This RPG is set in the land of Equestria after it has been conquered and split between the Changelings and a foriegn fascist nation. It is based in large part on the Equestria at War mod for Hearts of Iron 4, and uses D&D 3.5 mechanics
4 of the group have taken a job to clear a site of a future real estate development of undead. They seem to have stumbled upon a centuries old evil long forgotten by Equestria. Meanwhile, Ash has discovered foals from the order of Saint Prancis orphanage practicing dark magic and sacrifices in the woods, while Iron is having not-so-pleasant dreams
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>>77264She's looking for any kind of aura, including faint or lingering ones.
[1d20+3 = 10]>>77263Neither paralyzed nor infected, Silver may proceed with the Trip. The bite cracks through Silver's foreleg
Roll opposed strength for the trip
[1d8+3 = 6]>>77264A few auras, largely emanating from magical ponies
>>77267Silver is able to pull the Sargent down to the ground
Rolling damage on Silver
[1d20+3 = 7]>>77266That's it. Scorching ray. We finish this and take everyone out of this pit to heal at some hospital.
>>77268....
Anything else? A something that might indicate a recently read tomb?
Sister Ash continues her search.
[1d20+8 = 19]
Onyx decides he's had enough of this shit, and brings down the ax Halberd.
>>77270Ash has yet to go inside a room. The only distinct magical auras are faint and come from three unicorns, two who seem to levitate or do things and the needy colt
>>77271Maybe when the enemy attempts to get up his next turn, which will be after onyx
>>77272No
[1d20+5 = 9]>>77274Sister Ash disregards the minor Transmutation auras from the Unicorns and proceeds into her room, her dog sniffing about the place like a bomb-sniffer. Detect Magick still active.
Guess I'll roll perception.
[1d20+9 = 23]>>77274Wait, the needy colt? Why is he magick?
Rolling Spellcraft to discern his school of his aura.
[1d10+8 = 16]>>77273Onxy discovers that he is damned lucky that this opponent is on the ground
>>77269The scorching ray fails to make contact, as a prone opponent is harder to hit from a distance
>>77276I'll just assume for the sake of argument that Ash bothered to ask a sister which of the dorms was the filly's rather than simply walking into a random dorm room out of ignorance
She sees multiple beds and a couple chests and dressers. Perhaps 8 beds in this room, 4 on each side. Each separate
[1d6 = 4]>>77277It's a light amount of magic that belongs to the colt itself rather than any sort of arcane or divine magic
>>77278Rolling more damage
>>77277The DC for that is 15 plus spell level. If not a spell, it's 15 plus half the caster level
>>77279But what school of magick?
>Transmutation, Illusion, enchantment, etc. >>77281Supernatural
The colt raises his hooves up to Ash
>>77275>>77262The Sargent tries to stand up
Onyx and Silver have attacks of opportunity
>>77282No school? Hmmmm
Sister Ash narrows her eyes as she makes direct eye contact with the colt for a moment.
Then she turns to one of the Sisters
"Watch this one for now. He has something to hide."
Then she turns and enters the filly's room to continue her search.
[1d20+8 = 13][1d20+8 = 10]>>77283Combat Reflexes: Silver has officially had enough. With a primal war cry, he brings his greatsword down on the Sargent, multiple times.
First two hits included, second two in the next post. >>77284The colt looks basically like this, but with a horn instead of wings and thin green irises. He raises his hooves for a hug
>>77285>>77286Yeah, I don’t think that’s how that works
>>77290Why'd I say INT? DEX is what I meant
>>77287Sister Ash has already gone into the room, although she glances at the colt suspiciously one more time before she passes the threshold.
Does she sense any auras in the filly's room?
>>77289Those are supposed to be separate attacks of opportunity, provoked by separate events.
>>77285>>77286Combat reflexes lets you make more than one if they provoke more than one, but not like 4 for the same provocation
>>77288Onyx fails to pierce
>>77293If there are any books in that room with questionable content, the content in and of itself is not magical, because she can't sense shit
[1d20+1 = 20]>>77296Well, I guess I'll just have to keep rolling search until I eventually find it..
>>77297It helps if you get dogpiled by multiple enemiy trying to grapple you.
>>77298Inside a drawer under clothing, there is a booklet...
Incantations to Mar [1d20+6 = 11]>>77302Rolling knowledge (religion), to see if I recognize it.
>>77303She doesn't know much, except that the name of the god on the cover is a part of the griffon pantheon - a god of death, blood, and evil. The book itself is in a foreign language
>>77305Sister Ash leaves the room with the book and shows it to Sister Marey, then to the filly.
"Who gave this to you?"
Silver's greatsword pierces through the hardened flesh of the Sargent's neck, goes up through it, and cuts in two the strap of the helmet
The helmet falls off the head of the creature, and the creature falls down to the ground. After a year of war and six months of trotting around a dark cavern, The Sargent knows peace at last
>>77308Well that's disappointing
>>77310"... Griffons at the docks have them"
>>77311Sister Ash gives out a sigh.
