[pnpgm] Game Update #158 - File #1162 - Party moves through forest
Tobie Bonahoom
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Wed Dec 9 11:11:43 CET 2020
Fremea just shakes her head at how she missed these vile creatures. If she just had her magics, it would have been a much different story. Once they see that it takes magic weapons to destroy the last one, it makes more sense to her.
Nothing for her to do, so she takes a few minutes to relax again before taking off. Listening to the group starting to not be ok with direct commands, which really none of them should ever be, hopefully this short bearded one will start to understand that. She takes off again to scout.
Reaching the edge of the woods, she stops and puts on her best protective gear from the sun - that doesn't seem to be there, yet still makes her feel uncomfortable. She pulls out her spyglass to look around, using the full magics to see where she is supposed to be going to.
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Character Name
Type
Player
Sex Notes
..Arawn...........Druid...John.Haight........Ma..Alfar/Backup Navigator
..Dorhak..........Warrior.Kevin.Newark.......Ma..Captain/Leader/Dwarf
..Fremea..........Sidh....Tobie.Bonahoom.....Fe..Faerry/Archer/Magician
..Kiet............Acrobat.David.Sanders......Ma..Human/Magician
..Pyandalgor......Hunter..Panthera...........Ma..Human/Hunter
..Raddok..........Miner...Bess.Hadley........Ma..Human/Miner
..Tsia.Phan.......Thief...Don.Ker............Fe..Human/Thief
..Unali...........Ninja...Wout.Broere........Fe..Human/Dagger Maiden
..Upus............Warrior.Gerald.Ford........Ma..Normal/Barbarian
Warrior
..Kimis...........Warrior.NPC................Fe..Normal/Diumgi Companion
..Z'leyra.........Healer..Alex Koponen.......Fe..Human/Shaman/1st Mate
..Barbosa.........Warrior.Npc................Ma..Dwarf/Outcast
..Bes (2).........Warrior.npc................Mo..Bes..............
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Update #158 sequence (file #1162)
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[Recap]
From Z'leyra: [Re: Actions]
Z'leyra
immediately wipes her blade clean of the acidic blood by …
GM: Ack. Considers but does not take gotcha.
From Dorhak: [Re: Actions]
Captain Dorhak
moves over toward the group around their adversary …
"We will not
suffer such creatures to live. Unali! Dispatch …
GM: Ack.
From Kiet: [Re: Actions[
Kiet deactivates
his boot of speed and heads over to the dead …
"Does
anybody see anything valuable the might carry on them?" …
GM: Ack.
From Unali: [Re: Actions]
Unali is visibly
shocked by the demands of the dwarf. Even as …
"[Captain
(in Katai)], while I am capable fighter in the light …
GM: Ack.
From Opus: [Re: Actions]
Opus tries to get
to Kimis Ignoring his own wounds but he falls …
GM: Ack. Good post.
From Raddok: [Re: Actions]
Raddok has stood
firm to protect the King as ordered, but finds …
He turns to the
king & asks “What is the magic of these – …
GM: Ack.
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[New
Stuff]
[Ma
9th,
1636TH]
[Time: 4:04:13 pm]
Z'leyra immediately wipes her blade clean of the acidic
blood by wiping it on the grass. A quick wipe with an oiled cloth and she
sheathes it so she can help patch folk's wounds.
But she remembers she has no oil in her bags. So uses
a simple cloth.
She considers taking spell components from the corpses so
that in the future she can dedicate some weapons to the killing of these
creatures, Weapons that will be immune to the ravages of the acid these
creatures have.
She also wonders how long till she starts regaining her
mana.
But in this place time is diluted and hard to
ascertain. May take hours, weeks or years to regain mana. But
she doesn't want to remain here long to find out how long.
Captain Dorhak moves over toward the group around their
adversary and immediately regrets it. Gods! The reeking
stench! Do they always smell this way or is it only in death they
do so. He moves over to the first one, the dead one, breathing
through his mouth to reduce the smell. At the same time he
struggles with great difficulty not to purge his stomach. The first
Grundwergen is obviously already dead.
He wanders over to the second one. It’s still
breathing, which is not a good thing. Dorhak would rather cuddle an
unhappy skunk than be within 100’ of such as these things.
Basically man sized, but strong, hairy, smelly, and ugly.
"We will not suffer such creatures to live.
Unali! Dispatch it quickly."
"Gods! The smell. we should move our camp
away. A long way away!"
Kiet deactivates his boot of speed and heads over to the
dead creature. Grundwergen, they said? Kiet has never heard of
such. Nor has he smelled anything so foul. He looks around to
find a branch or small sapling he might us to poke and prod it, and then
to roll it over for inspection.
Touching it seems unwise if the information is true about
ruining metals, not to mention wondering if one could ever be rid of the
reek.
He then grabs some largish leaves to use when he pulls back
the lips of the things. Sure enough, the teeth are made for
rending...carnivores. Faintly man-like, but definitely not
human. Kiet wonders about why they attacked a group this
large. Maybe they were simply starving. Either way, he is
satisfied with the result. They are dead, and we and the King are still
alive, though it looks like the large red man may have gotten the worst
of it.
