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>>180686First, Kira now arrives, seeing the carnage that has occurred in the first round. Silver calls out to her, loudly as he can't hear himself over the ringing, "CROWN!"
Kira's Initiative:
[1d20+3 = (20+3) = 23] Well that didn't go to plan! Shit!
>>180684A what
>>180680*glaring zigger noises*
>>180689Roll 1d20 plus your character level.
>>180688Sweet, back-to-back actions!
>>180686>>180687Silver switches targets, targeting the yeth hound with first an overhead strike then a thrust with his greatsword.
Overhead:
[1d20+12 = (5+12) = 17]Thrust:
[1d20+7 = (4+7) = 11]Kira, meanwhile, makes a beeline for the red griffon wearing the crown, and makes a touch attack to attempt a grapple.
Touch Attack:
[1d20+9 = (6+9) = 15] >>180683Uh... Yeah, you're right. Heather is the mare. Flowercup is the flly,
It's still Heather
"Oh, we're working on one."
I need to review the staff of the church.
>>180693That's a successful touch by Kira.
But Silver doesn't penetrate through it's unnatural hide
>>180694Grapple: Kira attempts to wrap her coils around the red griffon, restraining him and making him an easy target to take the crown from.
[1d20+13 = (14+13) = 27] >>180696He has a much higher grapple than that, but he was only going to succeed on a very high roll anyways...
>>180695Kira has grappled the mean griffin
Yellow stabs at Posey
[1d20+4 = (20+4) = 24]
Black lost his fort save
>>180694>Uh... Yeah, you're right. Heather is the mare. Flowercup is the flly,>I need to review the staff of the church.^^
Vir nods along with Heather's words.
"Tell me if you need anything. I can... Uhh, maybe help move stuff. I'm going out to the courtyard... Where could I train? I don't need much space."
>>180695Great. Now he can't use his harpoon to fight back when Posey disarms him, meaning that I have a huge advantage with disarming him
>>180698"~Aaaiiieee, not so hard!" Posey says, as she's stabbed where her heart should be for the second time this fight.
>>180700Posey orders her unseen servant to pick up the crown and place it on her head as soon as she disarms him.
Since she's adjacent, she can't use her polearm to disarm him, so she uses her bare hoof.
[1d20+12 = (2+12) = 14]Also, Dreadful Wrath targeting the dog, DC 22
I'll demoralizes the dog too
[1d20+18 = (5+18) = 23](Last round I forgot flanking bonus, which may have ended the fight a round ago, but whatever...)
>>180702....I could also disarm with my other bare hoof (two weapon fighting), since I didn't move
[1d20+8 = (20+8) = 28] >>180701"Well..." She presses her lips together. "Yes, well, no, we don't have a cloister, if that's what you're asking for. But there's a walled in courtyard with a fountain, and then an even more private garden in the back, if you like."
>>180702>>180705Posey is able to literally knock it off of his head.
The unseen servant has some sort of revulsion to it.
Red is only able to open his eyes and shake his head
>>180702>>180705The hound
which passed its will save bites at Posey again
[1d20+10 = (5+10) = 15] >>180706>You can use a disarm action to snatch an item worn by the target. If you want to have the item in your hand, the disarm must be made as an unarmed attack.Posey is holding the crown. Is she affected by it? Is it cursed?
Posey pets the dog with her horn.
>>180706Is it my turn?
If so, Dust would elect to get in range to the hound to lift his flail really high, and bonk it over the head.
Idk how 3.5e works with thinks like attacks of opportunities, so I'm just gonna roll my attack and resolve that stuff after.
[1d20+9 = (9+9) = 18] >>180707It physically feels as if it contained a charge of static electricity. It is unpleasant to hold.
>>180708Its hide is obscenely thick, so that fails to push through.
>>180709Posey took a full round action, so her turn is over.
Unless putting the crown on her head is a free action. She really wants to try it on.
The White Griffin moves back into the cockpit.
Brie and Cavaliere are away at the moment.
>>180711I'll need a minute, I've been conscripted to help with supper. Maybe Brie will get back in that short time.
>>180706>Red is only able to open his eyes and shake his head"Your reign is over! Surrender!" Posey says, trying her hardest to make the message clear from what she knows of Northern gruffonian.
>>180706The clippity clopping echos through the hall of the church.
"I'll go to the garden, after I have dro- Put this down," Vir says and nods to the head on her withers. ^^ "I'll just exit the church and keep walking to the back right?"
>>180714Red blinks multiple times
"Hva?"
>>180715She smiles
"Oh no, you have to go through the door in the back, then down a hallway, and it's a door that will be on your... left. It's a
private garden."
>>180711GM, who is where? White went into the cockpit, Red is in the middle? Yellow is still to his side, and black has the rifle? Does Brie have an unobstructed line of approach on Black?
