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>>183282qt
We're seeing if anything can be learned from/done with Sea Stone, before we reach the old village at the center of the island where the non-dominated commies are holed up.
>>183282HE LIVES>He wants to be dominatedOpen your mind, and you can be
>>183283"I see..." She looks away
"So... tell us about you"
>>183281Alright
Through the ether, Rosey Ring lashes out with her deranged, mutated mind, asserting dominance as she mentally screams at the beast
"मम नाम ज्ञातव्यम्, यात्रिक, यतः भवता रोजी रिंग इत्यस्य मनः, अविनाशी जादूगरनी, अनुभूता! भवन्तः अन्ये च सर्वे सृष्टयः मम पुरतः जानुभ्यां न्यस्यन्ति! अहम् आगच्छामि!"Rolling intimidate, adding +2 circumstance bonus from the nat 20 save
[1d20+19 = (2+19) = 21]Maybe this'll help sever it's connection with Sea Stone
>>183282>Dominate me mommy uwuAgain?
Brie's shitty luck is spreading to the party
>>183282>So uh, now what are we doing?We're going to go best up whatever lovecraftian horror is controlling the communists.
You have a good Will Save, so you'll be helpful.
>>183288It's covid
Dust stands off to the side, gripping his flail way too tight. He's obviously on edge, but he's not gonna say anything yet.
>>183287Sea Stone turns to Posey, and speaks
"तू मित्र नाहीस. विस्मरण तुझी वाट पाहत आहे." >>183287Silver and Kira are right there to pull Posey off of Sea Stone before any permanent damage is done, if she needs it.
>>183282>>183290Does Dust have anything that can sever a psychic mind link between a pony and a powerful hive mind from a different dimension?
>>183291Posey chuckles, turning to Sea Stone with a manic smile and glowing yellow eyes.
"मूर्खता भवतः, अहं मृत्युभयम् इति कल्पयितुं। अहं बहुकालपूर्वं अन्धकारेण सह सहमतः अभवम्।"
"चिन्ता मा कुरुत। त्वं एकस्मिन् दिने मृतैः सह मिलिष्यसि, वयं च परममित्राः भविष्यामः।"
>>183292>Does Dust have anything that can sever a psychic mind link between a pony and a powerful hive mind from a different dimension?Protection From Evil is a good spell for this.
>>183292I, uh.... Hm.... No. I didn't take anything like remove curse.
>>183295Nor that
>>183296Reeeeeeeee
The mist around the ponies starts to swirl, and smoke starts to materialize in random parts of the air. The air around them, for so long not much above freezing, begins to warm dramatically.
>>183294Sea Stone stares at Posey
"मी येथे तुम्हा भौतिक लोकांच्या इच्छा पूर्ण करण्यासाठी आलो आहे. माझी निर्मिती लवकरच तुझी होईल." >>183299>>183298>>183296>>183295Silver: "I do not like this. I think we need to move."
>>183299Dust is kinda obviously trotting in place as he notices this. He's getting very uncomfortable and very restless very quickly as he watches.
"I do not mean to alarm my friends
But is anyone else afraid this is the end?
I do not like this pony's looks
And I do not care to see if this is a hook."
>>183300Dust turns and nods seriously
>>183301Akshually sir, this is a wendy's
>>183299Istg, if this is a time and post sensitive event,... im driving fuckface,
>>183299>>183300Check'd
"Me neither. Hold on."He looks to see if any of the party members has a rag to use to cover the captive's eyes.
Rosey Ring when communist ayy lmaos are trying to take over
her world and dominate
her thralls:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=qgoTQOELMig>>183299Posey glares back at the tonguespeaking pony, pure malice in her eyes
"मम केवलं इच्छा अस्ति यत् मम शक्तिः सम्पूर्णं कर्तुं, अस्य क्षेत्रस्य स्वामी इति मम दैवस्य पूर्तये च । इ एव सूर्यं कृष्णं करिष्यामि। मा बाधां कुरुत।"
>>183304Kira
rrriiipppps a strip of cloth off of Sea Stone's uniform with a "Sorry!" and wraps it around the pony's eyes to blindfold him.
Kira: "Should we plug his ears, too?"
>>183306"Can't be too careful."He takes some of the cloth and stuffs wads into Sea Stone's ears. It won't block all the sound but should make overhearing the party harder.
