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Posted on October 10, 2012
The Acts of The Lords of Rannick, LXXIX
…in which an Ankylosaur makes us want to reroll as dinosaurs, Arradin has a costume malfunction and there is a bona fide crazy treasure drop.
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MD20/20 has long been a staple of my roleplaying habits. While my time with the Edinburgh group during Uni was fueled by fried chicken and Boddingtons, in Govan a loaf of bread, a tub of butter and two bottles of MD20/20 went in on a Friday night and didn’t leave on Saturday morning.
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I believe that I started drinking Purple Rain while playing World of Warcraft not solely because MD 20/20 is a great drink, but as an enticement for a Rain of Purple items – gettit?- those most sought after treasure drops other than the legendary-but-I-don’t-play-the-game-enough-to-get-those-Orange-items. Purples, Purpz, Professor Plums, call them what you will, I hoped to call them down on our heads by with the sweet anaesthetic properties of Mogen David’s finest blend of fruity flavours and fortified wine.Â
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Adventure Juice!
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Kerplak, Ron and Arradin engaged it initially, Arradin charging forward, Kerplak shooting one crossbow bolt per round and Ron coming in for support. The Barbed Devil didn’t have a whole lot of luck against Arradin, although he didn’t really need it as an errant slice of her sword rebounded off a wall and destroyed her armour. Striking out at her, the Barbed Devil induced fear in her and sent her fleeing back to the entrance, all dishevelled and with plates of armour dropping off her as she went.
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Tersplink and Albedon arrived, meanwhile, with Albedon frustrated to find this thing had some spell resistance and Tersplink delighted to find that an Ankylosaur fit perfectly in this room. Albedon evoked a Wall of Acid that caught the Hamatula but spared Ron (thoughtful!). As this was happening a door in the south wall burst open and two ogres tried to rush through. The first one charged straight into the Wall of Acid, before Ron swept his legs out from under him in a self sacrificing combo that also laid him out on the floor. It worked, as the extra time in the acid finished off the first ogre and all that open airspace made it no problem for Kerplak to send a bolt through the second ogres’s left eyeball, killing it on the spot. Comedy Pratfall Kung Fu violence!
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The Ankylosaur pretty much kicked ass, thumping the Hamatula once quite hard. The Barbed Devil teleported to the other side of the room where the people were wearing dresses, not three-inch thick scale carapaces. Didn’t matter, after it got one spiky attack in Tersplink stepped beside his cousin and allowed the Ankylosaurus to use its 15′ reach and pummel the devil one more time, this time fatally.
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Is there a version of Mouse Guard, but with Dinosaurs? No? WHY NOT? Let’s Kickstarter that shit.
Get it? Like “Stoned”… like weed, man. Get it?
Basket Of All Kerplak’s Eggs Repeating Crossbow was found.
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Back through to the Invisible Stalker room, with two doors as yet unexplored, they opted for the door on the right which led them into some kind of dark temple room. An altar against one wall had traces of fresh blood sacrifice on it and the blood ran through channels, creating a profane rune on the floor. On the altar was a small pile of shiny, and everyone rushed to see it. The Griffon accidentally set off the pit trap beside the altar but recovered. Peering down into the spike cluttered depths they saw several precious stones and a small weapon. The altar held a bunch of platinum pieces and another healing scroll. Dagfinn summoned an Unseen Servant to go fetch the items at the bottom of the pit. Very good, sir. It brought up the two stones plucked from the remains of some long dead adventurer and the weapon which was completely insane. Will that be all, sir? Then I shall retire for the evening…
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It is a Sai. A +1 Vicious, Shocking, Ki-Focusing, Defending Sai of Disruption. Which makes it a +7 equivalent weapon. Which is nuts. But that’s what we rolled. Ron got it.
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We finished there and it’s probably just as well, because the next roll the party has to make is for a Wandering Monster check and I didn’t like the way those random tables were behaving… Next week: Watch Ron fight a randomly assigned monster in a randomly generated dungeon with a randomly generated weapon!
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That sai is why those random tables have persisted in these games for so long.
Excited to see if I continue missing Ron’s quarterstaff, which I do every time we play.
The sai was a nice way to offset a number of boring scrolls. Scrolls? Pfft. Learn that shit, don’t just go copying and pasting spells, you hack m%th@f%ck@s. I’m also glad it was a monk weapon. Ron is going to be able to disarm the hell out of our enemies.
I also want to make a PSA about evocation wizards and bringing-down-the-wrath-of-the-gods to smite enemies. They need space. A little “cone” room, if you will. The death of the wooly rhinoceros was unfortunate. Albedon loves animals. He especially loves animals that gore his enemies. But Albedon has got to bring the heat, and sometimes its get hit by a prismatic spray beam or GTFO. This is why Al likes Scorching Ray and Lightning Bolt. They shoot in a nice line. But daaaaaaaamn, this cone shit is where some of the uber-magic really happens.
*The more you know*
Prismatic Spray is a great spell, I’ve always loved it. It’s like Colour Spray’s bigger, more powerful brother. Great choice.
I’ll be interested in measuring your scorn for scrolls when you realise how many fights there are before bedtime.
Albedon’s bag of spells goes deep, Mr. Dungeonmaster. Of course, Albedon really isn’t above using scrolls. That won’t stop him from criticizing the poor penmanship or the use of sloppy grammar while he does so, but he’ll still use them.
And I also found the perfect gif for Al’s reaction to poisoning Tersplink’s wooly Rhino buddy:
http://i.imgur.com/DmPFc.gif