>>180717I'm guessing with the mind control spell broken, combat is over?
Oh wait, there's still the dog.
Can I roll diplomacy to pet the dog?
>>180719You can wait your turn, please (he says through very very thinly veiled resolve to hold his patience)
>>180718Red is in the middle, physically surrounded by Kira. Silver is in front of red. Posey is to the right of Silver. Yellow is to Red's side, kind of near Brie, but in perfect stabbing distance all the same from Posey, evidently
Black is in the stairwell on the far side of the cabin from Brie. He is stunned this round and not able to move. Because both Brie and Black are kind of "behind" Red, Posey, and the like, he kind of does have an unobstructed line of approach, save for the edge of the stairwell and the almost 15 feet of distance.
>>180722Fucking FINALLY
Charge action, closing distance to Black (60' max), improved grapple attack action
[1d20+12 = (14+12) = 26] Excuse me, that was the grapple check.
Touch attack [1d20+8 = (17+8) = 25]
>>180723whumpHe ain't moving. It succeeds.
>>180722Okay, so, before any more actions are taken, is:
1.) the dog still present and hostile?
2.) Red still hostile?
>>180726The dog is present and hostile
Red does not appear to be hostile.
Assuming both succeed, which by all mechanics they should, he can no longer use the rifle effectively. Brie will end his round attempting to hear for any commotion further down the stairs
>>180725Ponies with a familiarity in History: Martial Arts will recognize the technique Brie just performed as being the "Himeru Kyuu", or "Cloaker Coffin", a traditional technique of Kyushin-Ryu jiu jitsju. If going for the kill, he would instead opt for the lesser known "Himeru Ansatsu", or "Cloaker Assassination".
The Himeru technique is specific to bats, involving the wings to mimic the grasping capacity of the indigenous subterranean creature."I know, right? I have my own narrator!"
I would like to propose - since he did give me permission - that Brie shout to Cavaliere "Try to hit the off button on the doggo"!
Meaning, try stunning the doggo
>>180729Kek
Brie can hear downstairs, though the tinnitus isn't helping. He hears nothing special. He can see downstairs. There is water, but no griffins are visible.
>>180731His earplugs are in, under the mask
>>180730Are you controlling Cav, then? I'll wait to take my turn(s) after if that's the case.
>>180727Okay, free action time then while we figure out if Cavaliere is going to take a turn.
Silver shouts, "COIL AROUND DOG, KIRA," his hearing still not exceptionally well after the sonic burst. Kira nods at Silver in understanding.
On my next turn, I would like to roll diplomacy vs the dog.
Posey speaks infernal, and she's holding the sea crown. She may be able to make it back down.
Posey likes dogs.
>>180733Cav did suggest it before he left. I'm not controlling him in this way, merely suggesting in character based on what he seems able to do (Brie has PLENTY of experience with stunning hoof, tho he doesn't know how the technique is performed)
Theres uhm,,, some lewd stories involving stunning hoof Shrugs
Cavalieri’s guns wouldn’t be effective past the damage reduction, anyways.
Cavaliere:
Stunning Fist [1d20+4 = (4+4) = 8]
Alr then, unleash the noodle
>>180734Does that mean you would rather prefer that we didn't kill the doggo?
>>180738It depends if it's summoned (in which case it should disappear if it's summoner is incapacitated)
Or called (in which case it would actually die when killed).
If it's a called creature, it could be helpful to use on our adventure, if we treat it well.
I guess this warrants an Arcana check
[1d20+11 = (17+11) = 28] >>180738Cav missed his stunning fist, its Silver and Kira nao
>>180717Vir smiles back.
Vir walks over to the place where Heather indicates and lowers herself slowly down on her belly. She then extends her right front hoof and right hind leg away from her body to the right. She leans downwards on her right side so the head is tipped off but then she rolls over onto her left side and catches the head smoothly with her hooves like shellfish clam. She then stands up and lets the head lay there.
Vir pouts as she sees the head is still grimy, she tries to clean it a bit more as rubs it off with her hoof. Getting some of the grim on the fur of her hoof instead.
She blinks as she remember.
"By the way, I found it on the bottom of the Delabear River near one of its bridge's pillars. There was a saddlebag next to it... And a pair of glasses bu-but I doubt... Could that been related to, somehow or..?" Vir trails off.
>>180742"I... Don't know. We don't have a saddlebag missing. Nor any glasses. But there are many ponies who have walked across that bridge..."
>>180744Vir scratches the back of her neck, embarrassed and successfully add some of that wonderful grim to her neck fur.
"Yeah, I don't why I thought that would be related. Seems far-fetched now. Hehe."
She feels the urge again and licks her lips. She blinks.
"I'm go and find that garden now."
