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>>183388He's never seen these creatures before. And yet he knows what sort of things they are:
Aberrations. Beloved by no god of earth.
Mala takes aim at the remaining centipede, shooting twice with his shotgun
[1d20+8 = (12+8) = 20]
[2d10 = 20]
[1d20+8 = (16+8) = 24]
[2d10 = 11]
>>183390Oh word?
>>183389Noted and filed under "maybe useful one day"
>>183391Oh lovely, abberations. Are those creatures from another plane or purely summoned creatures that don't exist unless some fuckwad makes them? Dust doesn't care, they're not undead and are thus boring. I on the other hoof, am curious and don't know.
Skreee
The second centipede disappears, but two more creatures materialize
They vaguely resemble black quadrupeds with long forelegs, and two limbs that stick out of the upper shoulders.
In a way, they are like jet black ponies with no visible eyes, a head that hinges open at the very back, and wings that are bare bones, with mouths at the end of the bones
They Shriek
Initiate for the newcomers
[1d20 = 9]
Were any of the aberrations affected by Posey's Frightful Presence?
Was the centipede weakened by there Str-draining Chill Touch, or effectively demoralized?
I'm a pure debuff build. I need to know if my attacks are effective.
Is there food in the dead centipede Brie has? Will anyone carrybit?
>>183402The one principally affected died quickly
>>183336A Starfish attacks Silver with three tentacles
[1d20+4 = (17+4) = 21][1d4+2 = (1+2) = 3][1d20+4 = (10+4) = 14][1d4+2 = (2+2) = 4][1d20+4 = (19+4) = 23][1d4+2 = (4+2) = 6] >>183401Oh, those were the ones my minions had readied actions to attack as they materialized (so flat-footed)
Longsword
[1d20+5 = (4+5) = 9][1d8+4 = (4+4) = 8]Halberd
[1d20+4 = (7+4) = 11][1d10+2 = (4+2) = 6]Both the Dread's have a Frightful Presence
Creatures with 3 HD or less need to roll two DC 12 Will saves or be shaken
Note that all fear effects stack, so shaken escalates to frightened, then panicked, then cowering if they fail consecutive saves
>>183402Something tells me these demonic creatures are likely immune to the kind of demoralization that Posey tends to rely on.
>>183403I think the creatures disappear into shadows when they're killed.
>>183401>>183388Kira would be frightened, but she feels a strange sort of comfort from a source she can not recognize. She attributes it to Ouroboros. Having slain a centipede probably helps with her confidence.
>>183404>>183405"ARRRGGGH! ОТСТАНЬ ОТ МЕНЯ!"
[1d20+9 = (20+9) = 29] >>183407>Something tells me these demonic creatures are likely immune to the kind of demoralization that Posey tends to rely onWhy would they be immune to fear?
>20Nice
>>183407Silver rips the tentacles right off of him
>>183406All miss, and they are unshaken
>>183408They have more than 3 hit die Without a map, Brie would.Tumble/fly around the closest one and lock up/grape the fuethest one
[1d20 = 2]
>>183410>They have more than 3 hit dieDarn. This is what I get for neglecting to make those 6 HD statblocks.
Oh well.
The Dreads take 5 ft steps back in a defensive stance floating around Posey
>>183412Brie does
not succeed in tumbling past the two new black figures in front of Posey
I suppose he has a standard action.
>>183412Assumed failure, Bries turn os finished
Kira's turn, and then Posey
>>183410Confidence in herself restored, Kira draws three more arrows, targets one of these new creatures, and fires them in rapid succession.
Rapid Shot #1:
[1d20+10 = (4+10) = 14][1d8+6 = (1+6) = 7]Rapid Shot #2:
[1d20+10 = (10+10) = 20][1d8+6 = (5+6) = 11]Rapid Shot #3:
[1d20+5 = (1+5) = 6][1d8+6 = (8+6) = 14] Posey's turn
>>183418The second shot hits, lodging in its "neck." But the first one bounces against its "skin," and the third goes wide.
>>183418>>183419Kira: "Dang it! I hate it when that happens...hope I can find that arrow again..."
>>183419Posey's Dreads flank the starfish that threatens Posey, wailing on it with their weapons
Longsword
[1d20+7 = (19+7) = 26][1d8+4 = (8+4) = 12]Halberd
[1d20+4 = (15+4) = 19][1d10+2 = (9+2) = 11]Posey follows up with a Charnel Chill Touch boop
Touch
[1d20+4 = (17+4) = 21]Damage
[1d8+1 = (2+1) = 3][1d6 = 5]Demoralize
[1d20+17 = (18+17) = 35]DC 18 for Str damage. DC 21 for frightful presence. Opposed check for intimidate.
>>183421Rolling to confirm threat with the longsword
[1d20+7 = (20+7) = 27] >>183422Fuck yeah
>>183422Fuck yeah, 24 damage!
