DM themed play-by-post D&D game : OOC thread

[beowuuf]

I think you sniffed them before, and they didn't smell bad by any means. I think Haynuus's weighing in on the subject fed by me was 'they didn't smell like anything bad

Anyway, Westian is your meat puppet right now Ameena Where you want Ameena to go, Westian will take her! So depending on the agreement of your fellows, would it be the left corridor leading to the way Farel and Aurek had gone (has no bodies in it) or would it be deep down the right corridor, which can be closed, but hasn't been explored. The entrance to that corridor is out, since there's a dead Thinpas there and slightly furhter down is a pool of Helm's blood. Well, a little pool of it... let's not go overboard now! No, wait, he was on 0hp...that's about right

[Ameena]

Ameena will have sniffed them before, yeah - it's what she does with anything new . Anyway, even if they didn't smell too great, it's gonna be better than a dead body, isn't it?
As to direction, right now Ameena probably doesn't care where she gets taken - she just wants...no, needs, to basically snuggle up to someone and just conk out for a long, long time while her head gets itself back together. Curing the poison and taking away the pain in her nose (and all the icky blood that came out of it ) would be a great help too . But as long as she's not within sight or smell of blood and death (admittedly avoiding the former may be tricky since she has some of the stuff all round her nose right now...but at least it's her own), she'll be a bit more comfortable, at least. I suppose she's gonna get some ick on her from Westian's wounded arm/shoulder when he picks her up. I don't think there's anyone who doesn't have blood on them right now, whether their own or someone else's .
Hey, let's find where the Grey Lord keeps his bath tubs!

[beowuuf]

Aurek! He healed all his wounds and then stuck armour over the top, so he's fresh. Umm, well, fresh-ish. He will have other people's on him

Actualyl, I think Farel si the only person not bloodied...no, wait, he doens't have blood on him from other people, but did take a wound himself

War is hell! Bath tubes are on level 11 with the Trolins - they have communal bathing areas powered by the water elementals :p

[Ameena]

Yeah, I was referring to other people's blood in my generic use of "blood" there . I imagine anyone using a bladed wep to deal damage (and who scored a decent hit) probably received at least a mild splattering. Westian only bashed someone's head in with a club, as far as I can recall, although I suppose that could have gunked him up a bit .
One thing I suppose I should be (arsed to) do is check to see exactly what Ameena saw of the fight - obviously she saw Falkor's initiating Fireball, and when she retreated and came back she saw him bleeding on the floor (I think she ran then anyway, so didn't actually see him get stabbed). I think she also saw Helm get attacked but again I can't remember. Damn I really, really should get on with that character-knowledge thing - I still haven't added to it since I started it and got up to the lofty heights of page 5 of the IC thread .

[beowuuf]

Actually, Westian's clubbng of the helmed head probably didn't from how I described that, but then he got himself sliced.

To meta-game, Farel tends to do non-lethal damage as an honourable knight, so he should have avoided the blood....however, as I said he got clocked running for Marhman!

And yeah, this weeken will be house tidying and then starting to attack the IC thread once again to try and keep track of alot of things. What each charcter knows and doesn't is a daunting task in and of itself!

[Ameena]

Yeah, worse for you as the GM . But I should probably just re-read the posts made of the fight so I can ensure character knowledge before Ameena's brought back to the others and is awake enough to try and talk to them - obviousl,y how she reacts to each of them will likely depend on what she saw of them during the fight. Though things like being covered in blood but not appearing to have been wounded will also factor in . I'll also have to check who got wounded, and where - I know Westian got stabbed (I think) on the shoulder, Haynuus got sliced across the stomach, and Falkor got stuck through the gut, and presumably, since I don't think anyone got healed back up to full hp, those wounds will still show to some degree (bloodstains aside).
Anyway...yeah...maybe I'll try and read over this stuff at the weekend. Don't get a huge amount of time during the week for stuff right now, due to working a five-day week...we're not allowed days off in the few weeks each side of Christmas so I can never hope to have my birthday off unless it falls on a weekend (which of course it doesn't this year, boooo). Gah, it's taking me soooo long to get through Neverwinter Nights, lol.

[beowuuf]

I see a lot of kids with those “I Roll Twenties” t-shirts. I don’t know what game they are playing, or where they get their dice. I need one that says, “Help. The dice are trying to kill me.”

