The main part of the party in Mended Horn is wrapping up a matter at an Abandoned Whaling/Sealing station... somewhat. Virgin Flame has made her return and is celebrating with exercise and tea after recovering an important marble statue head and vanquishing several amoebas in the process.
[1d8+6 = (4+6) = 10]
Assuming cure light wounds, CL 6
>>181775Correct! Looky there, back to normal. Dust reaches out a hoof and places it on the bat's withers, as a soft glow spreads from Dust's hoof to the bat's ears. At the same time, Brie can feel an energy radiating from the ground towards his ears.
>>181773Dust nods
"For that I am glad to here
My plans went off the trail
Although bad my intentions appear
I am glad to hear you are not after my tail."
>>181789Brie breathes a sigh of relief, the ringing in his ears finally subsiding.
"My good,..." he recalls the slight facial tick at 'Zebro', "Stallion, I can't thank you,... us Bats, we have such sensitive ears. Even with proper earplugs and ballistic sound suppression, I really prefer not to even use firearms if I can help it. I would opt for concussion grenades but for the same reason. It's a pity too, because the Master still won't teach me the secret of how to fight while blinded yet." He begins this little spiel going back to work on the safe, hoping that with the ringing gone the dice gods will remove the context-nerf that was cursing his skill checks.
[1d20+13 = (20+13) = 33]
>>181789Posey is still around if Defiant needs someone to chase his tail.
>>181794Well hot damn. Dust can't roll to save his life, but apparently he can help others. He watches with curiosity as the bat gets back to work.
>>181795I'm going to scrunch very hard
>>181794So thats a nat 20, and a 33, which defeats a good lock by the book numerically.
And is also a nat 20, if you wanna look at it that way. I do, obviously, but,....
In a corner of the boat somewhere, with nopony else around:
>>181799As Posey finds her skull alone in some corner, it momentarily starts glowing, twin beams firing from its eyes as it animates with a sickening cackle, levitating in mid air.
For the first time in this game, Posey looks genuinely afraid.
"M-master, I...!"
The skull roars
"MAKING FRIENDS WE SEE! ART THOU HAVING FUN?!""M-m-master! I can can explai-"
"WHAT HAVE THOU CONQUERED, ROSEY RING?!""Master, it has been a week! Wars take ti-"
ENOUGH EXCUSES!!! MUCH WAS INVESTED IN THEE, RING! THE MAGIC ETCHED INTO THY FORTIFIED BONES IS NOT THYS, IT IS OURS!!!"Posey collapses to the ground as the runes in her bones surge with power, cursed sigils writhing beneath her skin as she convulses like Reagan in the exorcist
She shrieks
"IT SEEMS AS THOU ARE UNWORTHY OF BEING OUR CREATION!!!""P-PLEASE HAVE MERCY!"
"MERCY?! MEEEEERCY?! DID WE TEACH THEE MERCY? LIKE THAT PALADIN THEE LET ESCAPE?!""I'M SORR-"
"AND WHERE ARE OUR TITHES!""Th.. The.. They are in the mail... I swear..!"
"WE DID NOT SEND THEE TO EQUESTRIA TO HAVE FUN, RING!""I... I can do bett-"
"UNWORTHY OF THE GIFTS WE HAVE GIVEN THEE! IT IS TIME THAT THY LEARNED TO EARN THY OWN POWER!"(Posey is just sobbing at this point)
"THE GIFTS WE HAVE GIVEN THEE ARE HEREBY FORFEIT! DO NOT DISAPPOINT US AGAIN, MISS RING!"And so, Posey is left in a groaning, smouldering heap, smoke rising off of the sores where her spellstitched runes burned themselves away. She takes several minutes to nurse her wounds before rejoining the party.
[1d4 = 1]>>181794Brie still hears a tinnitus ringing in his ears.
>>181727The shell is rather large, white in color, and has a number of concentric rings. There are pink stripes along the surface. It has something of a geometric pattern to the angles in the circles, which are not smooth save on the outer most layer, but have ridges that are more like a number of straight lines that turn, like a polygon rather than a circle.
>>181808This is me nerfing Posey in-character, btw
>>181797Brie opens the safe to find that it is two levels. The top portion is empty. It’s possible that no one stored anything here, but somehow this seems less likely than any valuables being taken out.
In a lower, larger portion of the safe, Brie finds a single object.
It’s a harpoon head that is oddly wide, and oddly girthy.