If the crit kills the starfish, pls redirect the remaining attacks to the next nearest opponent.
Cavaliere performs rapid shot and shoots the pony-like aberration closest to him with two shots in quick succession, at -2 penalty.
[1d20+7 = (11+7) = 18][2d6 = 9][1d20+7 = (18+7) = 25][2d6 = 12]>tfw no ranks in dungeoneering>>183388Check'd and thanks
>>183421>>183423I'm going to assume you're talking about the two black pony figures in front of Posey. Are they targeting the same one, and is it the one Kira hit?
>>183425Bang BangCavaliere hits the starfish in front of Silver, and it hisses as if leaking air. It evaporates.
>>183426They flank one, and if the first attack kills it, the other attacks the other. Same with Posey.
>>183426Not the starfish, the pony figures. Well, one of them.
One pony figure remaining near Posey, and one starfish remaining in front of Silver
>>183428Ah. Fair enough. Cavaliere hits it. It does not evaporate.
>>183427>>183423Posey's combined attacks cause one of the figures to evaporate.
>>183429Silver: "Go back to Tartarus!"
Power Attack: Maintaining his connection to the earth, Silver raises his sword in the air, focuses all of the strength he can muster, and brings it down in another almighty overhead strike on the remaining starfish aberration. The mist around Silver and the starfish is parted with the force of the attack, and the ground again cracks and shatters where the blade lands.
[1d20+7 = (15+7) = 22][2d6+20 = (7+20) = 27] >>183431The second roll was actually damage, sorry about that.
>>183429Does it appear frightened by Posey's demoralization and frightful presence?
>>183216"Alright," Vir says and bumps her hooves together while rising on her two hooves , causing a meaty slap to resonate through the room. In truth, Vir is a bit nervous at the prospect of talking to a bunco of strange ponies, so she trying to convince herself more than anypny else. "I will simply go door to door, talk with the entire neighberhood, the police, the anarchists, and the Blackhooves, then I'll return."
Dust's turn
>>183430+20 damage?!?!
Well...
The starfish is sliced straight in half, curving in like a dead spider in the seconds before it is scattered to the wind
>>183435I think there's still a Shadow pony left?
If so, dust readies his flail, runninf at his target and heaving the flail overhead to come down on his target
Attack
[1d20+10 = (9+10) = 19]Dmg
[1d10+6 = (4+6) = 10] >>183436Kow!It shrieks at Dust, recoiling as the entity, shot twice by bullet and once by arrow, is now hit by a flail. The flail seems to crack its hide, until it stumbles back and falls to the ground
It evaporates on the ground
>>183437How many enemies are left?
>>183437With the current enemies defeated, Kira quickly retrieves her arrows. Silver breathes in and out heavily, having expended a lot of stamina in those two strikes.
No enemies remain visible, as the light above dims
>>183434"Uh... Well you don't have to talk to that many ponies. I'm not sure I'd want to talk to anarchists or the blackhooves... but uh, your enthusiasm is much appreciated."
She tries to move forward, and scritch behind Vir's ears
>>183438That's all that threaten
>>183440Posey screams into the ether
"I KNOW YOU ARE STILL OUT THERE! SHOW YOURSELF, TRAVELLER!" "well, thats just good business," is there tasty foodsuffs feom the pede?
>>183435>+20 damage?!?!Power attack is really good
Cavaliere takes a moment to reload his revolver and stow it away in his revolver. He also pulls out a much smaller pistol with two short barrels from the hem of his pants and checks to make sure it is loaded before putting it away.
He moves closer to Silver and Posey and asks,
"Are you two alright? Those monstrosities were in your faces." >>183441Silver: "Please do not taunt extradimensional entity too much, we still have village to go to and ponies to save."
>>183443It very much is.
Silver: "Yes, just little banged up from couple of those tentacles. I have been hurt worse. Thank you for your concern, my friend."
"No apparent supernatural powers, bodies dissolving into protomatter... These were minor manifestation of the starspawn.That means the master is still out there!"
>>183443"I am fine."
>>183444"We either defeat it now, or we defeat it later. Better to fight it on our terms."
>>183441Pedes r like scallops. Delicious w/ spring onionand butter
>>183446They dissolved into black ethereal nothingness.
>>183441Posey's words
do not result in another spawned monster
>>183442There is not. He had it in his grasp, and then like that, it was gone with the wind
>>183444>>183445Mala moves up near Posey and Silver
>>183449There's rendered whale blubber elsewhere
>>183443>stow it away in his revolverholster
>>183442>>183446These are not Rain World centipedes and you cannot eat them.
>>183445"You're familiar with these creatures? They're unlike anything found in the wild and seem magical in origin, but I can't place from where. Silver is right, for once the communists aren't a likely threat and they might be some help.">>183449>>183450>>183451Brie could just ask Cavaliere if he's hungry.
