Chapter 2: The path to enlightenment is blood

Possessing both the instinct and intellect of a remarkably average dog, Murt rushes to chase the fleeing creatures. She only makes it several paces beyond the group before stopping at the strange apparition of the voice. Murt looks about the cave in confusion.

"WHO THAT?" She bellows into the dark unknown, boldly challenging the demons without, and perhaps, challenging the demons within her own inner being. "I GUNNA BREAK YOUR HEAD AND BURN YER HOUSE DOWN."

Oct 20, 2018 6:09 am

agentoforange Inactive forever!

"Tis I, the walker of shadow, I waxeth in winter and howl at the moon. Come, men and women of arms, put down your weapons and join my flock." The shadow says to Murt and her companions.

Hurtin' Murt

Oct 20, 2018 7:13 am

"SHUT. UP." Murt wildly attacks the darkness, her magic sword singing as it ineffectively cuts through open air.

Oct 20, 2018 5:39 pm

Lavender brandishes his dagger and looks around wildly for the source of the voice before settling on the shadow cast by the totem. Blinking a few times to make sure he isn't hallucinating, Lavender looks to Murt flailing about in the darkness. Hmm, mebbe she's better off NOT knowing, at least for the moment. He catches Stearvall's and Daniel's eyes to make sure they are aware of the voice's origin before donning his stage voice and addressing the entity.

"Good day to you, fine cave-dwelling shadow creature. I beg pardon, but your "good folk" as you call them are causing quite the disruption for the more... animated citizens of the region. You are aware your flock are completely undead and feeding off the living, yes?" As he speaks, Lavender slowly takes a few steps back away from the totem.

Oct 21, 2018 5:52 am

"Well of course my flock needs to eat. And twas I that led them to food." As the shadow speaks there is a loud rustling from deep inside the cave.

Oct 22, 2018 11:38 pm

OOC:

Is everyone busy? The game has slowed down considerably.

Oct 22, 2018 11:57 pm

OOC:

Just got back from vacation :)

Daniel raises an eyebrow, "Well, your flock is eating some friends of ours. I think they should probably stop it."

Oct 23, 2018 12:06 am

OOC:

I’m still here & checking this game everyday!

I’m trying to wait till at least one or two other players post for every Lavender post :)

Last edited October 23, 2018 12:08 am

Oct 23, 2018 2:14 am

The shadow ignores Daniel's request. It then starts to sing a little ditty.
"Before the time when time was time
the world was dark and dreary
gods were born and gods did die
and the world it was a weary
but Krom of shadow did endure
for hide he could and hide he did my deary
boo hoo, boo hoo ladeedadeedoo..."

As he sang the noise from deep down the tunnel grew louder.

OOC:

@Naatkinson ah yeah. that is right!
@moldynolds OK
How about the others?

Oct 23, 2018 4:03 pm

"Shut up," Daniel says irritably, grabbing the torch from whoever has it and shoving it into the shadows that the voice is coming from.

Oct 23, 2018 7:19 pm

Krom of shadow? Gods born and dying? Hell’s bells, as if we *needed* another immortal entity on our hands! Let’s see just how "of shadow" this Krom really is... Seeing Daniel provide a distraction, Lavender uses the flickering torchlight and shadow to circle around the room and hunker down a few yards off to the side of the tunnel that leads further underground where the rustling sound is growing.

Oct 24, 2018 12:07 am

As Daniel attempts to move the irritating shadow with a torch the light of the torch throws flickering shadows all over the walls. You all get snippits of a laughing shadow surrounding you.

Lavender takes the torch and casts the shadow deeper into the cave as the shadow grows longer and longer you here "Come eat my children. Feast apon their flesh and bones and blood. Lala ladeedadeedoo."

A single grimalkin runs into the torch light, then another and another. It seems a village of grimalkin, twisted undead goblins, stream toward you. Mindless and hungry.

OOC:

Everybody gets an initial action. Anything you want. After you post your action roll initiative.

Also just a little bg info. The characters know that the world is full of gods. But it is also full of powerful malignant (and rarely benign) spirits. There are also dangerous fey creatures of varying power. It is rumored infernals and celestials roam the material plane doing the things they do. And of course there are just scary monsters and scarier people. So not everything will be related to gods. But much of it will be dangerous...

