioca (12:47:48 AM): I liked it.

Sarachim (12:47:56 AM): Yeah, me too.

Rowen (12:47:57 AM): It was fun but hard.

Jewels (12:48:05 AM): Lindy healed everyone for 5 after the fight.

Nioca (12:48:07 AM): Though I wasn't too keen on passing out again.

Sarachim (12:48:30 AM): The bog especially. The running/fighting and the big hill fight were both well done.

Jewels (12:48:30 AM): You're own fault for spending stamina like you down tictacs.

Sarachim (12:48:43 AM): Also, thank you for the gravity torch. It's even more fun than the shark.

Ephesos (12:48:52 AM): I'm glad you like it.

Nioca (12:48:55 AM): To be fair, two of those stamina were lost by accident.

Rowen (12:49:02 AM): I went easy on Temmyn's stamina I thought.

Ephesos (12:49:13 AM): (runs off to re-tally the fumbles and crits)

Jewels (12:49:18 AM): I loved it Eph. The preplanning was as epic as the rolls.

Ephesos (12:49:28 AM): 14 fumbles.

Sarachim (12:49:41 AM): Yeah, how the hell did that happen?

Ephesos (12:49:57 AM): But, 13 crits.

Ephesos (12:50:09 AM): This session had more dice than any other session.

Jewels (12:50:13 AM): Four of which came with spiffy visions for Lindy.

Dikiyoba (12:50:57 AM): Am I ahead of Kaval again?

Ephesos (12:50:59 AM): Those. Are. So. Much. Fun.

Ephesos (12:51:12 AM): Thuja, Kaval, and Etris are tied with 8 fumbles.

Sarachim (12:51:17 AM): Still, that's the number you'd expect from 280 die rolls, or 40 per player. No way we had that many. \

Jewels (12:51:19 AM): Indeed.

Ephesos (12:51:37 AM): Kaval still has the lead with 10 critical hits (none tonight, though), and Thuja has the next-most with 8.

Rowen (12:52:10 AM): One beheaded a goblin :-D

Sarachim (12:52:32 AM): Thuja had four tonight? That's just unfair.

Ephesos (12:52:36 AM): This log is going to take a long time to prepare, is all.

Dikiyoba (12:52:53 AM): I blame Rowen.

Ephesos (12:53:32 AM): This time, I figured I'd try some D&D-ish skill challenges. I hope they worked.

Jewels (12:53:50 AM): They seemed to work perfectly.

Rowen (12:53:56 AM): I liked them. Nice change in pace.

Nioca (12:54:15 AM): They did.

[snip]

Rowen (12:59:12 AM): John did have some mad skills tonight.

Ephesos (12:59:14 AM): And I think he's earned a perk...

Sarachim (12:59:18 AM): He has 2 strength and no sword skill.

Dikiyoba (12:59:21 AM): I still need to punch him a few times, though.

Ephesos (12:59:52 AM): Reckless Abandon - When you have less than half your health, you gain a +1 bonus to all of your rolls.

Ephesos (1:00:03 AM): Thoughts?

Dikiyoba (1:00:15 AM): Eph: Can you repost my perk real fast?

Nioca (1:00:27 AM): Sounds good.

Rowen (1:00:31 AM): He will always have that bonus on then, he runs around at 1 or 2 hp all the time.

Dikiyoba (1:00:35 AM): Heh

Ephesos (1:00:45 AM): Happy Misanthrope - Gain +2 to Intimidate vs humanoids, -2 to Diplomacy. Reverse that vs non-humanoids.

Jewels (1:01:02 AM): Maybe add When you have only one HP left, you gain +2 or +3?

Sarachim (1:01:08 AM): Conall and Temmyn still don't have perks.

Ephesos (1:01:13 AM): Pretty much, yeah. But his HP is so low, that it's hard to risk it. Thus the abandon.

Ephesos (1:01:19 AM): I know, I need ones for them.

Dikiyoba (1:01:45 AM): Yeah, he does have low health most the time, but I like it.

Rowen (1:02:06 AM): I tried to think up witty comments like Aran always does but I'm not so good at it.

Dikiyoba (1:02:09 AM): It will be our incentive to either heal him to make him look bad or to always keep his health low and maybe have him die.

Rowen (1:02:24 AM): I like Johns perk.

Sarachim (1:02:32 AM): So he's a better fighter and he might die? I'm not seeing the downside.

Dikiyoba (1:02:46 AM): That's why it's a perk, not a disadvantage.

Sarachim (1:02:52 AM): The man tried to steal my torch. The one item in this world that I love, and he takes it from me.

Jewels (1:03:13 AM): He tried stealing my book too... the little rat.

Rowen (1:03:17 AM): Then he went for the book. What was up with that?

Jewels (1:03:26 AM): idk, he wouldn't tell me.

Dikiyoba (1:03:34 AM): We'll need therapy once this is over.

Dikiyoba (1:03:53 AM): "Hi, my name is Thuja. I had John as a fellow party member..."

Jewels (1:04:07 AM): lol

Sarachim (1:04:28 AM): It's funny how roleplaying convention prevents us from just abandoning him, even though that's exactly what our characters would do.

