Count to INFINITY!
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Re: Count to INFINITY!
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If my wish is to be granted, please bring me to you right now.
If life can be repeated, I'll go to you many times over
There's nothing else that I want,
Nothing else is more important than you.
If life can be repeated, I'll go to you many times over
There's nothing else that I want,
Nothing else is more important than you.
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Jaegar
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Re: Count to INFINITY!
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lol I'm tempted to do my wall of text post for the week based on the group leader election in the game with Leena. It would be a great political commentary... if I could write political commentary >.< (it's between the soldier, the catgirl, and the grim reaper)
I promised a bunch of other stuff so I think I'll write about that because I know I can do that. Anyway, after the disagreement within the party one player sat there and made an all new character while the other two played. After adding more traps to their junkyard and hiring someone to train guard animals. They went to check out a point marked on a map about an hour from town. When they got there they immediately determined they needed to check behind the waterfall. Fortunately, I had a plan to spice things up, so when they left the forest something flew overhead. They ran away then proceeded to watch a 40' tall sparrow use the waterfall as a birdbath. It tried to eat the tank when it noticed him but they devised a plan to get past it and into the dungeon. "The sneaky guy shoots it with a shotgun till it gets irritated then runs into the trees where it can't eat him." In the end it worked. The bird was also a convenient way to introduce the new character when my third player was ready. "You hear screams coming from the stairs. You get there in time to see an Elf tumble down the stairs then lay at the bottom muttering something about an uncooperative sparrow."
My next favorite was the skeletons. I'd laid out a lot of the encounters like a horror scene. In one, the players are investigating a group of small rooms. One of them had a lifeless skeleton slumped in the corner of the room and many bones scattered around the rest of the room. The plan was for the players to poke around then leave the room. The scattered bones would form into skeletons so next time the players passed the room they'd see only the one skeleton in the corner and then they'd be ambushed by the three animate skeletons.
Well, the first thing they did was yell "Undead!" and smash the complete skeleton's head. The druid then took all the leg bones because he's creepy like that and crafts bone weapons. O.o... Ohhhhhh kay. The end result was a rather silly battle with three legless skeletons XD
It's also amusing to see them experiment with the items they find. Technological items are artifacts in my world (can't be made with current knowledge, highly valuable, and usually powerful). The problem is that some of it's broken, some of it's useless, and none of it is explained. They came up with all kinds of interesting ways to test things. They tried to use a shield generator to unlock a door, they pressed every button on a console to figure out what it did (first they were pressing them one by one and taking cover every time, but eventually someone got reckless and pressed them all at once). It was impossibly amusing overall. I had to bite my tongue to avoid laughing when they were seriously trying to figure out what these thing were. I especially enjoyed the personal shield generator. They were pressing buttons randomly trying to open it (they found it after a locked door that required a specialized key). Every time I randomly rolled to see if they turned it on and set it properly. The first person to turn it on was the ratman, and it made all his hair stand on end. Eventually they got tired of pressing buttons and decided to shoot it. Fortunately it was on at the time. When the player shot it and I told him "the thing didn't twitch at all, the air in front of it just kind of rippled." He got the most puzzled look on his face for a second then sprinted up to it and screamed (in and out of character XD) "Here! Hold this and let me shoot at you! I'll use my weakest gun and heal you if you get hurt!" Eventually someone agreed and they determined that it does in fact severely hinder bullets (and nobody was injured either!) The rat took it (despite the fact that it made him look hilarious). The druid wanted to test his bow against it , but then it turned itself off as evidenced by the rat's fur went back to normal so they decided against it.
I want to elaborate on the mimic, but that would make this post absurdly long so I'll just say we had a mimic. It went well (relatively). They were thinking "Noooo! Don't push the button or the door will open and whatever's on the other side will kill us/explode/do horrible things". But then somebody pressed the big shiny button and the console tried to eat them XD it was rofl funny.
