Grrl Power #882 – The slippery arm of the law
Just be thankful it’s freshly summoned lube.
Sydney’s not actually correct about it being a cantrip. It’s like the level 6 version of “Lube.” Honestly I feel bad for whoever has to clean up after this fight. That stuff does not wash off easily, and the duration is about 500 hours. Because succubi wildly overestimate every other races’ endurance.
Dabbler is one of those adventurers who knows that in a universe of infinite possibilities, it doesn’t matter how many guns you have, or grenades or cool gadgets. They’re tough to use if you can’t stand. While the average merc or adventurer has good traction, it takes exceptional traction to resist a spell like that. And the ones who are prepared for that eventuality might not be ready for the web spell, and the ones ready for that might not be ready for the insect swarm spell.
Don’t get me wrong, Dabbler is a bullets and swords kind of gal most of the time, but she knows it’s the oddball attack that gets the job done.
Anyone have any unusual takedown stories from your tabletop games? I was in a D&D party once that wound up stripped of all their equipment and facing off against a bunch of vampires. The problem being that vampires in D&D can’t be hurt unless you use magical weapons on them. A friend of mine playing a barbarian with 18/100 strength and 3 intelligence (I watched him roll the character up – he had the craziest dice karma) logiced that vampires can’t be hurt by non-magical weapons… because they’re magic. So, one successful grapple check later and our barbarian was beating one vampire to death with another. If vampires can hurt each other in a fight, they can certainly hurt each other if one of them is being used as a maul.
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Oooh… STORY TIME!
Was in a ‘Teenage Supers’ game. Basically, low point level. I was playing ‘Zombie Kid’. Not actually a zombie, but built with high defenses, built with the needless modifier ‘no visible effect’ and damage absorbtion feeding into his Presence. Think of it as a slow Healing Factor. You can blow chunks off him, but he just. keeps. coming. Also some moderate strength and endurance, since he can push himself harder. Can’t lift a car, but can certainly flip one over.
We were chasing a mentalist, a teenager who had also just come into her powers, and was using it to have fun. We spread out into the mall to find her, but she got spooked and ran. Mine was the only character who could make it to the parking garage in time. She’s peeling out, so I play speedbump. *whump*
This freaks her out. While some of her pranks have had some bad consequences, she hasn’t really been trying to hurt anyone, you know? Now here she has someone who is apparently horrifically injured under her car… So she grabs him by the ankles (gee, nice going, I *know* my spine is broken…) and tosses him into the passenger seat, frantically punching up directions to the hospital on her GPS. My plan is to try and subdue her when she’s not expecting it, but not while she’s driving, that would be dangerous.
By this time, one of the others has managed to reach the garage. He has only one ability at that range, but it’s a fin one: mechanical jinx. Dice are rolled, the result? ‘Stuck Accelerator’.
Now, she’s driving like a bat out of hell anyway, my character deliberately coughing up blood for effect, so she doesn’t notice until she’s already going over a hundred.
Oh hey look, a wall up ahead.
It is at this point we learn something new about our little mentalist: she is also a teleporter. She *pop!*s out of the driver’s seat. My character has only one action to try and get the emergency brake to work…
The lovely brand new Camero hits the wall at about 120 mph. It is *tinfoiled*. My character was NOT wearing a seatbelt, and actually takes enough damage to injure him.
She *pop!*s back and absolutely freaks out. My character is at half health, but looks much, *much* worse. He’s stunned, and can’t fake death, so when he groans in pain, she realizes that he’s not dead yet. She does the only thing she can think of…
Mental Command: >>DON’T DIE!!<< Well, he hadn't planned to… wait.
His eyes snap open and he gives a heaving gasp, sitting bolt upright, bones scraping and fluids splurting. Using his strength, he wrenches what's left of the door off what's left of the car and steps out.
"I have … to get back … to class …"
Lurching down the street, he ignores the girl behind him as she completely loses her grip on her sanity muffin and runs shrieking. She critically failed her fright check, with the result being she developed a fear of using her powers ever again. Mission accomplished.