>>183452"Have u tried feastables? I hear theure rly popular,"
>>183450>>183445Silver gives Mala some pets when he comes up to him. "Excellent shots, Mala! I am very glad to have you with us." While he continues to pet Mala, he addresses Posey. "We know where their master is, on Kostroma. Idiot communists brought it onto ship from Skynavia to bring home to study, and he dominated mind of most everypony on that ship. We need to find those remaining Stalliongraders and come up with plan to end this thing. You heard what it said through Sea Stone. If it manages to free that ship and reaches Stalliongrad, there is no telling how far it will go to assimilate everything into its consciousness."
>>183450>Posey's words do not result in another spawned monsterPosey curses into the void, chomping at the bit to fight the master of these monsters.
"Coward..."
>Mala moves up near Posey and SilverPosey pets Mala to soothe her frustration.
"I saw that hit you made with your shotgun. It was very fearsome."
She gives him a bone
>>183452>You're familiar with these creatures? Vaguely. Confronting horrors from the Cerebrosis periphery was part of my training. They are incalculably diverse creatures, but they are universally bent on corrupting all around them with their madness..."
She trails off, seemingly reliving a nasty memory
>>183455Ima slap u when his works
>>183440Vir grins wrly.
"To be honest, I don't really like talking with ponies in general, because when you wear your heart on a sleeve," Vir says and flaps the hem of her cloak. Her tan cloak that has Celstia's cutie mark cover its cape and once again a smaller sun over her hoodie. "I see happy faces too of course but sometimes I prefer ponies eye-rolls to their anger. But, uhh, yeah, I'm visting the Blackhooves to ask for my sister. If anyone would know her where-a-bowt, it probably be 'em."
>>183455"Cerebrosis, you say? Let's hear about all this at the village. It'll be a more secure vantage point, if this 'Commissar' has made use of it."He is ready to leave when the other party members are.
We did kill things, and quickly.
Suck it GM (he knows)
>>183454>>183455Mala smiles, closes his eyes, and opens his mouth, letting his tongue hang out as he receives dual pets.
When posey gives him another bone, he quickly chomps on it, breaking the bone and eating it quickly.
>>183457It almost did this time. 1d2
>>183453"What are those?" Mala asks
>>183458"Oh. Well, that makes sense. I doubt they'll tell you, but for a sister, it's worth a try." After a moment, she speaks again
"And thank you, again, for your help."
>>183463Kira returns to the party, her quivers fully filled up again. Silver looks over the entire party.
Silver: "Okay everyone, let us find those Stalliongrader survivors. Kira, take point."
Kira: "Aye aye, captain!"
Survival: Kira leads the group through the fog, continuing to be on the alert for any more aberrations they may encounter.
[1d20+11 = (9+11) = 20] >>183469Having second thoughts [...] yes, its moldy
>>183467It's kind of a narrow path. Kira believes she finds what is the beginning of the ridge of the hill, with the ruined remains of a stone wall just on the left side of it
>>183469Mala is intrigued
"Food that
isn't rotten?"
He starts to wag his tail
>>183470"Oh..."
>>183471Silver: "You have had food that was not rotten before. Remember when we went to that restaurant and you had octopus? Or earlier this morning when I made you alligator steaks?"
Kira: "I think we're getting close!"
>>183463>worth a tryAn image of an eye-rolling but genuinely smiling filly unicorn pass through Vir's mind.
"Yes, she is worth it," she says.
Vir dives in and nuzzles Heather's neck.
>>183461>Cerebrosic"The Cerebrosic Periphery. The back of the mind. The place where mortal perception intersects with the madness of the far realm. The peripheral is the Near Realm, a place of perversion and abstraction, through which we can contact and be contacted by horrors from beyond the unknowable void...."
".... It is the most vile, disgusting, horrible place imaginable. My master attached loathesome creatures to my skull and let them have their way with my mind to throw me into that vile jungle of misery, so that I could experience what infinite Dread truly felt like. I can still remember the omnipresent slime, the writhing 'grass', the gravitational distortions pulling me every which way, the lurking nightmares that prowled in the corners of the mind, leaping through the dimensional boundaries to latch themselves to my barrel and fuse themselves to my skin and prope their feelers up my nose and into my brain...! Master would not let me return to the realm of sanity until I had grown accustomed to it long enough to learn from the experience."
>>183473"Tee he he"
Heather scratches the back of the
silly filly big mare's ears
"Anything for a sister. I understand that emotion. I would if I could, too."
>>183472Mala to Silver:
"Well yes, but you can't have alligator, or octopus, or" licking his lips "zebra every day. These... monsters? Is that what they are called? They just disappeared. You can't even eat them."