Nioca (1:04:44 AM): Would they, though?

Nioca (1:04:52 AM): Even on his worst day, he still makes good cannon fodder.

Jewels (1:04:53 AM): Lindy sure wants to...

Jewels (1:05:15 AM): Wastes the precious health points she pumps into him all the time.

Ephesos (1:05:19 AM): Nothing in the game is preventing you from abandoning him.

Sarachim (1:05:31 AM): Yeah, but it'd be mean.

Ephesos (1:05:35 AM): I just think the game would be less fun without him, given his recent tendency towards epicness.

Jewels (1:06:21 AM): He did almost chop Lindy's head off with a misguided hat though... He is epic in both success and failure.

Sarachim (1:06:30 AM): Okay, I hate to be the one to do this, but seriously: gambler's fallacy.

Ephesos (1:06:37 AM): Hm... yeah, John gets to level up twice, in fact. Then everyone's level 5.

Nioca (1:06:45 AM):

Ephesos (1:07:08 AM): Or is that too much, you think?

Sarachim (1:07:35 AM): It depends. If our universal hatred for John amuses you, and your goal is to stoke it with jealously, then no, it's perfect.

Nioca (1:07:40 AM): Maybe... Then again, I suppose he is facing things outside his competence zone.

Rowen (1:07:49 AM): For how John did tonight, I think it is okay, He did perform epicly.

Sleeping Dragon (1:07:57 AM): But really, is the group better or worse off for having him?

Nioca (1:08:17 AM): Tonight? I'd say better.

Dikiyoba (1:08:21 AM): If he has a perk, then one level is good for tonight.

Dikiyoba (1:08:37 AM): We should abandon him and make him to a side session to level up.

Dikiyoba (1:08:41 AM): It would be epic.

Sarachim (1:09:02 AM): Well, because Eph by his own admission custom-builds fights to suit party strength, in the long run no character is a plus or a minus in battle. So we have to ask, is he good or bad outside of battle?

Nioca (1:09:07 AM): Except he draws damage like nobody's business. He'd be dead an hour in.

Dikiyoba (1:09:35 AM): All enemies should be bluffable.

Dikiyoba (1:09:42 AM): Or desperately need hats.

Sarachim (1:10:04 AM): True. Just once, before we finish, I'd like to see six guys bidding for his five hats.

Ephesos (1:10:06 AM): Hah.

Nioca (1:10:58 AM): Also, I am now the proud owner of 4 shortswords.

Nioca (1:11:08 AM): Maybe I need to go into the shortsword business...

Ephesos (1:11:30 AM): I thought it was 3... well, and the flying one.

Nioca (1:11:37 AM): Yeah, that makes 4.

Ephesos (1:11:38 AM): Thuja and John both took 1.

Sarachim (1:11:39 AM): Temmyn's got two wrenches, a longsword, and a hammer.

Nioca (1:12:03 AM): I'm surprised Temmyn isn't getting feedback from all the metal...

Sarachim (1:12:08 AM): And a torch, whose martial value he does not seem to appreciate.

Jewels (1:12:16 AM): Lindy would take a short sword but then she'd have to drop the shield. Though she didn't use the shield at all this session, in theory, it's more useful to her than a sword is with her 1Strength.

Nioca (1:12:35 AM): Lindy has a shield?

Nioca (1:12:40 AM): Oh, right, the doorshield.

Ephesos (1:12:44 AM): Yeah.

Jewels (1:12:56 AM): The door that no one would help her blast in half. *sniff*

Nioca (1:13:06 AM): So, any ideas what the quotes will be this session?

Sarachim (1:13:19 AM): It's too epic for me to pick one now.

Ephesos (1:13:57 AM): I have no idea... it will take forever to sort this out.

Jewels (1:13:57 AM): I'd prefer not to sway Eph's opinon by throwing out mine.

Dikiyoba (1:14:11 AM): The giant spider line definitely needs to appear.

Nioca (1:14:18 AM): Yes, definitely.

Ephesos (1:14:39 AM): What giant spider line?

Nioca (1:14:51 AM): The giant spider?

Nioca (1:14:55 AM): You went after it?

Nioca (1:15:01 AM): Then fumbled when attacking it?

Dikiyoba (1:15:04 AM): Rowen didn't pick up anything while I was away, right? No goblin fingers or whatnot?

Ephesos (1:15:13 AM): ...omg. Without editing, the newest log is 200kb. Much longer than any other one so far.

Ephesos (1:15:23 AM): Thrice as long as last session.

Rowen (1:15:24 AM): Gah, I can't seem to open up the Sanctuary

Ephesos (1:15:30 AM): Webs is down.

Ephesos (1:15:37 AM): Construction apparently cut a wire at their HQ.

Ephesos (1:15:41 AM): It is fail.

Rowen (1:15:48 AM): :-(

Ephesos (1:16:26 AM): Yup.

Dikiyoba (1:17:08 AM): Speaking of technology fails, sorry about the beginning of the session. The deity of technology apparently hated me today.

Ephesos (1:17:19 AM): Hey, no problem. It worked.

Ephesos (1:17:35 AM): We ran a little late, which is my fault for squeezing the final encounter in tonight.