A spectacular use of a completely passive ability.
Oh, and as your Vampire story goes, in another game I had a large Brick character pull a Hulk and use Ronan the Accuser as a club to beat his minions with. Very amusing.
Our party of pirates were being chased by the BBEG’s ship. They were faster, so our wizard tried to slow them down by creating an illusory reef. (Reusing the GM’s tricks). When that didn’t work because the enemy saw us pass through it, my rogue asked the wizard if he could do that again.
The Wizard said he could, but what’s the point? At this point my rogue pulls out the immovable rod from near the start of the adventure. Our second illusory reef had a very real immovable rod in it, which went lengthwise through the enemy ship’s keel. We came back later to rescue survivors and loot the sunken wreck.
Mine is simple: In the game GeneFunk, using a drug (read potion) that removes poison gives you a level of exhaustion (which is functionally the same as the poisoned status, except you DON’T DIE) with no save of any kind. So we loaded our little stealth assassin done with vials of this stuff, and send him in to ‘un-poison’ every BBEG we find. Makes the combat monsters a little less monstery.
I wonder if it works similar to a little magic gizmo in GURPS Fantasy.
You see, sometimes while crafting a Powerstone, you will get a particular failure. What you get is a sovereign remedy for all forms of poisoning. Very effective, even a casual touch will activate it’s power!
A Purge Stone will cause your body to expel *everything*. Vomit, urine, feces, sweat, tears, *everything*. For an HOUR.
This gives a very nice +8 on your poison check, but leaves the recipient utterly exhausted.
My character kept one in his money pouch to defend against pickpockets. “Ooh, what’s thi- OH CRAP!”
playing in a shadowrun game and for a run i tossed 2 stun granades inside a room,, but with the rules about shockwaes and walls, and it beeing a rather small room,, the stun damage ended up killing 3 out of 4 guards because of echo
Ahh, yeah. That’s the basis for a NASTY weapon called the Chunky Salsa Grenade.
Take an ordinary frag grenade, inscribe with runes of Force Wall (these are *expensive*, so only use on expensive targets). Activate, throw at your opponent. The force wall goes up, trapping them in a cylinder of force before the grenade goes off. Due to the explosion reflection rules, they wind up taking massive amount of damage. Due to the open top of the cylinder, it rains chunky salsa. Ew.
I would call that a party-popper. Used for popping unwelcome parties.
An excellent balance to that sort of play style is the corporations have an excellent reason to go gunning for you if you keep murdering all their people. A certain amount of loss to runners is built into the budget the same way a store knows it is going to lose a certain amount to shoplifters. But if you keep hitting the same corps over and over again or do a lot of excessive damage then you move from being just another line item in the budget to a priority.
IIRC the main exception to this is the corporation owned by a dragon. If you steal anything from them you might as well go in guns blazing and take everything not nailed down because he will see you skinned alive for stealing from his treasure horde. You basically just made your career all about running against this one corporation and running away from them between gigs.
Real-world version of said spell: https://www.cnet.com/news/hagfish-spill-oregon-highway-101-slime-eels/
(Probably not as slippery, but also very hard to wash)
I was playing a cleric that I intended as the party healer, but ended up being the party tank. One encounter I was being peppered with arrows from a small castle, they couldn’t HURT me but they were hitting me and being irritating (role playing them beating my dodge AC but not my armor AC). I didn’t have any ranged weapons but had to do something.
So I grabbed a dropped shield off the ground and threw it. And killed one of the archers. Didn’t knock him off the wall, outright killed him from the impact. The rest left me alone after that.
Real?
You’ve nukes?!
Sydneeey! Go up and shield us from the nukes.
Anvil absorb their blast.
With Us I mean NYC
Anvil can absorb kinetic energy (possibly an unlimited amount?), but not heat and radiation.
Correct, I mostly wanted to reduce the damage, but you are right Heathwave and Achilles should help too and Dabbler should contribute her radiation eater.