The party has made its way to a sort of valley, just inland from the whaling station. The ground is covered in partly dead grass. To left and right, the ground raises slightly. There is an ancient stone wall to the left within view. The dense mists prevent any view further than 100 feet.
Standing on the wall is a black figure that removes a 5-pointed star, and four or five feet tall. In the right is much the same. The ground moves, and the misty air visibly rotates in unnatural vortexes
Sea Stone speaks loudly, though he fails to make eye contact with anypony
“Who here would look refuge from Death? Our fellow traveler can grant it, once he figures out what death is. But not for this creature. He is much too kind for that.”
He starts to speak in the strange, black language the white unicorn insists on,
“ सूर्यः त्वां दहति।”
Above, as if from a flare, the mists glows orange, illuminating the field.
"Should I NOT start shooting?" Brie exclaims
>>183285"What do you want to know? I'm from Baltimare and I am not a fan of Non-ponies."
>>183301Put the fries in the bag bro
>>183310Wake me when its initiative
>>183308Kira: "Ouroboros protect us..."
Silver calls out to whatever entity it is that the idiot Stalliongraders have brought onto the island that's controlling the fog and playing games with their minds, "Show yourself or leave us be, but either way do not waste our time with mind games!"
>>183308"Some creature has lit a flare, so let's get moving," Cavaliere states. He draws his revolver and moves toward the figure.
>>183308Posey grits her teeth and hisses, silently swearing to drive this invader from her world.
"Let us go." She says, stepping forward
"Whatever this entity is, it is not welcome in this world. It would be unbecoming of me as an exorcist to let it do as it pleases on this plane..."
She tossed her mane fabulously and draws her sword, readying herself for battle, trotting off into the mist.
She casts Chill Touch, getting ready to expend her touches later.
>>183315Silver moves to stop her from leaving so suddenly. "Let us not split up. We must remain as one, as to not let whatever this is from dividing and conquering us."
>>183308Dust looks at the pony with a rath confused face?
"What do you mean a refuge from death?
Death is not a coming storm
Death is not the grave of worms
The end of all who are here is death
And that is an end that Zanit giveth
To shy away from our end
Is a hate for the life we lead
This is a fate you cannot bend
As the earth produces our feed
Back to the earth our bodies are fed."
Dust looks up to see the source of the light. He tightens his cloak and regrabs his flail, uttering a short prayer that whatever comes will be quick.
>>183312Cùz I havent lost hours of my life?
The figures in the distance vanish in a disruption of air. The ground moves.
Then from the air, smoke moves, and out from it pops out two creatures, more or less identical to each other:
They look like massive jet-black starfish, with purple hued interiors, and a single big black orb that must be an eye. It stands on a single tentacle-leg. One is to each side.
From the ground, and to each side, something pops out of the ground. It is massive, like a five foot long cross between a snake and a centipede with black, chitinous exoskeleton, though it is covered in brown fur like a tarantula. It's eyes are not easily seen, and its mouth is a beak with three, long tentacles.
Roll InitiaveStarfish:
[1d20+8 = (18+8) = 26]Centipedes:
[1d20+2 = (18+2) = 20]>>183318Kill Yourself.
Is the formation the same as before?
>>183319Kira looks absolutely frightened as she draws her bow.
[1d20+3 = (17+3) = 20]Silver draws his sword, offering up a prayer to Celestia.
[1d20+4 = (10+4) = 14] >>183319Fuck yeah! We lovecraft nao.
Initiative
[1d20+7 = (11+7) = 18] >>183323Cavaliere would be a few feet closer to the ridge with the wall. His weapon is already drawn.
Im kidding, Im not salty, its just shitpostimg
Everyone, roll damage on your turn to streamline things
Order:
Starfish
Brie
Centipedes
Kira
Whoever 77fb744 is
Silver
Defiant
>>183326Oh sure, everypony roll higher initiative than me. Stupid dice.
>>183329Do the IDs not show up as colored for anyone else? Cause that's honestly how I'm keeping track of everypony.
>>183319Huh. The starfish rolled an 18. Yet going before Bries nat 20
>>183333Nat 20 doesn't mean you go first. Starfish had a higher mod.
One starfish reaches out with its tentacles towards Posey
[1d20+4 = (11+4) = 15][1d4+2 = (4+2) = 6]]
[1d20+4 = (3+4) = 7][1d4+2 = (3+2) = 5]]
Another towards Silver
[1d20+4 = (5+4) = 9][1d4+2 = (2+2) = 4][1d20+4 = (7+4) = 11][1d4+2 = (1+2) = 3]>>183333Their adjusted score is 26. Brie can flank them
Also, Brie's turn
>>183335Silver manages to deftly dodge the starfish(?)'s tentacles.