Nioca (1:17:43 AM): That's alright.

Nioca (1:17:56 AM): If session 5 taught us anything, it's that startup is slow.

Ephesos (1:17:58 AM): I simply didn't want to start a session that way.

Dikiyoba (1:18:13 AM): Yeah, volcanos are much more exciting.

Ephesos (1:18:18 AM): This is actually way more than I thought would happen tonight.

Ephesos (1:18:28 AM): We might be nearing the end of the road. :-(

Nioca (1:18:41 AM): Alas.

Ephesos (1:18:43 AM): Hard to say, though. :-)

Dikiyoba (1:18:46 AM): Better hire a construction crew to build more road, then.

Ephesos (1:18:51 AM): Heh.

Rowen (1:19:09 AM): When should I get you a character for the next rp?

Ephesos (1:19:21 AM): Oh, I haven't even really begun talking about it yet.

Ephesos (1:19:29 AM): It can wait a little while.

Ephesos (1:19:47 AM): I plan on having some kind of group brainstormy thing about that at some point.

Sarachim (1:20:09 AM): I leveled up. +2 to parry.

Nioca (1:20:37 AM): Oh, that reminds me. Adding to strength doesn't automatically get you an extra hit point, does it?

Dikiyoba (1:20:37 AM): I leveled up too.

Ephesos (1:20:54 AM): Nioca: Hunh?

Ephesos (1:21:01 AM): Oh. Um.

Ephesos (1:21:03 AM): Hm.

Ephesos (1:21:11 AM): I can't remember what we ruled with John.

Ephesos (1:21:19 AM): I think the answer was no. So, no.

Nioca (1:21:25 AM): Alright.

Nioca (1:21:45 AM): I think I'm going to think up a unique skill for my level up.

Ephesos (1:22:18 AM): Hunh. Is Thuja at full health?

Sarachim (1:22:39 AM): Diki's level up says 22/26

Nioca (1:22:45 AM): I don't think so...

Ephesos (1:22:49 AM): I had Thuja at full health.

Ephesos (1:22:52 AM): Dunno why.

Nioca (1:22:56 AM): I had her at 21/26

Rowen (1:23:21 AM): I have Temmyn at 10/4

Ephesos (1:23:35 AM): 10/5 was what I had.

Ephesos (1:23:37 AM): Weird.

Rowen (1:24:14 AM): Spent one two stamina during the portal conflict.

Sarachim (1:24:19 AM): Oops, there's a mistake in Kaval's. I wrote 15/22, but it's really 20/22.

Ephesos (1:24:22 AM): Okay, I need to go attend to laundry. I'll leave the window open, so feel free to argue for your current status. Back shortly.

Rowen (1:25:29 AM): Think Lindy knows about the portals affecting her yet?

Jewels (1:25:50 AM): I'd say it's a safe bet they all figure it out at next sessions rest

Dikiyoba (1:26:48 AM): Thuja's a guy. I know all the dirt makes it hard to tell.

Nioca (1:27:06 AM): Crap, I did it again.

Sarachim (1:27:08 AM): You'd think the way he kills people with an axe would be enough of a hint.

Sleeping Dragon (1:30:51 AM): My female orc warrior character in World of Warcraft might have a problem with that assumption.

Jewels (1:32:08 AM): Heading to bed. Thanks for the game night everyone.

Nioca (1:32:14 AM): Bye!

Jewels (1:32:17 AM): /action does a group huggle.

Jewels (1:32:23 AM): oops wrong syntax

Jewels (1:32:31 AM): /me does a group huggle.

Jewels (1:32:35 AM): there

Sleeping Dragon (1:32:41 AM): <3

Dikiyoba (1:32:54 AM): Bye

(1:33:15 AM) Jewels has left the room.

Rowen (1:33:20 AM): I'm off also. Thanks for letting me play a bit tonight and take care.

Sarachim (1:33:27 AM): Thanks for helping out

Sarachim (1:33:29 AM): 'Night

Dikiyoba (1:33:32 AM): Yeah, thanks. Bye

(1:33:42 AM) Rowen has left the room.

Nioca (1:33:58 AM): Bye!

Ephesos (1:37:28 AM): Oookay, back.

Ephesos (1:37:58 AM): Aw, I missed the group huggle. :-(

Nioca (1:38:02 AM): Alas.

Nioca (1:38:56 AM): What are the totals?

Ephesos (1:39:06 AM): What totals?

Nioca (1:39:14 AM): Erm...

Nioca (1:39:21 AM): HP/Stamina.

Ephesos (1:39:27 AM): ...hm.

Nioca (1:39:32 AM): I thought that was what the housekeeping was about.

Dikiyoba (1:39:34 AM): That's okay, Eph. I totally dived out of the way and shoved you in to take my place.

Ephesos (1:39:41 AM): Heh.

Ephesos (1:40:22 AM): So I had Kaval at 20/22, 6/10.

Ephesos (1:40:28 AM): That much seems to be correct.

Ephesos (1:40:41 AM): I had Conall at 17/28, 1/10.

Ephesos (1:40:56 AM): Etris at 7/19, 7/10.