RPG memories from an old timer :
1) D&D Red Box, back when Elf was a character class, we were all level 1 characters, I played a cleric … we took a very wrong turn in a haunted tower, went to the basement instead of up, found a sarcophagus. Bad Idea #2, we open the sarcophagus. Out comes the Vampire that was supposed to be the Final Boss. Having no silver or magical weapons, we could not harm him. But then I noticed that my “Bless” spell, when cast on a metal object, made said object magical for 1D4 hours.
Our warrior had a wooden club and shield, the magic user a staff, and my cleric had no weapons. The only armour in the group was leather.
But we had a metal lantern that I bought instead of torches to be able to put it down while fighting.
One Bless on the lantern and we bludgonned the Vampire to death with our light source.
2) AD&D Second Edition, I’m running a “discovery game” at a youth association. Bored teens, level 3 premade player characters. I decide to add low level magic items, a +1 sword for the fighter, a full bag of healing potions for the cleric, smoke bombs for the Rogue, and a Wand of Frost with one charge left and a scroll of Fireball for the mage.
The scenario was escorting a caravan from Supply Depot A to Market B with random encounters in a hilly/mountainous region.
I decide to add flavour by adding a legend about a cavern in the mountains full of trolls.
Bored teens not knowing what an AD&D2 Troll is decide to check the cavern, leaving the caravan unattended.
They find an ominous cave, dark and dripping, at the foot of a huge mountain.
And the mage said “I use the last charge of the Wand of Frost on the roof of the cavern, then the scroll of Fireball on the same spot.” Quick bit of thinking …
The girl playing that mage had a physics exam that morning : cold contracts the stone, heat expands it, contraction + dilatation in a very short time = stone shatters. With mathematical proofs and computations of area to boot.
Physics won. Cavern roof collapsed, sealing the Troll Tribe forever, lots of XP awarded.
3) And last, I was just an observer that time : a party of high-level characters are invited to a feast in their honour by the local King. Two conditions : formal wear and no weapons.
A huge oak table is set up for 12 people, everyone enjoys the meal.
Then BAM, the windows shatter and a dozen assassins attack the King !
The Fighter calmy states “My Girdle of Frost Giant Strenght is very ornate and part of my formal attire, I simply grab the huge oaken table and squash the assassins with it”. With a weapon 4 meters wide by 16 meters long, one swing did the deed.
He so loved that table that he had a handle added to it, had it enchanted to +3, and had a scabbard of holding made specifically for it !
Imagine a Knight charging on horseback waving a huge honking banquet table around …
Oh, that’s hilarious! I love random spells like that. My DM was so annoyed when I discovered the Nymphology Handbook. For those who aren’t familiar, it’s a sort of semi-gag book that covers blue magic. All the spells are sex-based in some way. But, some of them are really useful! I used the lube spell to trip numerous opponents, and there was another one called Speedy Undress that basically stripped your opponent of all clothes AND ARMOUR unless they managed to pass a reflex check.
I bet Dabbler gets a lot of use out of that one, too. LOL.
i know the feeling, many of my DM hated me playing spellcasters because i prefered effect spells over damage spells
in one game of planescape i managed to save the whole party from a hijacked gate spell that left us in a layer of the abyss surounded by a literal army of tanari.
while the balor in the army was beeing all villain like and monologuing, i checked my spell list and found a neat little spell called fire ring, i know that tanari are imuned to fire so when i began cvasting they laughed but the spell had a secondary effect of hypnotising all enemies who saw the ring.
with only the balor saving succesfully,, i turned all nearby demon agaisnt the rest of the army giving us time to cast a dimensional gate to get out.
in the end the dm used the dream card once he realised just how much xp ”defeating” the encounter would give us!
Haven’t played enough DnD to have too many great takedown stories. Most of the stories are more just “DM tries to guide the team into a proper course of action based on the world he set up, but the players had no real reason to logically *assume* the situations he was presenting.” Like he made some super overleveled carniverous plant thing be in our way, but it would sleep at night and we could just sneak by.