I saw this and thought of you

[Lord_BoNes]

I know that I actually have 2 flasks on me (YA potions) but trying to save them.

[Ameena]

Ameena's already brought this up in the IC post I just made, but it's probably gonna be a bit tricky for her to drink from a flask - narrow neck to it and all that. rats don't really drink like that, do they - they more kind of lap. When she's been drinking from that little water-bottle thingy she's got, I've imagined her as tipping it up far enough for it to start dripping out, and lapping up the drops as they come. And also, trying to drink a full flask of anything might make her explode . Little and often, remember? I imagine murafu would normally drink by either lapping it straight out of a pond or river or whatever, or by using a bowl or some kind. Pointy noses won't fit down the neck of a flask/bottle too well, I don't think .
That's if she gets a potion any time soon, anyway. At the rate I'm going I'm gonna end up getting pwnzored by this bloody poison anyway, lol. Probably due for another save attempt at that soon. But poison aside, I hope she at least can get her poor schnoz(z?) fixed soon .
Failing all that I suppose she'll just end up passing out and someone will carry her off and if she can get healed before the poison actually finishes her off, I suppose she'll wake up somewhere completely new (to her) and have reason to be even more confused .

[beowuuf]

Not sure if I made it clear in previous posts, you don't get a filled flask. The moisture in the air condenses on the side (magially aided in amount a little) to create a small amoutn of liquid. To me it seems more realistic, and gave a reason why it had to be glass (why metal wouldn't work...well, that's a question for the magical world, isn't it.) Also, I've taken the liberty of saying that the liquid needs to be not only ingested, but also spalshed on the wound itself to take effect.

It seems to me a better reason why woundly would semi-close than just 'yeah, magically they disappear. Again, it feels 'realistic' to have that contact.

Long story short - dribbling some of the contents directly in ameena's mouth and splashign the rest on her face and paw wound should do the trick - well, temporarily for the posion. And also mean that the wound itself is healed.

Wow, a little poison and a kick to the nose and Ameena goes all to pieces. Falkor's been run through then sliced and Haynuus has been all but gutted, and their fine now (ish)! Where's your heroic composure!

[Ameena]

Bahh...from the looks of things, everyone else has had considerable experience with various types of combat and violence. And none of them have been poisoned yet (since being in the dungeon). And they're all bigger than Ameena is. And who said Ameena was a hero(ine)? And umm...yeah. Stuff. Anyway, she's probably worked her way quite far along the "I'm going to die some time fairly soon" path, considering the pain in her leg has been getting worse with no sign of stopping, she can hardly even get up right now, and has no clue if/how she's gonna get better. So there .
Her paw didn't actually have a wound as such, did it? I'm guessing the poison was just absorbed through the skin or something - you said there was no visible sign of injury there, anyway. So I suppose a potion could be absorbed in the same kind of way. At some point I suppose she'll actually be able to get round to explaining to the others exactly what happened and how she got poisoned in the first place and stuff. Though I suppose, for now, they won't necessarily know that she has been poisoned, since she hasn't exactly stated as such (or did she mention it to Westian when he suggested picking her up...can't remember now). Then again, her leg has been twitching, and she did mention to Westian that the Rock Monster's tendril thingys were poisonous - and it'd only be a logical guess as to how she'd know that .

[beowuuf]

By wound I meant you'd see the irritated welt where the poison was absorbed through the skin, so it would be a useful point to plant some potion on

[Ameena]

Ahh okay...I thought I'd asked about that before and you'd said there was no visible injury. Oh well...as long as it gets cured eventually, hehe. I wonder how crap a roll I will get on my next Fort save against it .

[beowuuf]

Lol, knowing you - crap! Good news, you heal 6 lethal damage plus 6 non-lethal damage, whch means you are on full health. Westain is on hand to splash water on Ameana's face to get rid of the blood, so, you know, for now she's ok..ish. Maybe a twinge still in the leg, but Ameena should feel fully refreshed - a little odd feeling, as if for the moment even the memory of the pain has been washed away.

Well, until the next save!

[Ameena]

Hehe yeah, true - groovy about the full-healing. I had made an enquiry about that in an OOC note at the start of the IC post I just made while you were posting this. So you can ignore that part now . I shall remove the rest of the damage from my character sheet, until I fail my next Fort save and start dying again .
Now it's just the psychological traumas to get rid of .