>When you wanted to sleep, but you gotta wake up in the middle of the night to stop kids from summoning devil'sThen she turns to Marey.
"I found what she's been reading."
Then she looks back at the filly
"Do you have anything else to hide?"
>>77311Well, sorry to disappoint.Silver, still in a state of rage, just stands there, panting heavily from exhaustion.
>>77312It probably would have been better now if Silver HAD died. At least he would have gone down fighting, instead of being like this. >>77313"You found the book, didn't you? You saw us in the forest. What else do you want?"
>>77315Reeeee I accidentally deleted my text again!
Sister Ash sighs, it being too late at night for her to give a pep-talk to a foal about magical philosophy.
"If you wanted to learn magick, you certainly won't find anything of value from a street peddler.." she begins
"And you definitely won't find what you're looking for offering tribute to evil creatures. Magick is ingrained in morality: conjuring evil is always an evil act, and evil can only be used to spread evil.." she continues
"You don't know it yet, but the thing you're looking for won't be found in a book like this."
Explaining things to kids is hard...
>>77320Isn’t that suppose to make you train harder and not give up immediately? It would make sense if he was a level 20 fighter that couldn’t fight, but you are a low level. It’s part of the leveling process to encounter lots of enemies that pose a challenge to not just one player, but all the players’ strength put together.
>>77325It’s not like this is natural circumstances. This is a war vet being enhanced with evil magic and unholy powers. This is a new world of fighting, one that will launch Silver into a warrior status into the stratosphere. Being the one to slay the dead? Not even magic and being brought back to life can stop Silver from putting you back in your place. He will be feared all throughout the city.
Alright, immediate battle is over
>>77321The fillie looks like she wants to talk and respond, but keeps her head down
>>77330It’s bad luck to make a mare upset.
>>77331Unless Cauldron is a changeling, it's unlikely
>>77331Also, did you call the GM a woman?
>>77329Sister Ash kneels down on her forehooves, speaking softly.
"There's no need to hold back now.. Say what it is you're feeling."
>>77336Come on Onyx, women don't exist here. But it would explain his lack of bant resistance.
>>77332>>77334GM made a mare for you. Just saying that making her out to be a villain was not good luck for your character
>>77335How many ponies know about the undead? Is it common to be encountered in this setting? This isn’t typical DND setting remember
>>77338No one sucks more than me anon. Trust me.
>>77340But I was clearly rooting for the dragon pucci so I don't really think it was THE OTP here
>>77327Bitch fuckin' please. Silver is one of only two characters to deal
any damage to the ghast at all. Dark Star failed to damage it at all
thanks possibly to an unwillingness to duel wield or double tap. Spark got fucked over with shitty dice rolls, and was also unwilling to shoot it with his laser. The only reason Ash could kill a CR3 so quickly was 1. she had two extremely powerful spells in reserve, and she used both of them in a single fight 2. I let her get a bonus round to try to hit it before rolling initiative.
>>77337"I will not be somepony else's plaything"
>>77332I can't say I understand this post
Anyways, I think I'm gonna go do something else for a bit, clear my mind. Doesn't do my any good being like this.
>>77346You don't really need to. It's just guesswork you don't need to pay attention to.
>>77344You will never get with your crush now. If you let Cauldron down easy, maybe. But now you have to redeem yourself before your karma can balance.
>>77347We all were rooting for you the whole time buddy. Please feel better.
>>77340>How many ponies know about the undead?Knowledge (religion) is thr skill that concerns undead. It's a train only skill, so only Clerics, Adepts, Bards, Wizards, and Expert NPCs would have extensive knowledge of them.
That doesn't mean a normal person can't take 10 on an untrained intelligence check upon seeing a 1 HD zombie and scream "Ahh! It's a zombie!"
>>77351Also, Paladins. Especially Paladins.
Paladin is basically the anti-necro class.
>>77349>implying that the GM will not try to emasculate/cut his dick and balls off Iron to tone down his obliviousness and dickishnessComr on Spark, he can't change that much without some justification.
>>77346"Of course you won't." Sister Ash replies
>>77356She lays down on the ground, and tears form in her eyes. Then she lays her head down flat to the ground, ears back
>>77357Sister Ash picks her up and hugs her
"There, there..."
>>77358Is this the first hug she's gotten?
She is definitely crying now
>>77359First hug tonight, 1st one since the Warehouse.
Sister Ash pats her back, cradling her gently
"It's okay now..."
>>77360Crying pretty heavily now
"But it's not"
>>77361"What you did was wrong, but you know that now..." She says, stroking the filly's mane
"We all make mistakes.. What's important is that we learn from them.."
>>77362"They will punish me now... But we still won't be safe"
>>77363Fug! Are we talking like Catholic school punishment? Shid..."I think you could use some extra time to think about what you did for now.. but we all forgive you.."
She pauses for a bit, somewhat unsure how to answer to the last part
"... We're all here to protect you. Everypony here tries their best.. Sometimes things can get hard, but what's important is that we trust each other.." she continues
>>77364>>77364"How could I trust?"
The fillie motions over to a pair of dorm halls that are empty