Twilight, on the forest path
Several hours later the party have nearly reached the village.
The Cockatoo is dragging the wagon, the Echidna is pushing it and the injured Bunnies and the Hamster are inside the wagon. The rest are hanging around behind.
A crazy goblin runs out of the forest towards them, holding a spear and shaking a fist blazing with magical fire, screaming "I'll turn you into ash, my pretties!". From his side a huge wolf with burning red eyes leaps into battle, chasing the prettily-feathered Lyre bird (deciding for some obscure reason that the runty little chicken-boy might make good eating. Go figure.)
The Rogue Lizard artfully leaps onto the wagon and dives into melee with the Goblin, who promptly slaps him right in the neck with the magic fire and nearly drops him in one fell blow (crit.) The Goblin's burning hand goes out in a whisp of magic steam, the magic fire expended, much to the relief of the Rogue's now befouled underwear.
The Rogue responded with a multi-mixer vegomatic blur of artfully-coreographed double-sword attacks, missing spectacularly round-after-round, every, single, time, and getting himself stabbed hard in the guts with the goblin's spear. (Once again, the Rogue was within a minor wound of buying the farm. And we're running 1st level PCs with +20hp kickers. Whoah.)
The Cockatoo waddles over to help the Lizard Rogue, and joins in the comedy of errors by missing repeatedly.
Meanwhile Fancypant Ladysleeves the transvestite Sorcerer evades the wolf's jaws with a hop, skip and a prance, and summons a Dire Spider in a flash of eldritch power. The Spider, venom dripping from its viscous fangs, climbs up out of the ground, and is promptly eaten by the wolf as an entre. The Echidna winds up with his heavy flail and beats 7 shades of shit out of the wolf, who rolls over and farts in defeat.
The Goblin fumbles in his attempt to skewer the Rogue, and for the first time we roll d1000 on the Hackmaster fumble chart 8KK. The kids had their fingers crossed but the Goblin's belt broke, dropping his pants.
The Lizard begs for help but the Echidna wont budge, looking on, pouting. (The little guy running the Echidna had just rolled dice into the miniatures, got in trouble with his brother, and stormed off to his room yelling "I miss my turn!" The older boy wanted us to run the Echidna as an NPC to save his Lizard, but I said no dice. The Echidna is just as grumpy as his real-life Player.)
The Lyre Bird casts a Daze cantrip on the Goblin, and the Cockatoo finally connects with a crit, doing enough damage to kill the goblin outright, and 5 of his family members too, had they been standing close enough. He's dumb, and ugly, but when he does eventually connect it's pretty cool.
And on to the village . . .
The Cockatoo is dragging the wagon, the Echidna is pushing it and the injured Bunnies and the Hamster are inside the wagon. The rest are hanging around behind.
A crazy goblin runs out of the forest towards them, holding a spear and shaking a fist blazing with magical fire, screaming "I'll turn you into ash, my pretties!". From his side a huge wolf with burning red eyes leaps into battle, chasing the prettily-feathered Lyre bird (deciding for some obscure reason that the runty little chicken-boy might make good eating. Go figure.)
The Rogue Lizard artfully leaps onto the wagon and dives into melee with the Goblin, who promptly slaps him right in the neck with the magic fire and nearly drops him in one fell blow (crit.) The Goblin's burning hand goes out in a whisp of magic steam, the magic fire expended, much to the relief of the Rogue's now befouled underwear.
The Rogue responded with a multi-mixer vegomatic blur of artfully-coreographed double-sword attacks, missing spectacularly round-after-round, every, single, time, and getting himself stabbed hard in the guts with the goblin's spear. (Once again, the Rogue was within a minor wound of buying the farm. And we're running 1st level PCs with +20hp kickers. Whoah.)
The Cockatoo waddles over to help the Lizard Rogue, and joins in the comedy of errors by missing repeatedly.
Meanwhile Fancypant Ladysleeves the transvestite Sorcerer evades the wolf's jaws with a hop, skip and a prance, and summons a Dire Spider in a flash of eldritch power. The Spider, venom dripping from its viscous fangs, climbs up out of the ground, and is promptly eaten by the wolf as an entre. The Echidna winds up with his heavy flail and beats 7 shades of shit out of the wolf, who rolls over and farts in defeat.
The Goblin fumbles in his attempt to skewer the Rogue, and for the first time we roll d1000 on the Hackmaster fumble chart 8KK. The kids had their fingers crossed but the Goblin's belt broke, dropping his pants.
The Lizard begs for help but the Echidna wont budge, looking on, pouting. (The little guy running the Echidna had just rolled dice into the miniatures, got in trouble with his brother, and stormed off to his room yelling "I miss my turn!" The older boy wanted us to run the Echidna as an NPC to save his Lizard, but I said no dice. The Echidna is just as grumpy as his real-life Player.)
The Lyre Bird casts a Daze cantrip on the Goblin, and the Cockatoo finally connects with a crit, doing enough damage to kill the goblin outright, and 5 of his family members too, had they been standing close enough. He's dumb, and ugly, but when he does eventually connect it's pretty cool.
And on to the village . . .
posted by stompbox at 6/14/2007 01:45:00 pm
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