Ephesos (1:41:14 AM): Temmyn at 10/16, 5/10.

Ephesos (1:41:27 AM): John at 6/13, 5/10.

Ephesos (1:41:41 AM): Thuja at 26/26?, 8/10.

Ephesos (1:41:50 AM): Lindy at 13/13, 5/10.

Dikiyoba (1:41:53 AM): Huh.

Ephesos (1:42:00 AM): Yeah, not sure how that one happened.

Dikiyoba (1:42:44 AM): For stamina, Rowen told me I was at 6.

Dikiyoba (1:43:01 AM): Then I lost two more in the bog, regained two from resting, and spent one in combat.

Dikiyoba (1:43:11 AM): I think.

Ephesos (1:43:33 AM): 'k, so we'll put it at 5.

Ephesos (1:43:50 AM): (I swear, this won't matter at all once you guys rest. )

Ephesos (1:44:09 AM): The health shouldn't be at full, but I don't know...

Dikiyoba (1:44:14 AM): Health... I was at 18/22 before leveling up.

Ephesos (1:44:18 AM): Oh

Ephesos (1:44:21 AM): Hm.

Ephesos (1:44:26 AM): Okay, 22/26. There we go.

Dikiyoba (1:44:51 AM): Yay! I win! I put my character in a worse position, but I win.

Sarachim (1:45:16 AM): We're about to rest anyway.

Ephesos (1:45:43 AM): Exactly. All of this will change.

Nioca (1:46:11 AM): That's nice. 'Cause I'm still half-dead, even with the healing and level-up HP.

Ephesos (1:46:36 AM): You have 7 stamina, though. I honestly don't know how you pulled it off, but yeah.

Nioca (1:46:51 AM): And I thank you for that stamina.

Nioca (1:47:32 AM): (Otherwise, I'd be at 2)

Ephesos (1:48:23 AM): Thank Hoggle.

Ephesos (1:48:30 AM): He came prepared.

Sarachim (1:48:55 AM): Yeah, woo for Hoggle.

Ephesos (1:49:47 AM): Isn't it nice to have a friendly NPC?

Nioca (1:50:01 AM): How does Amplification sound as a skill? Basically, it boosts spell damage more than levels in intelligence or the appropriate spell category, but doesn't effect the success/fail rate at all. And he can put stamina into it to further bolster attack power.

Sarachim (1:50:07 AM): "Hey, I need all your mages to stress themselves half to death while your fighters battle a massive zombie horde. Here is a stamina potion."

Sarachim (1:50:22 AM): Seriously, he could at least have handed out the healing potions before the battle.

Ephesos (1:51:02 AM): I don't know if I like Amplification.

Ephesos (1:51:14 AM): Sounds more like a perk than a trainable skill.

Ephesos (1:51:27 AM): And while Etris would be eligible for such, I don't know about it just yet.

Ephesos (1:51:33 AM): And he was saving them.

Nioca (1:52:26 AM): Ah, well. I can always put them into shortswords and force magic.

Dikiyoba (1:55:24 AM): You should try to get an endurance skill so you can eventually raise stamina.

Nioca (1:55:43 AM): Tell me about it.

Nioca (1:55:52 AM): It's becoming a once-a-session thing.

Nioca (1:56:00 AM): A sport! "Etris Fainting"!

Ephesos (1:56:08 AM): I'd watch that.

Dikiyoba (1:56:16 AM): We'll start judging your collapses, then.

Nioca (1:56:28 AM): "Place your bets! Will he fall forwards, or backwards?"

Dikiyoba (1:56:37 AM): I'm going to call today's an 8.5.

Nioca (1:56:44 AM): "Ooh, someone made a bet for sideways, such a longshot."

Nioca (1:56:51 AM):

Sarachim (1:56:55 AM): Maybe he's wearing a Victorian corset under his armor.

Nioca (1:57:13 AM): I wish he had armor.

Dikiyoba (1:57:15 AM): It'll get even better once we start smacking you around in an effort to make sure we win our bets.

Nioca (1:57:38 AM): That was going to be the price of the shortsword I was selling to John. His breastplate.

Ephesos (1:57:48 AM): Heh.

Nioca (1:57:51 AM): I suppose it worked out better in hindsight that it fell through.

Sarachim (1:57:56 AM): I considered taking Temmyn's hammer and using it to re-size some of the goblin armor, but then I decided armor conflicted with Kaval's ninja tactics.

Ephesos (1:58:04 AM): "ack... breastplate... too... small...."

Dikiyoba (1:58:10 AM): *faints*

Nioca (1:58:28 AM): I'm just thankful Etris is low to the ground.

Ephesos (2:02:06 AM): ...so, wow. I'm looking back at all the stuff I prepared now.

Sarachim (2:02:23 AM): Why wow?

Ephesos (2:03:47 AM): No, it just makes about half of the other sessions look pathetic. I feel like a bit of a chump.

Nioca (2:04:19 AM): Hey, new system. Now that everyone's used to the rules, we can handle more epic stuff like this.

Sarachim (2:04:20 AM): Nah, you're good at this.

Nioca (2:04:30 AM): If you'd started like that...

Nioca (2:04:44 AM): Well, it's nice to ease into it is what I'm saying.

