OAAAA Recap
9/5/08
Aeton took the loss of his bridge pretty well. After being locked up in jail for two days, he and Fantus got a map of the world from the sea elves. That flamboyant flapjack blood elf pirate offered us a ride to the mainland where we hoped to find the dragon's lair, with a solid lead from the sea elves. Our intrepid heros made a spectacular exit from town on the flying flapjack and were off to sea towards their destination. Then Grandfather Flame came out of the sky and all those pansy pirates abandoned ship, tasty blood elf treats bobbing in the sea for a dragon hankerin for a hunk of blood elf.
BEN: Well, for only three characters to go head to head with Sky was quite something. But the characters played smart and kept their actions tight and well coordinated, and victory was theirs. I'd just like to commend a few highlights, and leave it to the players to provide the summary to their fellow party members:
1.) Aefra taking down Sky with a thrown daenerys dagger...right after the MT Tithe got taken down with a 68 stun hit to the head.
2.) Aetan heaving several goblins into the abyss...or just bashing them into goblin pulp with his hammer and sending the others running in terror.
3.) Aetan diving off a bridge (!), into the abyss, after an unconscious and falling Tithe, catching him in midair with a critical success dex roll, to completely save the situation.
4.) Aefra making a cool illusory wedding band as for Grendel, to seal her marriage to him.
5.) Aetan declaring himself a vassal of Grendel.
6.) Matt prebuying luck to allow him to reroll the second of two 17 failures for a 15- roll, as an instant effect.
7.) Tithe getting dog piled by goblins and fighting his way out.
On account of numbers 1, 3, 4, and 5, but especially #3, the entire group (including Dieter, Gabe, and Nate) are awarded 1 bonus XP.
Additionally: Matt and Ed: I think that your purchased disadvantages came into play last session, so you each get the bonus from that as well.
--Gdaze -- Jeez, seems the group got a hard-on for Grendel. So is the group ever going to run into people we don't bow down and kiss their ass sometimes?
Edmiao I'm going out on a limb here.... no?
BEN: have you met anyone you particularly didn't like where it would have been beneficial to be bellicose towards them? Other than the establishment back on Caminus? Or the knight of flowers? Or the ninja orc?
--Brandon 11:18, 20 October 2008 (MST) I was going to say, though Ben has partially stolen my thunder, that I think we have established a pretty good balance between ass-kissing and ass-kicking:
Some members of Caminus establishment: kissed
Other members of said establishment: tricked/kicked
Bandits: kicked
Gwyndolin: kissed
Dragon: neither (we just ran and ran)
Ape: kicked
Knight of Flowers: kicked
Folks in Carthay: intermittent kissing
Wood Elves: stayed respectfully aloof
Ninja Orc: got kicked, then kicked
Grendel: kissed (literally)
Dragon (second time): I predict a prodigious amount of ass-kissing here
1/9/09
Aefra: Well, yesterday went pretty well, except for you all almost becoming ugly splats on the rocks. Anyone up for planning our approach this time? Any ideas? Should we go find that thiefly guy who has allegedly been in the tower before?
Aetan: If we were to build a bridge from that island to the mainland...
Aefra: Oh... my.... gods. that is such a good idea! why didn't we think of that before? I have another idea, how about Fantus makes flying potions this time and gives them to everyone, just in case. i think you'd all look fabulous with wings.
Fantus: How about we hold off on that one... I don't want to be smacked by the same foce that hit the carpet! Can't you like turn us invisable? Isn't that part of the light, illusion magic you practice?
Tithe: How reasonable/unreasonable were the citizens of the isle? Ideally, I think that we could straightforwardly approach them and tell them of our intentions. They seem to be pious enough folk. I imagine that they would be happy that we were attempting to free their object of worship. Then, we could simply walk in the front door and deal with the rest from there. Assuming, of course, that we haven't ruined our welcome by killing them by the handful. After we enter, things, I imagine, will become interesting. But, we do have resources at our disposal.
Fantus: They shot us with arrows because they claimed we violated some holy rule about flying into the tower, and they think his current "sleeping" is all part of some plan. So although that makes sense to wake him up... they don't seem very interested.
Tithe: Hmmm. If there is some holy rule about flying into the tower, maybe we should walk in.
Aefra: Oh, when did you talk to them Fantus? I just remember us flying around then then they started to shoot arrows at us, then there were fisticuffs and then fleeing.
Fantus: Its on the page with info on them... (IE in my book I guess...)