>>183335Flanking requires another character to be opposite. Which doesnt track.
Brie will tumble (if necessary) to seek the 'furthest' one, with improved grapple as a charge action.
For fucks sake a map or a visual
>>183337Dude if every post of yours is going to be you bitching then I'm just going to filter your posts
>>183338Whelp. That works.
You want a centipede or a starfish?
>>183339Centepedes have more localized heads
>>183340The touch attack most certainly lands. Rolling opposed grapple
[1d20+3 = (15+3) = 18] >>183339Im not trying to be a dick, but its hard to be strategic if u are trying to visualize from a bad deacription (no.offense)
>>183342I understand, but I don't have a map here.
You can try to ask questions and describe carefully what you intend to do
>>183343Brie manages to essentially wrangle the centipede, jumping on its back and grabbing it
>>183342Its bad cuz Idk whats legit or not
>>183344Nono, thats Brie's turn. I didnt declare defensive fighting (shoulda), thats... onto the next
"i do hope somepony will stab this one:
One centipede is disabled by Brie, and tries to wrestle him off
Grapple:
[1d20+3 = (4+3) = 7]
The other attacks Posey
[1d20+4 = (14+4) = 18]
[1d4+2 = (4+2) = 6]
[1d20+4 = (6+4) = 10]
[1d4+2 = (2+2) = 4]
[1d20+4 = (6+4) = 10]
[1d4+2 = (3+2) = 5]
And bites
[1d20+3 = (4+3) = 7]
[1d3+1 = (2+1) = 3]
>>183348Posey, once again, slaps the tentacles away with her magic
"IS THIS ALL YOU CAN CONJURE, TRAVELLER?!"
From the ether, two more creatures start to materialize, standing in front of Posey. There are tall, fat, and with arms that hang low to the ground. They assemble as if from the mist itself.
>>183352Of all the time to be struggle snuggling
>>183352>ugly bastards from beyond the voidPosey would be into this, if she weren't so bloodthirsty right now.
Are they in melee range?
>>183348Kira lets out a series of frightened expletives in her native language before drawing three arrows and wheeling around to get a better view of the enemies. She targets the centipede currently being grappled by the far more brace bat with precise shots, firing two arrows with her first draw at once, then the third arrow on her second draw.
Multishot Draw:
[1d20+7 = (9+7) = 16]Second Draw:
[1d20+6 = (12+6) = 18]>>183350>>183352Silver: "WILL YOU STOP TAUNTING EXTRADIMENSIONAL HIVE MIND!?"
Garv's turn
>>183354They aren't even real yet
They join next round>>183355Hit and Hit
Roll Damage
>>183348>>183356Cavaliere holds out his masterwork revolver at foreleg's length and shoots the centipede that Brie is grappling with. Because he has the Precise Shot feat, he doesn't take a -4 penalty.
[1d20+8 = (14+8) = 22]He shouts to Posey,
"You might want to ease off on the taunting until we understand what we're dealing with!"After shooting the centipede, he moves back until it's just within his first range increment.
>>183329You missed me
>>183331They're colored for me
>>183333Unlike with attacks, natural 20s don't have any special meaning with initiative. Also check'd
Terrible waste of quads>>183337A map
would be useful, if only for positioning knowledge. Did I mention Ilwinter's map designer is really cheap and easy to use?
>>183339>You want a centipede or a starfish?I want out of this buffet.
Also touching a centipede ewwwww>>183355You can combine multishot with precise shot?
>>183357Precise shot just means you don't suffer the usual -4 penalty on your attack roll when targeting an enemy engaged in melee.
>>183355>>183357"You don't get it! I have dealt with these kinds of abominations before. They will not relent until everything in every world is just as twisted as them, unless they are chased away outright. Violence is the only language that they understand."
This is MY world! No ayys welcome!
RAAAHOWThe Centipede rears upwards, and then down.
It slowly evaporates from Brie's grip, turning into a black mist that blows away in the wind
Posey's Turn
>>183357It would be better to have more precise positioning, but I'm not certain where much of the party is
The creatures are clearly targeting Posey especially, and also Silver, as the two are on opposed sides.
