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
>>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
I am feeling much better now.
>>77370They should be, though Onyx is always in and out it seems.
>>77368Good, you can still recover. Keep it up, each combat is experience that will be useful for other D&D games.
>>77370I am
Seems Ash is preparing a complex and carefully crafted speech to inspire the filly and make her feel safe.
>>77365Sister Ash looks over at the rooms with a solemn expression, before turning back.
"Sometimes things happen that we can't control, but we still need to try our best to help each other when we can." She muses, hoping the filly understands
"... Some if your friends can't be here, but you still have friends with you; the Sisters too. Can you try your best to trust them, for your friends sake?"
>>77380"But why would I, if they could not protect us before?"
>>77379Only combat really needs every player
>>77381"Trust isn't something that helps us feel safe.. it helps us stick together despite of danger.." she says, still cradling her
"Try to have faith in your friends, and yourself as well..."
>>77383She almost smiles at the cradling
"But we were sticking together in the forest"
>>77386"
Without nearly cursing yourselves.." Sister Ash adds
>>77388I wonder how she is so confident to be able to control fucking flaming dogs that come from Tartarus itself without consequences.
>>77388This lil' shid just made it bite me. She had no way of telling of she could tell it to stop biting.
And there's no way a ritual that invokes an effect like that doesn't have some kind of horrific consequence
(I'd be broken otherwise)>This is what Sister Ash would be thinking right now as she speaks"But were you completely aware of how that Conjuration worked, or the consequences of it..?" She impores
She continues
"Tell me.. What kind of great and powerful spirit is satisfied with the just the life of injured rabbit, but doesn't want
something more in return..?" She says, her hoof pointing towards the filly's chest
>>77389She had no way of knowing that. The hellhound did what any hellhound would do: attack good-aligned creatures.
The lil' shid is just cocky.
>>77390*It would be broken
>>77390"I thought you knew all of this already?"
>>77392"I knew, but I'm certain you didn't; because if you did, you wouldn't have been so quick to put yourself and your friends in danger." She replies
>>77393"How much do you know about infernal magic?"
She asks
>>77394"Experience." Sister Ash replies flatly
"I've seen enough if it to know that it's nothing for ponies to be fooling around with, let alone foals."
>>77395The fillie does not respond
Ash recalls that the same fillie suspected that Ash would use her and the other foals as ritual sacrifices in dark magic
>>77396Said the pot to the kettle...
"Black magick is no laughing matter.."
"I've seen it destroy ponies, who didn't know any better than to try it themselves."
>>77397".... So is being a helpless foal..."
She says this quietly
>>77397Why don't you give her the idea of summoning good creatures for her? It sounds okay to increase safety.
>>77399The only good-aligned summon I have atm are Satyrs and Giant Eagles. It'll just piss off the nuns.
>>77398"There are better ways to avoid helplessness than playing with shifty dark magick." She says, boldly
"Now enough of this. You're all far past your bedtimes. You'll hear more about it in the morning." She says, as she places the filly down.
>>77400She lowers herself down again
Sister Marery
"This is all quite dreadful, but we have prayer in the morning"
The colt: *hooves extended out* "Hug?"
>>77401Sister Ash stares at the colt for several seconds with narrowed eyes.
"... Sure." She replies
>>77404Sister Ash isn't one to deny kindness to somepony who asks for it, even if she feels somewhat suspicious.
>>77406*Cuddles some more, because why not?*
>>77407*The colt is cuddled more*
The fillie returns to her bed, and sulks
>>77408Sister Ash "places" (tears off and hurls) the colt into his bed, before she returns to her own chamber for some much-needed rest.
Because no one else is going to comment on the fight...
Silver stands over the corpse of the Sargent, greatsword still drawn. He looks and sounds absolutely exhausted from the fight, sweating profusely and breathing heavily. "That...t-that was...that was hell of fight..."
>>77409And thus her midnight escapade ends unceremoniously
>>77410He's dead now. The smell is actually less bad now, although part of The Sargent is covered in vomit
>>77411"What...what even was that thing..." He doesn't want to get much closer to check, all things considered. Though he doesn't have much time to actually consider it before all of the pain, previously pushed out of mind by his anger, hits him all at once like a freight train.