BUT, the way he tried to ‘guide us’ into taking that action was… well it was a while ago so I dont’ remember exactly how he tried to get us to do that, but he went about it very wrongly, and accidentally encouraged us to ‘wait until daytime’ instead of continuing down some scary path with a ‘super dangerous presence’ ahead at night.
My most fun story actually came from a big (as in lots of players) game of Munchkin. Specifically Munchkin-Fu. Some random fight ended up getting EVERY player involved, like a full commitment involved. Of note:
1) It was near the end of the game, and nearly every player had like full sets of gear built up. With some fun combos like someone who was allowed two ‘styles’ and mixed turtle fu, for added armor bonus, and bull-fu (I might have some of these names wrong, it was a while ago), for extra helm bonus (a headfirst charge). So he “charged super slowly at people for a super effective attack”. Everyone also had tons of consumables available.
2) This battle WASN’T a game winning battle, so it wasn’t everyone ganging up on someone who would win if they completed the battle.
3) After enough players got involved, everyone else just started getting in for the fun of it. It became pretty clear ‘winning the whole thing is not the goal any more, the goal of this game is to make THIS encounter as big and dramatic as possible.’
We ended up jotting down notes of the whole thing at one point, order of cards played, order of teamups, to potentially pen it into some giant battle story. I don’t know if whoever got the notes ever actually did that. But in a nutshell:
Big monster.
Guy can’t beat by himself (without consumables).
Teamup struck for loot privilages.
Other players start using consumables to buff bad guy.
Fighting players start using consumables to debuff bad guy, buf themselves.
Other players bring in wandering monsters (plural, but not all at the same time).
More teamups are struck.
More consumables.
More teamups struck, including from people who had already spent some consumables to buff the bad guys.
Back and forth and back and forth until when pretty much EVERY card that anyone had to be played had been played and the results were about to be concluded with a final “Anyone have anything else to play before it’s final?”
Someone played “But it was just a practice match” which automatically ends the combat with no rewards or ‘bad stuff’ happening.
I don’t think whoever played it even had a reason to play it except that, again, people were just using every card they had for the sake of it.
Wait, wait, wait.
Sydney’s opponent who puked on her shield. Did he/she/they/it surrender or did she break him/her/them/it?
Crimoon
A mate of mine was running a game. One of the party was a wildcard sort of character with attention span issues. Partway into an encounter with a minor NPC, this party member got bored and fireballed the NPC to death. Only… he wasn’t actually a minor NPC; he was secretly the story’s big bad, Andy mate had to do some VERY rapid legwork to come up with something on the fly. He was not a happy bunny.
sounds like the flakypastry D&D story episode http://flakypastry.runningwithpencils.com/comic.php?strip_id=700 – Zintiel’s character hates wizards and kills their important contact, who also happens to be the campaign’s surprise main antagonist.
Okay. I need to get OP’s information, because I have SO MANY STORIES. My 40K game has become a high-level DnD game, from how GOOD the players are.
Okay, so I spend hours planning out this fight. I’m a huge fan of MGS5, so I take this one enemy that was killed by burning to death? And have her come back as a vengeful, Daemonically empowered ghost. She’s angry, she’s pissed, and she’s nigh immortal. Immune to everything but Warp empowered weapons…and water.
So, I design an arena with a giant glass dome, and a rainstorm just outside. Make sure to describe the rainstorm. I even have a secondary bad guy, a big giant Ogryn with a double-handed chainsword, an Eviscerator.
So, the battle starts, the Daemonically enhanced enemy appears, starts dealing unblockable damage to anyone in melee.
I introduce the second enemy, coming up the stairs slowly, revving his chainsword. He gets a sick, demented smile on his face.
Our party tank rolls an intimidate. Crit success. I roll a will save. Crit fail.
…I know. In that moment. What he has to do.
…He takes. A step. Back. Shocked.
On the stairs.
I roll his Athletics check.
Crit fail.
He lands on his chainsword.
…The evil daemonically enhanced ghost who knows nothing but pain…has to pause and wince in sympathy.
