Chapter 1 - Kem, City of Gold

"Argh! Die already!" Butterfly curses as she attacks again!

Health: 12

Damage: 4

Injured: No

Rolls

Rapier - Attack, Trickery - (1d20+4+d6)

(1) + (1) + 4 = 6

Damage, Trickery - (2d6+1)

(42) + 1 = 7

Jul 30, 2024 3:25 pm

Theodore concentrates on the fight in front of him wordlessly. He grunts as the doll hits him, annoyed that he left himself open like that. He strikes again with his rapier, hoping to end this quickly.

Rolls

Rapier w/Weapon Finesse - Attack - (1d20+2+1d6)

(18) + (1) + 2 = 21

Rapier w/Weapon Finesse - Damage - (1d6+1)

(5) + 1 = 6

GM

Jul 31, 2024 4:54 am

GM

Two hits and two misses. Theodore breaks off the chest and belly of one doll, spilling more emerald light. It looks heavily damaged but still stands. Fingas likewise breaks off several ceramic pieces of its body, and it stands as well. The dolls retaliate by climbing up the heroes' bodies and scratching with their tiny hands. Despite Fingas' spell, the doll grabs on to his indistinct form and rakes his chest with sharp hands. Hargrac gets a shallow slash across his neck.

OOC:

1 damage to Fingas and Hargrac. 3 of the dolls are on their last legs! I believe in you all!

Rolls

Purple vs Fingas - (1d20+1)

(10) + 1 = 11

Red vs Butterfly - (1d20+1+1d6)

(5) + (5) + 1 = 11

Green vs Theodore - (1d20+1+1d6)

(5) + (2) + 1 = 8

White vs Hargrac - (1d20+1+1d6)

(18) + (2) + 1 = 21

Damage - (1d3)

(1) = 1

Butterfly

Dmbrainiac

Jul 31, 2024 8:28 am

Butterfly attacks once more, with feeling!

Health: 12

Damage: 4

Injured: No

Rolls

Rapier, Trickery - (d20+4+d6)

(12) + (6) + 4 = 22

Damage, Trickery - (2d6+1)

(34) + 1 = 8

Jul 31, 2024 10:02 am

Theodore tries to stab at the creature, without accidentally hitting himself instead.

Rolls

Rapier w/Weapon Finesse - Attack - (1d20+2+1d6)

(11) + (4) + 2 = 17

Rapier w/Weapon Finesse - Damage - (1d6+1)

(5) + 1 = 6

Jul 31, 2024 10:16 am

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"Bastard thing tried to slit my throat!" Hargrac bellows, and he almost sounds impressed.

That doesn’t stop him from hitting the thing as if he was driving a golf ball downrange.

Rolls

Attack + Damage - (1d20+1, 2d6)

1d20+1 : (20) + 1 = 21

2d6 : (24) = 6

Banes - (3d6)

(154) = 10

Fingas

Jul 31, 2024 10:24 am

Health: 10

Damage: 3

Injured: No

Status Effect	Rounds Remaining
Weakened	3 rounds
Distort Appearance	3 rounds

"Ah! Get it off!" the goblin yells as the creepy-ass doll claws at his face.

Rolls

Dagger - Attack - (1d20+1)

(9) + 1 = 10

Dagger - Damage - (1d3)

(2) = 2

GM

Aug 1, 2024 3:20 am

GM

The party rallies and takes the dolls to pound town. Theodore, Hargrac, and Butterfly each smash their doll to pieces, releasing flashes of their respective colored lights. One the light dissipated, a book remains inside each broken ceramic body. Fingas still has a nightmare doll clinging to his body, stabbing over and over with its stubby sharp fingers. It scores another slice along his shoulder.

OOC:

1 damage to Fingas. PCs are up, only one doll left!

Rolls

Purple vs Fingas - (1d20+1)

(15) + 1 = 16

Damage - (1d3)

(1) = 1

Aug 1, 2024 3:42 am

"Right! Hold still, or this’ll hurt!" Hargrac calls, giving the goblin barely have a second to prepare! Then, he wallops his hammer at the little creature, intent on smashing it to bits!