>>77412Yeah, I know, it's a shocker to me too.
>>77410Onyx falls over
"Wake me up when it's time to leave"
>>77417Silver is too busy falling on his side and letting out a long, low wail of complete pain and anguish to be worried about Onyx right now.
>>77418I try to help Silver out of the room.
>>77417"I say it's time to go. We need to head to a doctor."
>>77419Onyx helps spark move Silver
>>77419>>77420He grunts in pain at every movement, as he tries to fight against Spark and Onyx's assistance. "I am...fine! I just...let me get..." He fumbles through his saddlebags as best as he can for his first-aid kit and a healing potion.
>>77424Oof. Can Dark Star save the day? Hope Spark doesn't fall somewhere.
>>77427That's how it is with dice. 1=Death
>>77427Silver is very successful in shaking off Shimmer, and very unsuccessful in shaking off Onyx
>>77429Silver still struggles as best as he can against him, to no avail. "I will be fine! Let me go!"
>>77432"Ease up. We need to make sure that thing didn't do anything to you. Those wounds are no joke."
A map of the positions thus far
>>77433>>77434"I feel fine. It was just pain, and pain has already passed." Despite him saying this, he still winces when he puts pressure on the hoof that got bitten. "We have job to do still! Let me patch myself up, then I will be fine to continue on."
>>77436"The job will still be done, but it can't be done by anypony at less than peak health. I can't risk you getting hurt worse. If they waited this long for the monsters to be removed, they can afford to wait a little longer. We must be sure you are perfectly fine to continue."
Remember to loot that armor.
>>77438"I'll stop making you lean on my shoulder when one of us is dead"
>>77438"I have medical supplies, I will be fine!"
>>77440Silver glares at Onyx. "I said I will be fine."
>>77439Ew, why would you want armor worn by an undead? The sidearm he had on him sounded more like loot, though.
>>77441If he's got armor, he might be wearing other stuff.
Besides, you can sell it. Worth at least two healing potions; maybe 4.
>>77441"If the medical supplies can heal you to my satisfaction, then you can continue. If not, I am the one that signed the paper to lead the mission, so I will take you to the hospital should it not."
>>77442Silver now starts to genuinely sound upset. "Let. Me. Go."
>>77443>there are places that would buy tattered puked-on flak jacketsOkay, that's definitely a stretch.>>77444He opens up his saddlebags, pulling out six Potions of Cure Light Wounds and one large, high-quality first-aid kit, fully-stocked.
>>77445Now, this is where I have to ask so questions. How many hit points does Silver have left and how many are restored through each of these items?
>>77445"You'll heal yourself first"
>>77446It matters what caster level the potions he bought were.
>>77446Each potion is a 1d8 + whatever caster level the potion maker was, which is somewhere between 1 and 5.>>77447"It is hard to do while you are holding onto me."
>>77449"Fine, but lean on my shoulder"
>>77451He grumbles a bit. "You know I can stand on my own? I am not that old yet."
>>77450"Alright. Take one of these potions."
>>77452"You're injured, and I'm not about to believe I'm the only one sick."
>>77311Dark Star inspects the corpse for anything of interest.
>>77455He raises an eyebrow as he looks at Onyx. "You are sick from that? I know that zombie reeked, but it was not that horrible a smell."
>>77457"So it didn't get you eh?"
>>77456The uniform is fairly damaged and covered in vomit. There is an EDF standard helmet that is dented and a strap cut. He is wearing a mundane flak jacket that is now mildly to moderately damaged.
1 Colt 911 sidearm pistol
1 Colt 911 magazine
1 30 round Limestone box magazine
A letter, folded up
A dog tag
1 grenade
1 knife
>>77458He shakes his head. "No. I think I held up rather well, in that regard. Even if he got me couple times before you came in to help."
>>77459>tfw Silver would have been the one to see what the Sarge had on him, had he not been dragged away by Spark and Onyx
>>77459Dark Star gathers it all and trys to find out where the rest of the stallion gang went.
>>77461They should all be immediately around him in the hallway
>>77461Can you even carry all of that?
>>77425>>77457>>77462>>77458"Hey Colts, the zombie had a colt on him."
>>77459Dark Star inspect the letter