A point made by Mochizuki Touya: Some of these spells are pretty useless, but maybe it depends on how they’re used? SLIP a spell that reduces friction in a designated area thus became one of his most used Non-offensive spells in confrontations. Bad guy summoning endless amounts of monsters? Make him slip and hit his head. Dragon pissed off and being a whiny b**ch? Make it fall on it’s @$$ (that wasn’t what killed it). Going up against a Heavenly Beast(gigantic turtle with a large python wrapped around it)? Make it slip on it’s back, then shoot it with a bullet programmed with an endless loopcast of Slip so that as soon as the spell wears off, it casts again… Leen called him evil. The Black Monarch in the manga fired off an energy shot. Concerned for others’ safety nearby, Touya shot it with a bullet enchanted with Accell (a spell that would normally make you move VERY fast) that in this case, turned the poor Turtle and Snake into a stationary Roller Coaster of “PLEASE MAKE IT STOP!!!” In the anime, he only used the endless loopcast of Slip.
Killed a dragon with a shrink spell and a boot. It had taken human form to blackmail the group into doing her bidding, but in the system we use the transform spell gives all the abilities and weaknesses of the form taken. So, enchantress cast Shrink (a level 2 spell), my charlatan cast a circle of light to blind her (level 1 spell) and beastmaster stepped on her.
Just yesterday our group was surprise attacked by three werewolves. Two lucky touch spell rolls later my charlatan had two of them floating in the air flailing wildly.
Heh, I loved chickenizing (transforming) enemies in Dungeon Keeper and the having a minion eat them.
Wait! did Crimoon surrender or get broken? I didn’t miss a comic, did I?
if not, I’m currently incredulous how this will look in an actual comic book format… maybe it’ll be explained, but…
Also, EVERY tool? What does the mass driver do in the boudoir?
Not in the boudoir, but before, when seducing people with her super-powerful guns.
Wait.. Dabblers sword has one of those little things hanging off its pommel that you see as an accessory in japanese school mangas?
Extra points.
In the fight at the restaurant, I believe there’s a close-up of the hilt, with trinket (as Dabbler first draws it).
It’s the most dangerous part of the sword.
Did anyone else notice the not so subtle reference to “Serious Sam” ?
It’s one of the few places one could find a scorpion wielding a machine gun after all … ;-)
Craziest D&D takedown I remember seeing was once during the campaign the DM intended the party to flee as an invading army approached and the wizard used a polymorph spell (in this edition the spell allowed unlimited shape-changing during it’s duration as long as the resulting critter was under a certain hit-dice threshold) to turn into a hawk and scope-out the situation.
“Do I see the enemy general?”
“You see what looks to be a very important-looking person on a hill watching the battle from an elaborate pavillion.”
“Is he wearing a helmet?”
“No.”
“I land on his head.”
“Okay, you land on his head.”
“And I polymorph into a rot-grub.”
“….uh…. so, who want’s pizza?” *sound of DM re-writing half of his campaign.*
Name tag on the right, medals and specialty badges on the left ;)
Arc-SWAT, however, as a completely different org. may have completely different dress regs.
Maybe not the oddest or most intricately planned use of a spell in combat but…
I had a cleric once who, out of desperation in a dragonfight
slapped the dragon in the mouth and cast ‘create water’…
The DM ruled that the resulting steam ‘explosion’ blew the dragon’s head completely off…
He also ruled that flying scales killed the cleric and the rest of the party…
But it was a glorious death and the cleric resides in the Court of his deity to this day :)
I have a few D&D stories (all from the same campaign)
1) At one point, we were facing ropers. For those of you who don’t know, they fight by grappling you with their long tentacles and dragging you to them. My druid wildshaped into a dire bear. Everyone agreed that no matter how well they rolled, they were not going to move me.
2) Ancient precursor race stuck a mcguffin inside the body of a giant scorpion queen. Said giant scorpion queen was rather pissed about this. Our wizard managed to talk her down and then called in a doctor NPC we met a while back to preform open heart surgery, netting us the friendship of the giant scorpion queen.