The Captain said to protect the King. Kiet is
satisfied about the result.
"Does anybody see anything valuable the might carry on
them?" Kiet knows that the group doesn’t really have time to
search for their lair. Who knows how far and what direction it
might be? As fast as they moved, about twice as fast as an Elf,
they could be from anywhere.
The group looks carefully, though at a distance, but sees no
bags or pouches or the like. They must've been truly feral
creatures.
Unali is visibly shocked by the demands of the dwarf. Even
as she is aware of the hatred his race must feel towards any Kotothi,
this demand to her is beyond what she can stomach.
She starts out in Katai, corrects herself and continues
in Marentian:
"[Captain (in Katai)], while I am capable fighter in the light and
equally capable to strike from the shadows, or in this dusk we are
surrounded by, I certainly have not sought out to kill if it can be
avoided and fully succumb to the dark. This beast is incapacitated
enough, and not mine to kill."
Silence fills the forest as if holding it's breath hearing
Unali's words. To some they wonder why not Kiet? He is a trained
executioner. But some realize its only practical. With her
and Z'leyra's weapons affected would be bad for a person to kill and ruin
their weapons while hers is already damaged? But some do not speak
up right away.
Dorhak stares at Unali. The gall of these
females! First Mae, Tsia and now her? But his anger drains
knowing that soon he'll not be leader once they get back home.
Opus tries to get to Kimis Ignoring his own wounds but he
falls over in pain. He can't move well and he is not sure he can
help her. He quietly as he slumps to the ground says, “Burn
these creatures to the ground.”
But then he realizes the fire may attract more to the
group's location. By the smoke that would rise to the sky. He says
to the group, “Never mind !”.
In his mind he thinks, “I have endured pain at the
hands of a bad man. I can handle this. Stand up and help yourself.”
Opus rises up and get the courage and tries to find a way
with his own belongings to bind his wounds. He can barely moves as each
movement is painful.
As he does so he simply says in a quiet manner, 'Help!”
Raddok has stood firm to protect the King as ordered, but
finds himself getting more concerned, not less, as the fighting seems to
have stopped. One of the creatures appears to still be alive, since he
hears Dorhak's order to Unali to slay it. The stench from the creatures
was becoming more overwhelming, even from where he stood about 10 or so
feet away.
Raddok's concern is not about imminent attack right now,
since both of the slimy horrors are down, but about the strange behavior
of the king & the Bes guard - & the strange way the battle seems
to have gone. Why did the king & guard not try to fight once the king
recognized these strange creatures? He even seemed to stop trying to get
past Raddok, & let the others do the fighting.
And even more confusing was the battle itself. He could see
much of what happened most of the time, but why were there so many
apparent misses when his friends were so competent & skilled? It
seemed that most hits aimed at the creature's heads simply passed through
– nothing?
He turns to the king & asks “What is the magic of these
– Grundwergen? Why do they ignore hits to their heads & half the hits
to their bodies? Are they part ghost or spirit? Are they just slime with
no body in some places? How can we tell if they're dead or not? How do we
kill them, except by repeated hitting & slashing?”
Raddok still feels a sense of danger, but does not know what
to do or say, other than to just keep watch around them all carefully. He
stays ready for battle and looks around in all directions, looking
closely for any movement at all - he even remembers to look skyward, as
Fremea's sudden presence reminds him of that oft-neglected direction for
danger.
Dorhak hears Unali refusing the order, and his knuckles go white on
his sword hilt. "So be it" he says as he glares at her,
for a bit, but turns away. Moving toward the living creature, he calls
out " Kiet! Finish off this creature."
Kiet is taken aback by Unali's refusal. He's been
under the authority of a ships captain several times. You don't
refuse a direct order. Ever. Kiet certainly has no
compunctions against following this order either as it makes sense not to
leave live enemies behind.
Kiet walks over to the body of the Grundwergen examining it
for the best place to strike. Kiet decides to simply take off its
head. He moves around a bit more and carefully lines up his strike
to cross the neck. He takes the sword into both hands, gripping the
hilt and pommel, then swings down with all the strength he can wield.
All of a sudden, the sword simply bounces off?!
Nothing. No damage. No cut fur. No blood. Just nothing.
Kiet looks incredulously at Dorhak and backs away slightly. He
tries again, this time on a leg. He takes a measured swing, but gets the
same result. He tries several more times with no wounds appearing.
Kiet pulls back and says "Captain!
This...thing...seems to be enchanted. I can't harm it with my
weapon." He thinks for a bit deciding if it's wise to ask a
question, angry as the dwarf is now. "Captain. I know
your sword is enchanted. Might I borrow it to strike the final blow,
hoping it's enchantment might trump that of the creature?"
Dorhak is wary of doing so. While he dislikes giving
over his weapon, at least he knows the dark little human isn't acting in
disobedience but trying his best to follow the order. The Captain
hands it over, knowing that Kiet could use magic if need be, but also
knows that all the magic in this group is limited. Best to save it
for emergencies.