Sarachim (2:04:46 AM): That's a good point. We'd have been completely lost.

Ephesos (2:05:20 AM): True.

Ephesos (2:05:49 AM): I mean, the thing is, the early maze had been pretty well planned-out, even though it was all randomly-generated.

Nioca (2:06:19 AM): Even the octopus?

Ephesos (2:06:41 AM): The octopus was improv-ed.

Ephesos (2:06:50 AM): To the betterment of the campaign, I think.

Sarachim (2:07:07 AM): Yeah, that was fun.

Ephesos (2:08:12 AM): Yeah, I liked it.

Nioca (2:09:25 AM): I hope showing that one goblin mercy will help us in the long run.

Sarachim (2:09:38 AM): ... we cut off one of its fingers, and it escaped.

Nioca (2:09:47 AM): No, the other one.

Ephesos (2:10:01 AM): Yeah, one was unconscious, but only Etris noticed.

Sarachim (2:10:23 AM): Oh, that one. Well, we killed three of its friends, and then we tortured the fourth one, and then we didn't so much show it mercy as ignore it because we were talking about something else.

Ephesos (2:10:27 AM): See, that's one thing I like about this form. It lets me be sneaky about who knows what.

Dikiyoba (2:10:38 AM): Yeah, that is nice.

Dikiyoba (2:10:42 AM): If occasionally confusing.

Sarachim (2:11:09 AM): Yeah, in one session I forgot I had my speakers off or something and just never noticed any of the things Eph told me privately.

Sarachim (2:11:13 AM): But otherwise, pretty cool.

Nioca (2:11:52 AM): Also, this was our first full Duck-John session.

Nioca (2:12:14 AM): Can't exactly say it gets boring when he's around.

Sarachim (2:12:32 AM): You know, for two hours a session, he's not so bad.

Ephesos (2:12:54 AM): I'm a huge fan of him after this session.

Ephesos (2:13:06 AM): Can't say he half-asses anything, that's for sure.

Nioca (2:13:14 AM): He's like our party's Elan.

Nioca (2:13:18 AM): Only evil.

Dikiyoba (2:13:53 AM): More like neutral.

Sleeping Dragon (2:13:53 AM): Even more so if I can get Duck to continue the romance subplot I started with Lindy much earlier.

Dikiyoba (2:14:08 AM): Unless you're a communist, that is. Die, commie, die.

Ephesos (2:14:26 AM): He's definitely chaotic neutral.

Ephesos (2:14:49 AM): And that romance subplot... seems like it's been thoroughly torched.

Sleeping Dragon (2:15:02 AM): Never lose faith, never.

Sleeping Dragon (2:15:13 AM): There is always hope for love.

Sarachim (2:15:50 AM): You know what else is torched? John, if he steals my torch again.

Sarachim (2:16:15 AM): Gah, I think Kaval's hatred for John is spilling over into me.

Nioca (2:16:29 AM): Leveled up. +1 Force magic, +1 Shortswords. Also, I named my batsword Stygia.

Ephesos (2:16:56 AM): Heh.

Nioca (2:17:28 AM): Hey, it's getting useful now. Nailed a hit where I missed, and didn't let a good pun go to waste.

Nioca (2:17:33 AM): Well...

Nioca (2:17:36 AM): Mediocre pun.

Ephesos (2:18:01 AM): You say that like puns are tolerable.

Sarachim (2:18:10 AM): Yeah, I wish we hadn't killed all the other magic weapons.

Nioca (2:18:13 AM): Well, it made fast work of the other goblin.

Sarachim (2:18:27 AM): Puns are better than quotes, and so far nobody's quoted anything.

Nioca (2:18:30 AM): That's gotta count for something.

Ephesos (2:18:36 AM): True, true.

Nioca (2:19:13 AM): But I'm half-tempted to bury the sword in an enemy, then try engaging someone else and see if the sword picks up on the cue.

Dikiyoba (2:20:13 AM): I feel like my inventory is really empty.

Ephesos (2:20:15 AM): We will see.

Dikiyoba (2:20:27 AM): But I guess it has an entire shark. That probably limits my options some.

Ephesos (2:20:29 AM): Thuja seems like one to travel light, though.

Sarachim (2:20:53 AM): I feel like my inventory is bloated.

Nioca (2:22:40 AM): Also, I was really looking forward to sticking sunfish in my nose. But Ephesos took away my fish...

Sarachim (2:22:54 AM): When did that happen?

Ephesos (2:23:02 AM): Stuffing old fish up your nose would hardly have been an improvement.

Nioca (2:23:04 AM): Right when Jareth dumped us in the bog.

Nioca (2:23:19 AM): But you admit it would have been an improvement, right?

Nioca (2:23:22 AM):

Dikiyoba (2:23:52 AM): Passing out was probably more enjoyable.

Ephesos (2:23:53 AM): I think it was pretty awesome that you failed the roll to not vomit with your last point of stamina, though. Should've spent stamina to crit it.

Ephesos (2:24:10 AM): Etris tries to hard not to vomit that he passes out.

Dikiyoba (2:24:25 AM): Also, that fumble of mine right there was hilariously appropriate.