3) This one is an entrance, but it’s still worth mentioning. We needed to get to the location for the final showdown fast, but it was surrounded by an anti-magic barrier even the gods couldn’t punch or even see through. So instead we were teleported far above it, on the back of a giant snail that shouted it’s name (MR. MERVIN VON CLANKYSHELL!!!) as we descended. We were soon followed by all the allies we made throughout the campaign atop an even larger snail (ROLLIN’ GOLD THEODORE LEVIN McSNAIL-KING!!!). That got everyone’s attention.
i was very close to pushing an orc off a castle roof, however there where multiple orcs on the roof so i elected to instead stack the corpses of the orcs that had occupied the castle at the roof entrance to prevent entering(20 or so corpses is a pretty decent barricade)
I once used “Prestidigitation”, a container of lamp oil, and a torch to kill a dozen juvenile giant spiders and take the mama to half health…before starting combat.
No comment on Hudson’s Aliens speech? Too obvious, maybe?
As that guy was listing stuff off, I tried to fit it to some kind of song parody, but I couldn’t come up with anything…
“Because succubi wildly overestimate every other races’ endurance.”
Maybe it’s not for other races? This could be a fun 21 day holiday.
Bill it as a ‘wellness mental health retreat’ on the companies dime.
In an old Traveler game our GM was inspired by the Buck Rodgers episode with the Vorvone. So he had a vampire infiltrate our ships cargo and thought it would turn into a horror movie hunt through the ship. My engineer blew the vampire into space by opening the cargo deck loading doors, then started the main engines to move us away. At that point another player asked the GM if the vampires flight speed would let it escape the gravity well of the gas giant we had been fuel scooping. The GM was kind of annoyed at how fast we dealt with it.
Hahahahahaha, oh that is awesome.
Who runs a space campaign and doesn’t consider spacing people as a possible outcome ;)
“Get off my ship.”
A long, long time ago playing Advanced Dungeons and Dragons (I said it was a long time ago) our party came across a chute leading to the lower level of a dungeon. The problem was that there was at least one troll in the room the chute led to, so whoever went down the chute was going to have a very bad time. As fire was the only thing that stopped trolls from regenerating our first plan was to Fireball the room but the mage had used his already and we didn’t want to wait around for him to learn it again. We considered making noise to attract the trolls to look up the chute so we could bomb them with flaming oil but we didn’t think that would do enough damage and would make it harder for us to get down there and fight. So we went with Plan C, the Flaming Idiot attack.
We cast Resist Fire on the fighter, doused him in oil, set the oil on fire, and sent him down first. The sudden appearance of a flaming lunatic in the room screaming and hitting them with a sword seemed to disconcert the trolls long enough for the rest of the party to get down there to help finish them off.
“I AM THE DREAD PIRATE ROBERTS! THERE WILL BE NO SURVIVORS!“
“it takes exceptional traction to resist a spell like that”
– Or Hover?
aaah the good old “beat a mother fucker with another mother fucker” gambit.
Every tool in Dabbler’s box has multiple uses, much like Dabbler’s box has had multiple tools in it.
;)
And as every good succubus knows, she should keep as many tools in her box as she can, and to think of new ways to use them whenever possible.
I killed Commander Dante from 40K by chucking tanks at him that my Imperial Knight, with a Thunderstrike Gauntlet, had just killed and used the gauntlets ability. Even with the Knight I wasn’t liking my chances if Dante managed to get into melee range. Because then even that spell “Lube” would be woefully inadequate.
Gah, should’ve mentioned this in the previous post. I’ve got way too many stories of… creative uses of game mechanics in p&p games, but one of my favorite unorthodox methods was with my Dragonborn Sorcerer in Pathfinder. He was immune to fire, and I had a magical robe that was also immune to fire, so sometimes when in melee range I liked to grapple the target in a bear hug while casting Burning Hands. Since he had 18 Strength naturally (yes, extremely unusual for a Sorcerer) it was like getting grabbed by an 8 foot tall bonfire that wouldn’t let go.