Kiet takes
the short sword and swings it a couple of times to get the weight and
balance of it. His curved tulwar is best suited for taking a limb
or head, especially from a creature prone on the ground. With the
short sword, a straight thrust into the body of the Grundwergen should
suffice. He studies the creature, then thrusts the sword into its
chest, blade horizontal to slide between ribs, approximately where it's
heart might be.
This time, the blade bites.
Because of the warning about the creature's blood, Kiet
looks around for something to clean the blade. He finds some leaves
that look to do the trick, removes the blood as best he can, then hands
the sword back to Dorhak.
Dorhak sheathes the blade, but still obviously more than a
little angry.
The King listens with a bemused smirk. “I was just
going to suggest crushing it's throat with my sandals since it has no
metal. But that was a fine demonstration!” He looks to
Raddok, “this is why I was not eager to attack to save my spear
tips. Plus we are not hostile folks so I support Unali's
view. They say these beasts are immune to weapons that isn't of
great strength. More than chainmail strong. This is the
reason for bounces by your slices.” He glances at Kimis and
Kiet. “They also say they are bugged by music. So I suspect when
Kimis played music they got hot blood hatred for us. Or maybe they
are just mean beasts?”
Barbosa nods, “burning them would be dangerous. If
forest burns down that Vily will be our end. Speaking of which...shes
bound to hear about this from the trees. I suggest we move on
fast.”
[Time: 4:10 pm]
Arawn watches all of this in subtle silence. He nods
hearing Unali protests so feels good about that. A rift is forming
in the party but its good to have open discourse not blind
obedience.
Z'leyra patches up Opus and Kimis. Cleaning wounds and
clothing form slime and blood. Both will survive. But takes a
good amount of bandages.
Dorhak orders group back to position and moves out.
With two wounded in back that will help to ensure no frontal
ambushes.
AS Fremea flies ahead above the trees she notices the day
light getting brighter as the “day” shows. But oddly there is no
“sun” it just seems to be brighter now. To not be seen and to avoid
the light Fremea moves below the canopy and flies in the darker shade of
the trees weaving back and forth.
[Time: 6:21 pm]
The group takes a quick break and eats what they have.
Water is running low so Fremea is asked to look for rivers or
streams. Since its daylight and time is critical the party moves
on.
Unali walks slowly besides Arawn, she asks if she could see
the cube item again. "Let me see the cube that was hidden in
the tree. It seems somehow familiar."
Arawn shows the bag of loot. Unali ponders the cube bit
shakes her head. She stares at the ink well. The object that
is same as a ink well but instead of a open area or lid to dip quill in
ink its closed. No way to open it, it seems. Maybe its just a
neat paper weight?
[Time: 9:12 pm]
Back in the Middle World it'd surely be past 9pm back in Bes
fortress. Only 30 minutes earlier Fremea found a watering hole about 50
feet wide probably from sunken ground. Water is replenished for the
party.
Fremea joins the party saying the edge of the forest is
near. They approach and see a wide open plain. It stretches
west to east (left to right) as far as eye can see. Folks try to
spot any town or village but do not at this point. To the far north
forward is a medium sized mountain chain. Probably 75-100 miles
wide? The mountains are clouded in gray-blue mist. Spots of
green show a forest on the sides of the mountains. The mountains
are 8-10 miles away it seems. There is light vegetation – shrubs, bushes
and small clumps of trees on the plain but not much cover. The
temperature is a warm 70s maybe? But in open “sun” it may get
hotter.
With the wounded it may take another 3-5 more hours to get
to forest/mountains.
Barbosa looks at Dorhak, “shall we rest, camp or move on?”
GM:
Actions? Comments?
Next update....Fri/Sat?
GM: So its
been about 8 hours since entered LW. So do you move on or
camp? Local time it seems afternoon time. Let me know.
Just a note on the Grund blood. Some argue the BL8 thing. But
when I worked on the v2 monster file from Richard's edits I asked him
about it. The BL8 is for Great Serpent but since there is NO metal
exception thus no BL8. Now I checked/rolled for blood splashes. No
one else affected. The stuff from Dorhak/Kiet and some of Wout's
were in old/new emails.
GM:
Groups- [here to remind me of walking groups]
1st Triad –
Dorhak, Barbosa, Raddok
2nd Triad –
Z'leyra, Tsia, Unali, King, Arawn.
3rd Triad – Pyan, Opus, Kimis, Kiet.
GM:
Experience -
Player
MEP
CEP Expertise Notes
Unali
- 175
(40) Dagger x3
Unali
-
-
8 Two Handed Weapon
Z'leyra
- 60
10 Sword x1
GM: Notes
-
Unali
- Dagger
#1-FV-2 Dagger #2 - FV-2
Z'leyra Sword - FV-2
Arrows (5) not lost
can be reacquired.
Kimis - -12 HPV
Opus - -13 HPV
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