>>180740I don't think GM pone wants us to have a yeth hound in the party, regardless if it's summoned or called, or regardless of the rules by which it exists in this plane of existence.
>>180733>>180731Okay, Silver readies his attack, letting Kira go first. First, Kira releases the red griffon from her grasp (a free action), and turns her attention to the doggo.
Touch Attack: Kira first sees if she can get her tail into a position to attempt a grapple.
[1d20+9 = (9+9) = 18] >>180748"Well, it may be... I don't know who would throw a saddle bag off a bridge. But I have even less idea who would take a statue, cut its head off, and toss it into a river. Well, I know who... All the same, I don't know."
Just gotta go to the back
>>180740It's supposed to be summoned and it doesn't state clearly that a summoned monster disappears when the summoner is incapacitated.
>>180751Touch attack hits
>>180753Grapple: Oh, nevermind then. Kira now attempts to wrap her coils around the yeth hound.
[1d20+13 = (2+13) = 15] >>180753Oh, whatever then.
Keep attacking, everypony.
>>180758Kira is thanking her lucky stars that the doggo is distracted enough that she managed to get her coils wrapped around him. With the yeth hound wrapped up, Silver takes his prepared action, once again swing at the dog with an overhead attack, followed by a thrust.
Overhead:
[1d20+12 = (8+12) = 20]Thrust:
[1d20+7 = (9+7) = 16] >>180760The first hits, but the second doesn't
quite make it through its thick skin.
>>180760>>180762The dog is flanked and grappled, so both strikes should hit.
>>180763+2 cuz flanking, +2 cuz grappled
>>180764+2 Flanking, no dex bonus because grappled.
>>180753As if submerged in the river again, Vir disappears into herself. A mocking voice speaks, "Where's your princess now, huh? Heh heh heh."
She shakes of the vision with a shake of her head.
Then she looks ahead darkly.
"Yes, they do exist. You'd wish they at least show respect to what others care about even if they don't agree," Vir says.
>>180770Yelp!The dog goes limp in Kira's coils, and then disintegrates into a sort of ash that itself evaporates.
>>180767She sighs
"Yes... I know. I know. Many ponies disrespect the princesses. A few do it openly, and brazenly. Not to imply they'd be any more respectful to regular ponies..."
>>180772With the battle finished, Silver holds himself up by his sword. He looks around at the group, bleeding from a terrible shoulder wound, a less-terrible stab wound, and from the ears. "Is everyone okay?"
Kira: "Is...combat always going to be that hectic?"
>>180772Posey gently pets the dog one more time as it disappears, speaking to it in infernal:
"त्वं उत्तमः आह्वानः आसीः। विदाई, श्वापद।"
I'm going to have to go eat dinner in a bit.
Posey will leave it to the rest of the party to negotiate with the liberated griffins, while she turns her attention to examining the sea crown and feeling its power.
If I don't respond, carry on without me, and assume Posey is busy with the crown, following behind the party.
>>180775Dust walks over and gives Posey a light whap on the flank with his flail. Not enough to do damage or hurt, but enough to get attention. He then drops his flail
"If like a filly you will act
Like a yearling we will treat
Your strategies require more tact
You need to know when to retreat
And that into combat you cannot just leap
Unless you want us all to fall into eternal sleep."
>>180774Dust plods on over to Silver and carefully sniffs at his shoulder wound, he then looks up at Silver
"Reservations?
Misgiving?
I apologize for my actions
But with your permission
As we continue this mission
I'd like to keep you among the living."
Dust gently raises a hoof that begins to dully glow, he seems to be asking for permission to heal
>>180784"~Relax, everypony is fine" she says
the stab wounds in her chest close up very quickly.She smiles
"It's cute of you to worry about me though. I'm flattered." she bats her eyelashes
"I like how you beat that gong." her chest fluff puffs out
Seduction
[1d20+8 = (6+8) = 14] >>180784Silver smiles at the zeeb. "I saw what you were trying to do. My hearing is not so happy with it, but it could have worked." He grunts in pain and exertion, looking down at the terrible wound left behind from the harpoon being shoved into his shoulder and then yanked out again, staining his flak jacket. "Normally I would turn you down, saying that others need help more than me...but I can not lie...this really hurts..."
Kira also looks on at Silver and Posey's injuries with concern.
>>180772Vir's clenched teeth relaxes as another memory displays itself before her. This one painted in a warm orange-yellow color entering from a nearby window during dawn. A unicorn mare with a blue coat and purple fluffy mane with silvery tips, lets her blue magic crochets tablecloth with two big metal needles. She smiles down at her from her seat as she notices her arrival.
"Did you want something, Virgin..."~Vir looks over at Heather. She forces back feelings as she blinks a few times. She licks lips again.