My personal best take down comes from way back in AD&D.
A gang of bad guys on horses, about equal in power to the party, was chasing us along a road. I picked a spot where the road went between some trees and some rocks. Then I waited. They came galloping along and I nailed them all with a web spell at head-level.
Their horses ran on without them, leaving them dangling by their heads until they could make a strength check to escape. Then I dumped an ice storm on them.
The rest of the party didn’t really get to contribute.
I was playing an ogre barbarian, who’s weapon was an ironwood tree trunk. In game terms it was a 2d6 two handed warmaul. We were only level four, and had triggered a trap a couple of times trying to figure out a puzzle, and it kept dumping enemies into the room for us to fight. In the end my ogre figured out where the next enemy was going to come from. So lifted his trunk over his head and waited. Door opened, gelatinous cube comes out, and my ogre brings the club down in the hardest power attack that he could. Crit. Cube was splattered in a single hit and the DM was just floored.
We were creeping down a flight of stairs with a door at the bottom. I, the rogue, went first. My friend, the fighter in full plate, went second. Since we were trying to be stealthy we actually had to roll for it and the fighter fumbled his check. Long story short, he fell down the stairs, picked me up as he went down, and bowled over half the guys in the room we were headed to.
Reminds me of a campaign a heard about (wasn’t in it) where the Paladin crit-failed so hard that they won the campaign.
In a Pathfinder Campaign, the party was in a spot of bother. We were hunting a End of the World cult, connected to the 5th Horseman of the Apocalypse, in Absalom. One of the key minions/leadership cadre of the cult was a vampire, who was living openly in Absalom, but wasn’t publicly known as a vampire. We’d spent a few sessions ‘fencing’ with him and his minions, which included taking down one of their bases in a Mage’ Private Sanctum, and a raid on their main local HQ which ended prematurely due to a minor issue involving Purple Worms and a Thassalonian adventurer trap.
By this point, he knew we wanted him dead, and we were turning up at his mansion to stake his arse and take him out of the picture. When we got there, we found his wife (who, IRRC, was an Elf), in a fairly bad way. Being a (mostly) good-aligned party, we took her to the Church of Sarenrae and told the priests what was going on. We got intel (either from a note or his wife) that he was planning to turn the city against us and frame us for everything, using the power of the press.
So, we fought back. We went to the Absalom equivalent of the times, and dropped the whole story on their lap. Gave them sources to verify our claims with, and the whole thing of him being a vampire and a bad person went out. He was already out of the city, but it short-stopped that one quite quickly. There was a bit more kerfuffle, a battle through a extra-dimensional building, and finally we cornered him with the aid of a Djinn, and shattered his frozen body, and then set fire to all the pieces.
I am reminded of something from my brother’s experience. I’ll just quote the DM: “Wield the Dwarf? I’ll allow it.”
Why would a succubus even need lube?
And it’s time for earth to build a space dock that maxima can push into orbit, through which all travel needs to go to check for stuff
Oh, you sweet summer child…
The ‘internet purity test’ is a checklist for some and a repeatable bucketlist for others. Have fun & stay safe!
If you want space building take Sydney and Achilles.
They’re actually equipped for it.
I think there will come a little more than a single orbital checkpoint more like 50 for all countries that can get one into space(including supers).
We had a wizard on the higher side of a gorge, who had things set up so it was almost impossible to shoot with arrows, and there was a 50 foot drop between us, and he was 40 feet above us. I see our fighter doing something on scratch paper and then smiling. He looks at our wizard.
Ranger: “You still have your Decanter of Endless Water, right?”
wizard: “yes.”
Ranger: “Good. Put it on that waterspout mode and point it at him.”
GM: “OK, there’s now a plume of water splashing into the rock just below him.”
Ranger: “I activate my boots of speed, and with my ring of water walking, I charge him running up the stream of water.”
GM: “You bastard.”
And that is how Arik Water-runner earned his name.