Rolls

Attack + Damage - (1d20+1, 2d6)

1d20+1 : (19) + 1 = 20

2d6 : (51) = 6

Butterfly

Dmbrainiac

Aug 1, 2024 7:14 am

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Butterfly briefly considers letting the doll stab Fingas to death. But she sighs as she realizes that means she'd have no choice of ever being returned to her proper body. She quickly grabs her dagger off her belt with her free hand and hurls it at the doll.

OOC:

Fast, draw dagger as minor activity and attack.

Rolls

Thrown Dagger, Trickery - (d20+4+d6)

(19) + (2) + 4 = 25

Damage, Trickery - (d3+d6)

(2) + (2) = 4

Fingas

Aug 1, 2024 7:20 am

Fingas screams as the dwarven axe comes within millimeters of his face, leaving him breathing hard as the doll crumbles.

OOC:

I'm assuming this is enough to destroy it.

Rolls

Dagger - Attack - (1d20+1)

(2) + 1 = 3

Dagger - Damage - (1d3)

(2) = 2

Aug 1, 2024 10:02 am

If the doll is still moving about, Theodore tries to stab it deader.

Rolls

Rapier w/Weapon Finesse - Attack - (1d20+2+1d6)

(14) + (4) + 2 = 20

Rapier w/Weapon Finesse - Damage - (1d6+1)

(3) + 1 = 4

GM

Aug 2, 2024 2:26 am

GM

Bookrat says:

OOC:

I'm assuming this is enough to destroy it.

OOC:

Actually it was still up even after Theodore's attacks, but close enough to dead I won't drag it out lol.

The final doll shatters from the blows of Fingas' allies who have come to help. There's a purple flash and a fourth book drops to the floor among shards of broken ceramic. The theater is quiet in the aftermath of the skirmish. Four books now lie scattered around among the remains of their animated doll containers.

Codex of the White: Cover made from metal that bristles with blades and barbs, pages of vellum, titled: Codex of the Illuminates
Tome of the Green: Cover of solid gold, pages of paper, titled: The Beggar Merchant's Guide to Riches
Book of the Red: Cover of wood covered in rose thorns and adorned with a clasp lock, onionskin pages, untitled
Folio of the Purple: Cover of thin wood wrapped in leather, pages of parchment, titled: The Folly of Felonious Flibbertigibbet

Aug 2, 2024 3:10 am

"They was no giants." Hargrac mutters glumly, even as thin trickles of blood run down his body.

He rifles through the books, stacking them up, before passing them off to one of the others.

"Books." he scoffs, not interested in the slightest, though he’s sure one of the others must be.

GM

Aug 2, 2024 5:42 am

GM

OOC:

@KCC By "rifles through them" do you mean you open all of them...? Because I'm going to need the order you touch them, some rolls, and potentially have you make a new character lol.

Aug 2, 2024 8:01 am

OOC:

I was imagining myself picking them up and looking at the covers. Not caring much for them and then sticking them in a pile.

But I can look at the gold one a little more closely, for fun!

GM

Aug 2, 2024 12:51 pm

GM

OOC:

Alrighty, make me a Will save with 2 banes please!

Aug 2, 2024 1:11 pm

OOC:

Nat 20, coming up!

Rolls

Will - (1d20+0)

(13) = 13

Banes - (2d6)

(31) = 4

GM

Aug 2, 2024 1:14 pm

GM

OOC:

Lol lucky dog, you made it exactly!

As Hargrac touches the gold cover, he feels a slight tingle in his hand, as if the cover was slightly electrified, but the feeling quickly fades. Inside is a rags-to-riches story of a beggar becoming one of the wealthiest merchants to ever live. It would take serveral days if not weeks to read entirely, but at least there was a nice summary in the preface.

Aug 2, 2024 5:03 pm