>>181811Hold up hold up hold up
Brie dpesnt open the safe yet, he was unlocking it. Opening it takes different preparation. Sheesh, the unprofessionalism
>>181811>actually read the postOh. Okay. What, it could be trapped.
>>181808>Th.. The.. They are in the mail... I swear..!I've heard the ca-neigh-dian postal union is striking, you might have wanted to let him know it was gonna take longer cause of that.
>>181812>>181813>>181811Dust watches Brie over the shoulder, curious as to his work
>>181808Youll get em back, you just gotta diy
>>181808May Kira make a listen check to see if she heard this, and came to investigate? Mostly just because Kira isn't doing anything else at the moment and I think it would be pretty interesting for the snej to watch from around the corner, but I don't want to if you feel like it would create problems.
>>181809Kira is very happy about her beautiful find, regardless of its true value.
>>181740Hmmmmm...well, Silver isn't exactly planning on selling it, but if the bat would like to try appraising it, he is more than welcome to.
Rosey Ring is feeling kind of lonely and angry after rudely getting her bones seared.
>>181795>>181789I am going to test out my new, reduced Str mod by grappling Dust.
She takes off her armor first
Touch attack
[1d20+5 = (1+5) = 6]
>>181825Top zozzle
>>181824In a moment, Brie just got the safe open and is looking for any booby traps (nat 2, he found em if)
>>181825Dust blinks at the unicorn trying to grab him, and decides to grab back.
[1d20+8 = (9+8) = 17]
>>181824Also, Brie's appraisal may glean more info about its origins, type, quality, etc.
>>181833Oh, you want to dance?
Opposed grapple
[1d20+5 = (15+5) = 20]Also roll DC 22 Will vs Frightful Presence
>>18183017 is enough to hear Brie stealthkill
>>181835>>181833>>181825Brie is only mildly irritated by the commotion behind him, fixated as he is on the task at hand.
Im not gonna go forward till I get the results of the trap search, Im sure GM knows
>>181831>>181825Kira slithers up to Posey, waiting patiently for her and Dust to stop play wrestling so she can talk with her.
>>181834With Posey being in the area, Silver also arrives, helmet in hoof. He shows it to Brie, asking him, "You have more experience than me with appraising items, can you tell anything more about this than I can?"
>>181835Well he's grabbed.
Surely I can roll over a 10 on a will save.
[1d20+9 = (18+9) = 27]"A strange pony you are
From lands of afar
For mystery you set the bar
A firey head
A fortune unread
Perhaps at first I had you misread"
>>181835Posey is now grappling Dust
>>181833>>181839Rolling to pin
[1d20+5 = (20+5) = 25]"Let it happen."
>>181840Dust scrunches as this petite mare somehow gets the upper hoof over him and pins him down
"Firey indeed
A tribe you could lead
Now I hope for your intent
This is your furthest intent"
>>181842No opposed check?
Dust is pinned.
Now completely unable to move or speak, as Posey stuffs his face in her chest fluff.
"Shush, be a good colt and help me scratch my itch."
She rips off his codpiece with her horn
"Now stand that thing up for me." She says, brandishing a hand-like Construct with her magic as she reaches behind her
Rolling Perform (loodness)
[1d20+8 = (18+8) = 26]
"Am I gonna have to roll a freaking concentration check? Is that what youre after? This could be some Raiders of the Lost arc shit right now. Can you take that elsewhere?" Brie says loudly, still focused.
>>181845I didn't know I was entitled to an opposed checked, I don't know how any of this works
>codpiece>implyingThe zeeb's eyes somehow seems to shrink and go wide at the same time. Some muffled noises come from Posey's fluff
>>181846Also, rolling a pure wisdom check that Ill explain if it appears to be relevant
[1d20-1 = (12-1) = 11]
>>181845>>181847Kira: "O-kay, I think that's enough, I don't want my friends molesting my other friends."
Grapple:
[1d20+13 = (19+13) = 32]
>>181849>>181847>>181851Posey and Dust feel something smooth and muscular come between them, before Kira wraps her tail around the struggle snuggling mare and pulls her off the poor zeeb. She gives Posey a nice, friendly snek hug while petting her mane.
>>181849I really wish Brie wasnt prepccupied, he would have many compliments for the technique
>>181849"Hmmmmpf, no fun allowed."
>>181852This is how we do things in Magehold. Respect muh culture.