"Somepony, at my monastery. My... A nun, mother Justeney. I thought she was the smartest pony. She used to say, 'It's the small kindness that you do, not the big that you promise that matters.' I feel, like these ponies probably tell themselves that their goal is good so that they do these hurtful things to others is then also good," Vir almost whispers.
>>180789Posey seems miraculously unwounded. Perhaps Silver's eyes deceived him.
"I'm fine. My armor blocked the knife. It's not like he stabbed me in the heart twice or anything..."
Bluff
[1d20+14 = (2+14) = 16] >>180792Sense motive, that was not a grazing wound (not hating, just establishing "Hey,...."
[1d20+8 = (18+8) = 26] >>180793Silver raises an eyebrow at that statement. Kira, apparently in awe at how Posey somehow managed to heal already from being stabbed in the heart, gives Posey a couple
poke pokes where she got stabbed.
>>180791>"Did you want something, Virgin..."~Actually, it should be, "did you want something,
Vir"
Justeney used her nickname.
>>180788Dust turns and narrows his eyes at her
"Just me more careful
Before you get another earful"
>>180789As he says that, he lifts his hoof, and gently lays it onto Silver. He can feel a warming energy spread throughout him, despite where Dust's hoof lays, from his own hooves almost as if it is coming from the ground itself. Cure light wounds.
[1d8+6 = (7+6) = 13]>>180792Dust's head whips back around
Sense motive
[1d20+4 = (3+4) = 7] >>180794........ Fuck
Silver knows what he saw. Posey was absolutely stabbed right in the heart, and twice suffered a wound that by all measures should have instantly killed a pony like her.
And yet, with her chest fluff exposed in an attempt to sexually harass Dust, her body seems mostly unharmed, with only two small creases in her fur where the knife pierced her chest.
Posey's ears droop, and she steps away, still holding the sea crown.
"Hehe... What are you all staring at? The monster is gone.."
>>180800But you don't notice anything! Lol
>>180791She sighs yet again
"Yeah, something like that. Ponies have utterly lost sight of the good, these days. Well, some of them has. But all it takes is a few to do a lot of bad."
>>180788>>180792Fast healing doesn't even kick in until 50% of HP is lost according to your character sheet>>180787The black griffin blinks multiple times, then turns his head around to look at the stallion who is on his back, and has his arms wrapped around him.
"Ooo... ooo woo?"
The griffin asks, blushing
>>180792Mala
[1d20+1 = (3+1) = 4] >>180800Brie is wearing a mask, so his facial features are indistinguishable,... but if you were to ASK him, he MIGHT have something to say about care and earfuls....
>>180802Oh gawd, Brie is gonna make a non-lethal bop
[1d20+7 = (14+7) = 21] >>180800He shrugs, figuring Posey just made a bad joke
"May I heal you as well?
I saw you wrestling that dog from hell,
I am sure it got you before its farewell"
>>180800Silver and Kira look on as the magic works its, well, magic. Silver's wounds seemingly patch themselves up before their very eyes. While Silver isn't at 100%, he's absolutely feeling a lot better without having those vicious injuries.
Silver: "Thank you very much, Dust."
Kira: "Ooooooooooooooooo!" Now it's Silver's turn to be
poke poked by the noodle.
>>180801Thankfully, Silver already knows that Posey is cursed, and as such is less worried about this revelation than perhaps Posey is worried about. Kira, for her part, is more amazed by Posey's resiliency than anything else, and would continue to
poke poke Posey's chest if it wasn't for her currently
poke poking Silver's shoulder.
>>180795You have a sense that Posey is bullshitting.
>>180803Silver was simply the priority because he had a very obvious hole in his chest. Yes everyone has minor ear damage now but you treat the dude with a punctured lung before the ruptured eardrum.
Also stop deleting your posts before I shove mangos uo Brie's ponut.
>>180807Well, he ain't beating that. So I won't even try
Dust simply shrugs, and turns towards the bat with a glowing hoof as well, eyebrows cocked in a questioning glance.
>>180809Dust also nods at Silver
>>180807The damage reduction is +2. She took 12 and then about 4 damage. She took damage, and it doesn't heal instantly
>>180810>a senseBrie beat the bluff by +10, its more than a sense. Not gonna say nothing, just taking notes.
>>180812I can hatch out the specifics later, but for now I think I need to honor the RP consequences of suffering a grievous wound that would have killed a normal pony.
>>180799^^
>>180802"Each day the princess gets out of her bed and raises the sun, turning the year beautiful. Each day, you water this Solemn Vow flower."~Vir feels something cold grip her heart. She looks away and inhales through her teeth.
Her throat aches.
"Well! I hope we all have reached a better place... except you," Brie says, somehow communicating disgust at the Black Griffon. He says this more to break the tension and allow the Red Griffon to (maybe?) regain composure.