Oct 24, 2018 12:37 am

Daniel growls, "Ah dammit!" before slashing at the nearest grimalkin, aiming for the legs to hopefully trip it up, and then backing up a few steps to a (hopefully) more defensible position.

OOC:

19 to hit
Success on deed to trip
5 damage

Last edited October 24, 2018 12:37 am

Rolls

Daniel Attack, Deed Die, Damage - (1d20+2, 1d3, 1d8+1)

1d20+2 : (14) + 2 = 16

1d3 : (3) = 3

1d8+1 : (1) + 1 = 2

Initiative - (1d20+1)

(11) + 1 = 12

Oct 24, 2018 12:45 am

Lavender watches with wide eyes as the first grimalkin emerges, running past him into the chamber. Then the second. Then the third. Aww... BULLOCKS!! By the time the fourth undead goblin scurries out of the tunnel Lavender silently darts foward, thrusting with his dagger.

Rolls

Move Silently - (1d20+3)

(3) + 3 = 6

Backstab - (1d20+2)

(20) + 2 = 22

Oct 24, 2018 12:54 am

OOC:

Well I’m assuming the 6 fails so no Backstab, but Lavender ended up naturally critting on his attack roll anyways, lol! BTW, Lavender isn’t getting any bonus from his Backstab skill currently, that +2 is from his Birth Augur.

Lavender finds a soft spot through sheer luck and when the grimalkin shivers with muscle spasms he sinks the blade in even deeper and twists.

Last edited October 24, 2018 12:57 am

Rolls

Dagger Damage - (1d4)

(4) = 4

Critical Table II - (1d10+2)

(3) + 2 = 5

Extra Damage - (3d3)

(122) = 5

Lavender’s Initiative - (1d20)

(14) = 14

Oct 25, 2018 12:25 am

agentoforange Inactive forever!

OOC:

I'll wait one more day to see if the others post.

Hurtin' Murt

Oct 25, 2018 4:30 am

Though much of the book on Murt's early life has gone missing from the absurd and vulgar annals of "Whatever-The-Hell Street Corner" she slept on , many more sources than necessary can attest that her formative years were spent ambushing the weaker children she laughingly would knock over. It is with this spirit that Murt seizes upon 'Ser'-Daniel's initiative, as she pounces upon his prey with a demented ferocity, cackling like a lunatic as her magic sword plunges wildly.

OOC:

Murt attacks Daniel's target, preferably once it has been knocked down.

OOC:

I dunno why, but I had a terrible time getting the dice to roll.

Last edited October 25, 2018 4:32 am

Rolls

Magic Sword Damage: 1d6 + 1 (str) + 1d3 (warrior) + 1d3 (magic) - (1d6+1, 1d3, 1d3)

1d6+1 : (4) + 1 = 5

1d3 : (2) = 2

Attack - (1d20+1, 1d3, 1d3)

1d20+1 : (3) + 1 = 4

1d3 : (3) = 3

1d3 : (1) = 1

Initiative - (1d20+0)

(13) = 13

Oct 25, 2018 11:37 pm

Three grimalkin fall to their death. Two more creatures that follow trip on the corpses of the fallen. These creatures frail bodies are no match for your steel weapons. However, six more stream forward surrounding you. A feeling of dread fills the more sentimental (if there are any) members of the group as you see what looks like a mother grimalkin with a young baby grimalkin at her breast.

OOC:

Initiative order
Lavender, Murt and Daniel
grimalkin (8 remaining, 2 are prone)

Rolls

grimalkin initiative - (1d20)

(8) = 8

Oct 26, 2018 2:20 pm

Lavender watches the group being surrounded by half-a-dozen grimalkin and, grimacing, runs into the shaft of light. Damn the gods... and the devils... and all the immortal... THINGS! Reaching into his pack, he pulls out his flask of oil, pops the cork, and pours it out over the totem, dousing it in thick flammable fluid. "Danny boy, come hit this thing with that torch n' send this hellspawn back to mommy!"

He wheels about, dagger brandished, ready to jump back in any direction in order to force any grimalkin that comes after him to enter the shaft of light.

Oct 26, 2018 4:12 pm