>>183474Ow, the edge. I like your descriptive ability.Cavaliere only stares as she explains, withholding comment as he focuses on the path ahead.
>>183477[1d20+8 = (17+8) = 25]>>183476Silver: "Something tells me alligators and octopi would probably taste better than demon starfish and demon centipedes."
I gotta sleep soon.
I'm free all day tomorrow.
Feel free to carry on without me though.
>>183479"It will, I know. But there's only demon starfish around it seems. All I've had to eat since we left is bones. I am looking forward to being able to eat pony flesh again, or better yet, hippogriff." He looks upwards in ecstasy as he recalls some memory, then looks back to Silver
"I know ponies don't like it when I do that, but I feel like this whole thing we do here, well, that you do, is like a whole special exception to the pony world. Like, the pony society has rules. Very basic rules like you don't kill other ponies, and especially ponies with power. Then I saw you imprison my two superiors. You shot and killed the zebras that bullied me. And you killed that rich pony who was lord over us all. And you got praised for it. Paid for it. You fucked that griffin. You were loved even by the police for it.
Much of my life I thought that the ponies didn't like me because I was a kind of monster. The way I behaved made me monstrous to them. I thought I kind of deserved it and needed to be separate from the pony society. That is why I was with Sweat's society. I thought I could be accepted there, even though I really wasn't. Then I saw you, and I realized that it was okay to be violent, or carnivorous. It was okay to be a monster. Because monsters could be loved too. I could be loved too. By ponies."
Mala wags his tail
>>183479Kira sees something galloping through the mist. It's kind of low, and big around.
It's coming towards them.
>>183484You want me to stay up for this encounter?
I know people are sleep, I'm just gonna respond to Mala before we end up in the next encounter.
>>183483Silver gives some more pets to Mala, smiling at his loyal friend. "You
are loved,
and accepted. And it is true, society has certain rules that you are expected to follow - and usually for good reason - but when someone decides to break those rules for their own gain to detriment of others, you need someone who is willing to break those same rules as well for good reason to keep others safe and happy."
>>183476Vir pushes back into the hoof with pleased closed eyes. Then she realize the meaning of Heather's last words and sad look passes by her face.
She walks over to Flowercup and raise her hoof. She stops, hovering over Flowercup's head. A memory passes her mind's eye. A mare. She smiles down at her filly self. She reaches out toward her but hesitates. 'May I touch you?' 'Of course, you can. I luv u! Mother Justiney.'
"Sorry," Vir says. "I didn't ask before. May I?"
Yes, I literally added Lunchly (it says it on my inventory, including the mold) to my character sheet just so I could make a joke about it mid-game.
>wants to kill more
>>183489The beige mare closes her eyes and smiles, ready to receive her hoof
"You may."
>>183488Though masked and thereby expressionless, Brie nods appreciatively on hearing this
>>183476Dust stops wishfully looking at the deadish grass in the area as he hears "zebra." He freezes, and his ears immediately start swiveling more than usual.
>>183482reeeeee
"An excellent show of force everypony. Since we have a moment, I have been meaning to ask,... does anypony know what the hell we are dealing with? First there was that strange beast our beloved whaling captain mackicked into being somehow, and now theres these, well I certainly don't know what you would call them but they're certainly not stalliongradii!"
>>183503Rolling a base intelligence check for Brie to kinda maybe try to idk,... think I guess
[1d20+2 = (17+2) = 19] >>183503Dust shakes his head
"Trials like these I have not seen before
Though their rumors have traveled our lore
I do not wholey know what is in store
But a small bit from legends I can relay
Summoners, conjurers, witches, and cults
Appear to be the cards fate to us has dealt
Aberration's attacks are what we have felt
I should say we no longer our mission delay
Vile forces are working against this shore
To summon these monsters we abhor
I would say the source is to blame for more
But here I do not want to be another day."
As Dust mentions "for more" he gestures towards the area they left the griffons and that one pony that was talking nonsense. Where are they anyways?
>>183503Posey just mentioned that they're aberrant monsters of pure madness from beyond the realm of insanity who won't rest until everything else is just as twisted and insane as them.
"Interlopers from beyond the void. Some refer to these sorts of creatures as 'beachgoers', from their resemblance to loathsome sea creatures and their dual-worldly nature."
She gestures towards the shore
"Think of the Far Realm as the ocean, and our reality as this island. The Cerebrotic Periphery is the place where they intersect, like a beach, where creatures of land and meet and hunt one another. It is also known as the mire, for its swampy and foul appearance, like a wetland."
>>183506>>183505Brie is neither enthusiastic nor particularly receptive to the idea of things that have no throat - or.perhaps too many - to cut
>>183507They're not immune to crits for the most part. You should be able to sneak Attack them.
But they tend to save psychic powers, so watch out for your feeble Will Save
I'm available all day today, btw
Really excited to purge some xeno filth.