Ephesos (2:24:40 AM): Yep.

Nioca (2:24:52 AM): "I see a wall!"

Ephesos (2:25:01 AM): Fumbles out of combat are fun.

Ephesos (2:25:11 AM): Thankfully, nobody fumbled during the skill challenge.

Nioca (2:25:16 AM): Mind, fumbles in combat are fun too.

Sarachim (2:25:24 AM): No, they are not.

Nioca (2:25:28 AM): Especially fumbles that work.

Ephesos (2:25:36 AM): That was probably a one-shot.

Dikiyoba (2:25:37 AM): I'm going to start doing what Arancaytar did and rolling a die with one side whenever the situation needs livening up.

Sarachim (2:25:52 AM): Not only was it a one-shot, but John's uncanny success is infuriating.

Ephesos (2:25:59 AM): I rolled a d20 to see if the hat was lost, and it came up 20. Go figure.

Ephesos (2:26:04 AM): I listened to the dice.

Nioca (2:26:08 AM): Speak for yourself, I found John utterly failing to place a hat anywhere near the enemy hilarious.

Nioca (2:26:42 AM): Also, it's like he has it in for Lindy.

Ephesos (2:26:59 AM): Now that was just awful luck on the d6.

Nioca (2:27:31 AM): Yeah, but how many of his failures wind up coming down on Lindy?

Nioca (2:27:38 AM): Far as I can remember, it's a lot.

Ephesos (2:27:42 AM): I have not looked.

Ephesos (2:28:02 AM): (I must disappear to fix laundry again.)

Nioca (2:28:15 AM): Ah. Well, I probably need to go too.

Nioca (2:28:19 AM): Bye!

Ephesos (2:28:22 AM): Bye.

Dikiyoba (2:28:27 AM): "Laundry! Stop breaking!"

Ephesos (2:28:27 AM): Thanks for coming, all.

Dikiyoba (2:28:29 AM): Bye

Nioca (2:28:32 AM): (Also, I'm posting the end part of the log, if nobody minds.)

Sarachim (2:28:45 AM): I don't mind.

Sarachim (2:28:50 AM): I should go, too. I need sleep.

Dikiyoba (2:28:55 AM): Bye to you too.

Sarachim (2:29:05 AM): 'Night

(2:29:07 AM) Sarachim has left the room.

[Dintiradan]

I stopped reading after the first three lines.

[Nioca]

Okay, perhaps I should have started it at the line "End Session". Oops.

[Ephesos]

Yeeeah... the end of session banter isn't always the most post-worthy material. Though I am tempted to wager on which direction Etris will faint next.

[Aran]

Okay, this update is for the level I gained during the side session. I haven't decided how to spend yesterday's level yet.

 

Surprising everyone, Temmyn has picked up a cantrip for healing. Combined with the INT bonus, it's not bad.

 

(On that note, maybe I'll boost INT for Level 5, but I'm not sure.)

 

Quote:

Character Sheet

 

Name: Temmyn C. Backus

Profession: Tinker

Level: 4

Alignment: Introverted-Naive

 

Attributes

 

STR: 2

DEX: 3

INT: 5

 

Hitpoints: 10/16 (L2 +2, L3 +2, L4 +2)

Speed: 5

Stamina: 10/10

 

Skills

 

Perception: 2

Artifice: 4

Martial (Wrench): 3 (L2 +1)

Magic (Evocation): 3 (L3 +1)

Magic (Divination): 3 (L2 +1, L3 +1)

Magic (Healing): 1 (L4 +1)

 

Inventory:

 

- Two wrenches

- A toolbag

- A hammer

- A sword

- A mechanical mouse (yay useless)

- A hand full of shark teeth

- A healing potion

- A hat (his own, not one of John's)

- Fairly sure I have a gravity torch by virtue of picking one up and never explicitly getting rid of it. Do I?

- A metal water bottle

- Possibly sausages, a sandwich and a jar of pickles. Haven't kept track.

 

- I might have forgotten something.

 

(Also, Temmyn's metal detection is an active, directed divination, which is why he doesn't get interference from the stuff he's carrying.)

 

((Damn. Need to think of something foolhardy yet survivable to finally earn a perk next time.))

[Balladeer]

My level up isn't as exciting as Etris' but I figured it fit well with the experience and knowledge she was gaining about the portal.

 

Click to reveal..

Stamina 5/10

HP 14/14 (+1)

 

Strength: 1

Dexterity: 2

Intelligence: 8 (+1)

 

Skills:

-Magic (Healing Arts): 8

-Religion: 2

-Nature: 3

-First Aid: 3

 

Perk Reward: "Glimpse of Infinity" - can detect portals (should become aware at beginning of next session) and sees cool things when rolling a natural 20. This gives her a small bonus on her next roll.

 

Cool Thing: Has a beautiful singing voice.

Items: Light staff

Small pack

1 empty glass bottle

1 bottle of water

Some soggy food

A few bandages

Door shield

Magical book that glows when exposed to portal energy or dark energy in general. Can help when trying to manage it.

1 copper

 

I think that's everything at least.

[Ephesos]

Awesome, awesome.