I fucked up again, forgive my transgressions.
>>183363Silver: "Then kill them already instead of making more of them!"
>>183364Wait, so the centipede is gone? That's what I was going to attack.
>>183367There's another centipede
What is in Posey's melee range?
>>183369One starfish. Let's say the other centipede
"Please stab it quickly, Ive seen plenty enough hentai to not want to be adjacent to,... this for too long."
Posey's unseen servant opens her back, and out pops her secret weapon: the Dread's that the demon priest created for her out of the severed arms of the diamond dogs.
They were technically supposed to be advanced to max HD, but I forgot to mod their statblocks, so whatever
https://www.realmshelps.net/monsters/block/Dread%7Calpha%7CD%7CUndeadOne arms itself with her halberd, the other takes her sword. They both take readied actions to attack the fat guys as they materialize.
>>183368Posey Attacks the Centipede with her charnel touch as a weapon attack, using her chill touch.
This Activates her Frightful Presence, DC 21 for all enemies or be shaken
Touch Attack
[1d20+4 = (19+4) = 23]Damage
[1d8+1 = (6+1) = 7] [1d6 = 1]This triggers a DC 18 Fortitude save or take 1 points of Str damage
As a free action, she demoralizes it
Intimidate
[1d20+17 = (6+17) = 23]Bippity boppity boop!
>>183372Before you do, I would like to gently remind you that you are in the presence of creatures who would be very much freaked out by this display, and bluffing her way out of it would be very difficult to do.
>>183373Blah! I'll explain it later. We're fighting Lovecraftian horrors rn.
Silver's turn
>>183372GAAAH!
It recoils
>>183374>>183373And the fact that she spoke Abyssal right in front of everyone isn't a concern?
>>183375No, Im with him. You can go super saoyan when its needed
>>183376I didnt say hes making good choices, but Brie doesnt understand abysssal
>>183376>AbyssalI use Sanscrit for Infernal, like when she was petting the Yeth Hound
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/2R4GVkLys4w>>183377>super saoyanI'm only warning up
>>183376Posey's turn is over.
There's a bunch of saving throws to make though.
>>183364Kira: "I...I got one? I got one!"
>>183376Well, neither Silver nor Kira even know what that language was, so they wouldn't know that it's the language of demons or what have you.
Power Attack: Silver centers himself on his connection to the earth, and channels the strength of the world into an almighty blow to hopefully end this starfish's existence in this world. "
Leave this realm and return to your own!"
He raises his sword, and brings it down with enough might to crack and shatter the earth beneath the starfish.
Attack:
[1d20+6 = (14+6) = 20]Damage:
[2d6+20 = (6+20) = 26] Cavaliere smiles subtly as his shot blows one of the aberrations away into dust, but this lasts only a moment as he scowls when he sees Posey turn into some kind of infernal Transformer.
>>183376>And the fact that she spoke Abyssal right in front of everyone isn't a concern?It could've been an elective in high school. Sanskrit for infernal is quite suitable.
What would we use for Celestial? Ancient Celtic?Silver, Dust, please don't sleep yet. We need you.
>>183382>TransformerShe looks the same.
Well, she's got her Frightful Presence up, so she's got the fiery red aura of supernatural pain and fear, but otherwise she hasn't changed.
Dust's turn
One Starfish and one Centipede remains
>>183379Are you trying to argue "acshually it's not abyssal, it's a different language"? Because you used the lawful-aligned language to communicate with an entity explicitly described as chaotic?
>>183381Chyik yik yah!The sword slices right through the starfish, severing it in half. It starts to evaporate before it falls to the ground.
THE FUCK IS LAGGING EEEEE
>>183385>Because you used the lawful-aligned language to communicate with an entity explicitly described as chaotic?Yeah... I probably should have used Abyssal...
What language should I use to type abyssal?
>>183376Dust doesn't know wtf abyssal is. Hell, idk what the fuck abyssal is.
>>183385Dust looks around, trying to figure out what we're even dealing with. I'm gonna try to roll knowledge (religion) to see if Dust can determine anything about the nature of these creatures or their summoning. Outsiders? Undead? Cult summoned? Who knows!
[1d20+9 = (18+9) = 27]While he's trying to recognize anything, he casts bless with a short prayer to Aztarte for his allies.
Everyone but me is now getting +1 on all attacks and all saves against fear.
>>183388>Everyone but meBless includes you too. You are your own ally.