--Brandon 21:11, 7 January 2009 (MST) Ummm, I don't see that information anywhere, either in the Ixymion entry or the Clocktower entry. Indeed, in the Clocktower entry it says that the ceremonial guard IS NOT charged with stopping people from entering the tower. Could you please direct me to the right place?
Fantus: I dunno... I just remember someone saying it... not that they WOULD stop us, just that they think he should be sleeping or something... could be wrong, I'm all for just walking in!
Aefra: Thanks for letting me look in your book, Fantus. let's see... Clocktower. hmm. hmm. oh. hmm. interesting. Hey, it does say that right here, "The western gate ...blah blah blah... is guarded by a single ceremonial guard at all times. The guard is there for show: he/she represents the devotion... blah blah blah..., but they are not charged with preventing the entry of anyone who dares to try and enter." But also, the eastern gate is over a cliff, we could approach it by magic carpet. Perhaps, though, we should just approach the city and appologize for the misunderstanding and announce our intentions. I believe that honesty is always best.
Fantus: I dunno, these people seem like extremists, but perhaps having Galen talk to them would be the best choice as the people here clearly respect his God as well. But again, fine by me. When we went in it was dark, so we had that to our advantage... wait was it dark? I forget... Hey don't read too much in that book you'll get funny ideas...
Speaking of which, have you master invisability yet?
Aefra: I like your book, it's nice. I have been thinking about that, i think i can make light bend around myself and then out the other side, kind of like a bridge through myself that only light can travel, you know what i mean? but i have to think more and practice it before i can use it on someone else. cus making a bridge through yourself is easier than making a bridge through someone else.
Tithe I agree with Aefra; honesty is required and we can fly in the eastern gate if they are inclined to bar our entry after that. Aefra has almost always been right in the past. I don't approve, however, of her sudden talk about bridges. We already have enough bridge-based nonsense to contend with as it is. Lastly, and most importantly, I think that we might want to plan more carefully about what how we are going to deal with the fiendishly complicated and dangerous castle exploration, which likely will require more effort than just getting inside.
Aetan - The solutions to these problems are as clear as a forest stream, but apparently only Aefra and myself see them.
I am not certain honesty will help; I believe the residents of that island believe us guilty of trespass and sacrilege. Nonetheless, if I must bash a few of them to illustrate the point, I will do so.
Fantus: Have you though of investing in a cod piece by the way Aetan? That looked nasty painful. I say we do it there way, if it fails and we have to cleave our way through 100's of guards, so be it.
That said I think we should let our good friend... whats his face, get out of here. I do not like endangering him anymore then we have. I also 2nd the too much bridge talk.
12/12/08
--Brandon 15:05, 15 December 2008 (MST) Can I get a recap of last session? Thanks.
Gabe: We all almost died... no really, WE ALL ALMOST DIED.
So I'm gonna give you a quick re-cap with this guy and that guy, some other person can re-write it.
We spent a day in the city of pompus jerk-offs doing some research. Met with the high wizard, he said he can't do Grundell's "task" just yet because of his important research. The next day we flew off on the carpet again.
We got to the tower pretty quick, it is massive. We decided that the best plan would be to fly into a window at the top, expect perhaps some arrows or such from defenders.
Instead the entire carpet was hit with the force of a dragon's strike and we all went flying into the air, we were really high up (enough to take around 30D6 of damage). We had nine turns.
Ah... for the rest I think I should post with names of characters as it is epic.
Edmiao after we began the incident, i was looking at the falling rules, and i think we actually had 9 segments (not 9 phases) to act. i kept it to myself in the interest of not being the sole survivor of the session (as the only character with wings). although that would have been interesting, Aefra could have probably saved one person, who to pick?
Gabe: Fantus would have insisted you save Galen. And offer many apologies to the two people who helped us get there...
Fantus has potions and a nasty claw, Aetan has a nice big club, but Galen can bring down the power of a God. When it comes time for punishment of those who did this, I think he would be of great use... plus a healer around when we save her is good too! And if any of us have a chance at making the people in the Kingdom beleive us it is Galen. (not saying Galen is the best in the group, in fact as a team we are pretty awesome, just saying that the most help back in our hometown will be Galen, but also Fantus has seen Galen's powers, healing, protecting us from heat and cold... Fantus figures that if he can keep most of us fighting he is very important)
Left Tithe out cuz he was lagging.
BEN: hah, 9 phases...you guys would have been pancakes. Well, board's a-play, and I'm quite pleased with how things turned out from a "storytelling" perspective...not to mention that killing ALL the players at one stroke is pretty drastic...although I guess it would have only been two. Damn, talk about a brutal session if that's how it'd gone...