 

Aran, Temmyn's HP should be 10/16 in that, taking into account all the damage he took in the final encounter.

[Nioca]

EDIT: Nevermind. *facepalm*

[Aran]

10/16? Huh; that's what he was at when I left; did he take more and get healed in the meantime. Also, what's his stamina?

[Ephesos]

I've got him at 5 Stamina.

 

Also, the log of session #8 is up! Click here for awesomeness! Beware, it is 56 pages long, surpassed only by the first session's total of 70 pages.

 

Now, the quotes. There are a lot:

Click to reveal..

• The Wise Man: "Jareth, Jareth... funny fellow. Heartbroken, withdrawn."
• The Hat: "Suckers."
• John: "That guy had NO taste in hats."
• Kaval: "Ow, my soul hurts."
• Temmyn: "Where might our doom be located at?"
• Jareth: "Enough! I have had enough of your sniveling and whining! I have far more important work to do. For ceaselessly bothering me, I banish you to the Bog of Eternal Stench!"
• Lindy: "Oh," *gag* "It's not..." *gag* "...that bad."
• Etris: "HURRY UP! WE'RE BEING FOLLOWED!"
• DM: (brb, giant spider)
• Thuja: "We find a portal and it probably leads straight to Hell. Figures."
• Conall: I'll twiddle my beard and curse my lack of ranged weapon.
• Hoggle: "Jareth thinks he can find a cure-all for the problem. And he's letting things get out of control down here. And all across the maze."

 

Also, the calendar for Session #9 is up! Think about it, we've done EIGHT sessions!

 

Last, the following characters still need to level up:

-Temmyn

-Conall

[Duck in a Top Hat]

Thanks for organizing this, Ephesos, I've had a lot of fun.

 

Here's John at level 5:

 

Click to reveal..

Name: John (Duck) - Level 5

Occupation: Hat Salesman

Race: Human

Alignment: Greedy

 

Strength: 2

Dexterity: 4

Intelligence: 5

HP: 17 (10)

Stamina: 5

 

Martial (Razor-rimmed throwing hat): 3

Bluff: 4

Diplomacy: 4

Thievery: 3

 

Items:

-5 razor-rimmed throwing hats

-Fish-hat

-Bronze breastplate

-Torch

-Goblin shortsword

 

Perks:

-Reckless Abandon - +1 to all rolls when bloodied.

 

I had a lot of fun with thievery last night so I thought I'd invest some in it.

 

Edit: And I put my dates in the calendar.

[Aran]

Level 5, yay!

 

(Also, I might have to change alignment to Introverted-Sarcastic eventually.)

 

Quote:

Character Sheet

 

Name: Temmyn C. Backus

Profession: Tinker

Level: 5

Alignment: Introverted-Naive

 

Attributes

 

STR: 2

DEX: 3

INT: 6 (L5 +1)

 

Hitpoints: 12/18 (L2 +2, L3 +2, L4 +2, L5 +2)

Speed: 5

Stamina: 5/10

 

Skills

 

Perception: 2

Artifice: 4

Martial (Wrench): 3 (L2 +1)

Magic (Evocation): 3 (L3 +1)

Magic (Divination): 3 (L2 +1, L3 +1)

Magic (Healing): 1 (L4 +1)

 

Inventory:

 

- Two wrenches

- A toolbag

- A hammer

- A sword

- A mechanical mouse (yay useless)

- A hand full of shark teeth

- A healing potion

- A hat (his own, not one of John's)

- A torch that burns up-side down

- A metal water bottle

- Possibly sausages, a sandwich and a jar of pickles.

[Nioca]

Hey, now you're as intelligent as Etris!

 

Also, that's a very large inventory. But I thought it was a jar of preserves, not pickles?

 

EDIT: Just occurred to me. It's a Jar of Pickle Preserves, isn't it?

[Aran]

Quote:

Hey, now you're as intelligent as Etris!

... thanks, I feel very intelligent now.

Edit: Preserves, yes. I was thinking of pickled food, not necessarily pickles. And it doesn't need to be pickled, it might just be boiled and canned.

[Ephesos]

EDIT: Disregard the time.

 

Um... so. As the campaign hurtles towards its epic conclusion, it's becoming more important to have as many party members present at once as possible. Thus, scheduling is becoming a slight problem. (Again, next campaign will NOT have 7 people in one party)

 

So, as much as this puts pressure on me, the next session is (not) TOMORROW, Saturday November 14th, 5PM CST. I do not want to make Aran miss another session.

 

Also, since the world I'm building for the next campaign is still pretty sparse, this is what's going to happen. Next Tuesday (November 17th) at 5PM CST, there will be a chat about what people want from that world, and anyone who is interested in participating can contribute. So if you'd like to get in on the next campaign (which, again, won't start until mid-/late-December or early January), you should be there.

 

Lastly, players in Labyrinth should start thinking about what they would like to have happen to their characters when the campaign ends. Assuming everyone lives, of course.

[Nioca]

Holy crap! I need to get to work on that recap!

 

Also, I'll be there for the world building. This has been a lot of fun, and I'd love to actually contribute to a campaign.