Ahh! The NPC. I introduced an NPC this game. It's a pseudodragon who was trapped in a seal in the dungeon. To give you an idea of what a pseudodragon is, take a dragon's body and make it the size of a housecat. Remove it's ability to breathe fire but give it a poisonous stinger on it's tail, then combine the personality of a housecat with the personality of a dragon. So you end up with a sentient, telepathic, purring dragon that likes attention, food, and shiny things (all double effect because it's a cat and a dragon). They are my favorite creatures to DM. They didn't mean to release it, but someone beat it's seal token against the mimic when it was about to eat someone in hopes that it was a demon or something that would kill the mimic (all they knew is that it was a seal of some kind).
lol I'm tempted to do my wall of text post for the week based on the group leader election in the game with Leena. It would be a great political commentary... if I could write political commentary >.< (it's between the soldier, the catgirl, and the grim reaper)
I promised a bunch of other stuff so I think I'll write about that because I know I can do that. Anyway, after the disagreement within the party one player sat there and made an all new character while the other two played. After adding more traps to their junkyard and hiring someone to train guard animals. They went to check out a point marked on a map about an hour from town. When they got there they immediately determined they needed to check behind the waterfall. Fortunately, I had a plan to spice things up, so when they left the forest something flew overhead. They ran away then proceeded to watch a 40' tall sparrow use the waterfall as a birdbath. It tried to eat the tank when it noticed him but they devised a plan to get past it and into the dungeon. "The sneaky guy shoots it with a shotgun till it gets irritated then runs into the trees where it can't eat him." In the end it worked. The bird was also a convenient way to introduce the new character when my third player was ready. "You hear screams coming from the stairs. You get there in time to see an Elf tumble down the stairs then lay at the bottom muttering something about an uncooperative sparrow."
My next favorite was the skeletons. I'd laid out a lot of the encounters like a horror scene. In one, the players are investigating a group of small rooms. One of them had a lifeless skeleton slumped in the corner of the room and many bones scattered around the rest of the room. The plan was for the players to poke around then leave the room. The scattered bones would form into skeletons so next time the players passed the room they'd see only the one skeleton in the corner and then they'd be ambushed by the three animate skeletons.
Well, the first thing they did was yell "Undead!" and smash the complete skeleton's head. The druid then took all the leg bones because he's creepy like that and crafts bone weapons. O.o... Ohhhhhh kay. The end result was a rather silly battle with three legless skeletons XD
It's also amusing to see them experiment with the items they find. Technological items are artifacts in my world (can't be made with current knowledge, highly valuable, and usually powerful). The problem is that some of it's broken, some of it's useless, and none of it is explained. They came up with all kinds of interesting ways to test things. They tried to use a shield generator to unlock a door, they pressed every button on a console to figure out what it did (first they were pressing them one by one and taking cover every time, but eventually someone got reckless and pressed them all at once). It was impossibly amusing overall. I had to bite my tongue to avoid laughing when they were seriously trying to figure out what these thing were. I especially enjoyed the personal shield generator. They were pressing buttons randomly trying to open it (they found it after a locked door that required a specialized key). Every time I randomly rolled to see if they turned it on and set it properly. The first person to turn it on was the ratman, and it made all his hair stand on end. Eventually they got tired of pressing buttons and decided to shoot it. Fortunately it was on at the time. When the player shot it and I told him "the thing didn't twitch at all, the air in front of it just kind of rippled." He got the most puzzled look on his face for a second then sprinted up to it and screamed (in and out of character XD) "Here! Hold this and let me shoot at you! I'll use my weakest gun and heal you if you get hurt!" Eventually someone agreed and they determined that it does in fact severely hinder bullets (and nobody was injured either!) The rat took it (despite the fact that it made him look hilarious). The druid wanted to test his bow against it , but then it turned itself off as evidenced by the rat's fur went back to normal so they decided against it.
I want to elaborate on the mimic, but that would make this post absurdly long so I'll just say we had a mimic. It went well (relatively). They were thinking "Noooo! Don't push the button or the door will open and whatever's on the other side will kill us/explode/do horrible things". But then somebody pressed the big shiny button and the console tried to eat them XD it was rofl funny.