Posey use begrudgingly pulled off with a *POP* sound
>>181852>>181854Dust stays laying on the floor, staring at the ceiling
"What has just happened
And why do I feel.... Dampened...."
>>181854>>181856Kira: "Shhhshhhshh, now's probably not the time for struggle snuggles. Or anytime, for that matter. Something tells me Dust would rather have his honor remain un-besmirched."
She continues petting her cute mare friend's mane, before wrapping her forelegs around the exposed portion of Posey and hugging her tight.
Kira: "Besides, you look like you could use a nice friendly hug right now!"
>>181858Based/coot noodle
Snek, you couldnlearn a thing,....
>>181856Rolling Intimidate to wink at Dust
[1d20+15 = (4+15) = 19]
>>181859Possibly, Kira has a lot left to learn about a lot of things.
>>181862I would like to propose that Posey probably isn't quite as intimidating as she normally would be at the current moment, being smothered in a big friendly lamia hug.
>>181865No no, I was talking to Snek, the character. Cuz hes here. Did you think Addy came alone?
>>181862Dust shudders a little bit, regardless of whether or not the intimidate works.
Opposed
[1d20+10 = (11+10) = 21]"Much too firery a mare
Who needs to make herself part of a pair
Perhaps under better circumstances
And with one who reciprocates her advances."
>>181594"Is that everything that i have missed the last few days, sir?"
Dark Star asks, still needing a shower and some whiskey
"Oh come on, that was pretty good"
>>181871Kira: "Ewwwwww, groooooss!" Brie gets the noodle to giggle.
>>181866Ohhhhhhhhh, okay then
>>181868Rolling to bite Dust as Posey being dragged away (at a -4 penalty)
[1d20+1 = (10+1) = 11]
>>181874Hes not "on scene", but he breaks the 4th wall. So I can do 4th wall breaks that talk shit at.
And you can too!
I leave for a couple hours, and a sexual assault occurs
>>181880Imagine trying to search for traps while this is the background subtext
>>181875Posey suffers
[1d3 = 2] burn damage from Dust's last rhyme
>>181868>>181870"No... But that
is the gist of it."
>>181871Dust scrunches harder. Much harder. That bat is getting scrunched into the 5th dimension
>>181875Dust shivers a little as the fiesty little fireball snaps at him. It reminds him of many a croc he's seen at the watering holes.
>>181882Kek
>>181815And Brie finds...
There are no traps here. Looks like whatever whomever did to this safe, they did it in a hurry.
>>181847You're entitled, you just would have lost
>>181849That's how you become the no-fun-noodle
>>181851No one out grapples the noodle
>>181862I... don't think that that's what intimidation is
>>181886She'll get him next time.
>>181887Hey, Kira's pretty fun!...Right...?
>>181891How does a horse wear gloves?
Do you mean socks?
>>181892Idk, a fun snek wouldn't have intervened: she would have joined in.
>>181891He can take it. And the great thing is, I know a place to put it.
>>181893You just put it over the one toe
>>181895No one
>>181896Basically gloves, exceptnfor horses, where onlynthe outline of the nail of the hoof was not 'fabricked'
>>181897Emphasis at this time, hes not trying to estensively touch or examine, just trying to wrap-up/bundle it for later
>>181895This is what the Setting Sun discipline is good for.
>>181898>Zeeb cum>holy waterIn Dust's case,
I'd say sure, but in most zeebs, the opposite
Are we done searching the boat? Can we go to the lighthouse now?
>>181752Flowercup
squeaky
"Um, it's okay. It's just... a weird word."
Heather:
"Oh, but of course we do. We always bring out the best for the guests. You should try tea more often. It clears the mind, and can calm you down."
>>181898>>181902>Posey's alignment shift is facilitated by zebra cumHmmm... I can dig it
>>181906No
>>181901Roll Spot
>>181908Any other checks I should help with the search?
I got Detect Magic 1/day, although I'd rather save that for when it's necessary.
>>181910Aww... Maybe not
>>181909First, she must distract the noodle
Would she like to roll spot?
>inb4 surprise round kraken attack
I'm ready
>>181912Eh, good enough to distract the 20 foot python that is constricting her with a "Hey, look over there!" into the cockpit
>>181913Oh come on, that doesn't happen until after you leave the boat
>>181915>distractWouldn't that be a bluff check?
Alright.
>after you leaveYay, kraken.