[Aran]

Quote:

So, as much as this puts pressure on me, the next session is TOMORROW, Saturday November 14th, 5PM CST. I do not want to make Aran miss another session.

Thank you so, so much for putting up with it, and sorry for the inconvenience.

[Lilith]

Originally Posted By: Ephesos

Also, since the world I'm building for the next campaign is still pretty sparse, this is what's going to happen. Next Tuesday (November 17th) at 5PM CST, there will be a chat about what people want from that world, and anyone who is interested in participating can contribute. So if you'd like to get in on the next campaign (which, again, won't start until mid-/late-December or early January), you should be there.

Aw man, 5 pm Tuesday your time is 10 am Wednesday my time, and I have to work. Can we try to start the chat after Saturday's session?

[Ephesos]

Originally Posted By: Thuryl

Aw man, 5 pm Tuesday your time is 10 am Wednesday my time, and I have to work. Can we try to start the chat after Saturday's session?

This works too. Like I said, it's a work in progress.

Man, I've got stuff to do...

[Sudanna]

If Nalyd's on AIM, invite him to the worldbuilding.

[Balladeer]

As much as I hate to miss a session, Hubby has planned a family outing for tomorrow that I was unaware of when I signed up on the calendar. If there is a spectator who is planning to attend that would like to take over as Lindy, I think the whole party would be grateful.

[Ephesos]

*facepalm*

 

...I tried. I swear, I tried. If people want to bail on tomorrow, that is an option, and we can move it to another time.

[nikki.]

I'll also be missing from tomorrow night's session, as I have been volunteered to work from 21:30 Saturday til 6:00 Sunday. Sorry. Feel free to let anybody play Conall.

 

I'll be there for the world-building chat though, if it goes ahead on Tuesday.

 

Also: Level up!

 

Click to reveal..

Name: Conall Strongarm - Level 5

Race: Human

Occupation: Fighter

 

Strength: 6

Dexterity: 3

Intelligence: 1

HP: 23/34 (+6)

 

Martial (Club): 5

Intimidate: 3 (+1)

Nature: 4

First Aid: 1

Berserk!: 2 (+1)

 

Items:

-Long metal bar

-Leather whip (off-hand).

-A bearskin loincloth.

-A crude dagger

-Shiny, orbiting trinket

[Ephesos]

This puts Conall at 23/34 HP, for the record.

 

And screw it. No session tomorrow. I'll get back to you on when the next one is. GAH.

 

EDIT: And with regards to the world-building, I'll just be idling in the AIM room spidwebRP on and off. Drop by if you want.

[Sarachim]

If it helps, I can do Sunday.

[Ephesos]

Sunday, November 15th?

 

Sorry, but now somebody has to miss. The schedules do not overlap at any one point for all 7 party members.

 

With regards to the final session (not this one), I would very much like it if everyone can make it, so everyone can get the proper closure for their characters. So the calendar for that one will go up very very soon... at the latest, by the end of session #9.

 

EDIT: Oh hey, I got sniped. That actually makes it so everyone can be there. Huzzah!

[Duck in a Top Hat]

Is it just me, or has Sunday, November 8th happened already?

[Ephesos]

*headdesk*

 

...did I mention it's been a rough few weeks?

[Aran]

I'm working as fast as I can - if I can manage to finish the homework in two of my subjects before Tuesday, I'll be able to play on that day. Unfortunately, both of them are pretty nasty...

[Ephesos]

If we go ahead with the session tomorrow, Tuesday becomes incredibly unlikely.

[Ephesos]

Wow, I should be sleeping. Just popping in to say two things. First, session #9 is today. Second, I have perks for the last characters without them (Conall and Temmyn):

 

For Conall:

 

Momentum - Whenever you land a successful melee attack, your defense is increased by 1 until your next turn. This bonus stacks to a maximum of 2.

 

For Temmyn:

 

Calm Under Pressure - You gain a +3 to all skill checks during combat.

[Aran]

Quote:

Calm Under Pressure - You gain a +3 to all skill checks during combat.

WOAH. That is pretty much awesome sauce in a bottle.

Also, it's good that I peeked in here again, because I totally overlooked the fact that you actually stuck with the Sunday schedule. I'll be there.

[nikki.]

I have just this minute (well, 30 minutes ago) found out that I may be late. Go ahead and start without me, because if I do have to go out I'll probably miss the first hour. Stupid sister, having a busier social calender than me.

 

I will definitely be back for the rest of the session though, so if somebody would be good enough to summarise for me when I return, that'd be awesome.

 

Also, E: Great perk! I have a question about my Berserk! skill though - it's level 2 now so is that just an increased length?

[Dantius]

Originally Posted By: Ephesos

Calm Under Pressure - You gain a +3 to all skill checks during combat.

Broken much?

[Nioca]

I think it doesn't apply to combat checks; basically, he gets to Artifice and such during combat.

[nikki.]

Yeah, it's skill checks, not to-hit/dodge checks.

[Dantius]

Oh. My bad. And now, returning to you regularly scheduled RP.

[Aran]

Session is now starting.

[Ephesos]

Originally Posted By: child of the moon

I have a question about my Berserk! skill though - it's level 2 now so is that just an increased length?

Eh, we'll try that for now.