Ahh! The NPC. I introduced an NPC this game. It's a pseudodragon who was trapped in a seal in the dungeon. To give you an idea of what a pseudodragon is, take a dragon's body and make it the size of a housecat. Remove it's ability to breathe fire but give it a poisonous stinger on it's tail, then combine the personality of a housecat with the personality of a dragon. So you end up with a sentient, telepathic, purring dragon that likes attention, food, and shiny things (all double effect because it's a cat and a dragon). They are my favorite creatures to DM. They didn't mean to release it, but someone beat it's seal token against the mimic when it was about to eat someone in hopes that it was a demon or something that would kill the mimic (all they knew is that it was a seal of some kind).
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ascot
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Re: Count to INFINITY!
5171 WOW 
I want a pseudodragon as well -^^- And Jae as a Game Master :3
I want a pseudodragon as well -^^- And Jae as a Game Master :3If my wish is to be granted, please bring me to you right now.
If life can be repeated, I'll go to you many times over
There's nothing else that I want,
Nothing else is more important than you.
If life can be repeated, I'll go to you many times over
There's nothing else that I want,
Nothing else is more important than you.
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Jaegar
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Re: Count to INFINITY!
5173 lol thanks ^^' It was a lot of work to plan all that stuff but I'm glad it all worked out.
Well, there was the poisonous demon in the first encounter that didn't go over so well. I learned not to use high powered poisons in the first major battle of the dungeon. The tank was the only one hit but he ended up going through the entire first level of the dungeon with 7 points of strength damage (out of 16 total strength). Fortunately he's the tank and not primarily a damage dealer.
edit: ahhh Yoon-ninja! O.o
Well, there was the poisonous demon in the first encounter that didn't go over so well. I learned not to use high powered poisons in the first major battle of the dungeon. The tank was the only one hit but he ended up going through the entire first level of the dungeon with 7 points of strength damage (out of 16 total strength). Fortunately he's the tank and not primarily a damage dealer.
edit: ahhh Yoon-ninja! O.o
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Re: Count to INFINITY!
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See? I can be sneaky... sometimes.
See? I can be sneaky... sometimes.
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ascot
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Re: Count to INFINITY!
5178 My team sneaked into a ship. Guys killed some sailors and took their clothes, but since I'm a girl, I had to stay under some sails, which was extremely uncomfortable. My mates brought me some food, but still it was hard to survive that way...
Ascot: Hmmm, maybe I will jump out of the ship and pretend that I'm a shipwrecked person? Then I can be on the ship legally?
GM: Ascot. You're on a ship with men sailors only, who haven't seen a woman since months. You really wanna do it?
Ascot: OK I'm gonna stay here D:
Ascot: Hmmm, maybe I will jump out of the ship and pretend that I'm a shipwrecked person? Then I can be on the ship legally?
GM: Ascot. You're on a ship with men sailors only, who haven't seen a woman since months. You really wanna do it?
Ascot: OK I'm gonna stay here D:
If my wish is to be granted, please bring me to you right now.
If life can be repeated, I'll go to you many times over
There's nothing else that I want,
Nothing else is more important than you.
If life can be repeated, I'll go to you many times over
There's nothing else that I want,
Nothing else is more important than you.
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Jaegar
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Re: Count to INFINITY!
5179 lol that reminds me of one of the first things Leena did. We needed a ship to get somewhere and the only ship in town was out of commission because the crew quit (I don't even remember why anymore). I convinced them that helping us was a good idea then spent most of the 3 day trip hiding. The fat woman who was both the cook, and one of the ships officers didn't like me but the moogle (we have waaaay too many races in this game) took care of her with fuzzy cuteness.
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Jaegar
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Re: Count to INFINITY!
5181 blarg brain is dead but body can't sleep >.<
ah! my tea is ready ^_^ nvm
ah! my tea is ready ^_^ nvm