[beowuuf]

OK, can I suggest maybe an OOC summary of how the rest is going to play out right now, I don't want OB and money to have to wade through too much stuff to get caught up!

Is Ameena happy to go through the teleporter now to speak to Falkor, or not? Which direction do people want to go - through the doors (no one has mentioned to Ameena Farel said the way out could be that way) or back the way Aurek came?

[Ameena]

Well, Ameena wants to reunite with Helm anyway, because he's one of the Nice People. She'd probably want carrying through the blood-and-guts room though - she could walk through it with her eyes closed but she wouldn't want to whisker up against one of the corpses. Plus there's all that blood all over the floor right in front of the teleporter - if she stepped in that she'd know what it was straight away (even if she couldn't smell it) and she'd probably freak again.
Since her leg isn't hurting quite so much now, carrying her will probably be a bit easier than it would have been (in terms of trying not to accidentally touch it and cause her pain/discomfort), and since she's not exactly heavy, it shouldn't prove much of a problem for any of those currently with her.
I wouldn't say she was "happy" about anything right now, though Aurek's being alright with her. She was sort of trying to work out whether he knows about the Murafu attitude toward physical contact, but so far either she hasn't managed to phrase it right in asking him, or he's just sort of missed the angle of her questions. Either way, I presume Helm will already know something of this from when they met the first time, so she can get her fix with him instead .

[beowuuf]

Actually, money's going to be busy for the next two week days, so I guess my request to slow things down and summarise was mis-timed.

So Falkor won't be around for a reconsiliation with Ameena until Wednesday, basically he'll be auto-piloted as Westian was. So feel free to make plans on where everyone is going, just don't throw comments to Falkor. I'll roll skill-checks if any are required of him.

[Ameena]

Well, I'm sure our little group on the non-dead-body side of the teleporter can keep a conversation going till Money gets back, so I don't think we'll have a problem . Somehow I think he should be around to play his character when Ameena reaches him. Wherever she gets brought to (she'll probably be all huddled up in someone's arms with her eyes squinched shut and her nose shoved deep inside that pouch of herbs), just make sure it's not within sight of a dead body/loads of blood and as far out of smell of it all as possible, and she should be able to hold it together to have a conversation.
Good thing about the horrible scary nasty minions of Chaos - at least when they die, they don't leave ick everywhere .

[beowuuf]

If Ameena's being carried and everyone's making tactical decisions, the heart to heart might be delayed anyway. Play it by ear, but do be aware you aren't going to get three weeks to talk about nothing. You guys need to move at some point soon, or find a good spot to hole up in, or else.... well, now that would be telling

[Ameena]

Oh well yeah, of course we need to get our arses in gear soon too. I suppose it's a matter of managing to divide equally enough between getting on with things and having our characters actually get to know each other.

[beowuuf]

Awww, you guys are all together again.

Funnily enough, I was going to enter a cut to Farel's reaction to the fact no one had re-appeared yet, but then realised Falkor had fallen over and that hadn't been resolved... so imagine Farel is cat-like in his being worried over the group/being distracted from worrying about the group

[Ameena]

Falkor fell over? Oops, must've missed that part, lol. How badly injured is Helm still, btw? I know he took a couple of nasty hits but got a LoH from Aurek. Just for the RP point of view, so I know what Ameena will see when she reunites with him after they pass through the icky room. Farel didn't get hit, did he? He'll just have blood on him that might have splattered there from other people. And of course Falkor's entire lower section is gonna be pretty gory-looking still...

[beowuuf]

He got dizzy and fell to his knees, and I think that's where friday stopped for Falkor! Remember Falkor has the cloak, so he'd probably wrap it around himself sub-consciously if his wound still looked that bad.

Helm's wound was closed up a little by Aurek, enough for him to not be bleeding but he's still very weak from loss of blood. H At the moment he can stand on his own, and move ok, but would prefer to rest against a wall. Helm has only 2 hp, but to be honest he isn't that well endowed with hit points. A few fortifying VI potions should see him alright, and he'll be quiet but will move if the party dictates. Sorry, to answer your question, he'll have a nasty shoulder wound that he's put a ripped strip on (weekping blood but ok) and a barely closed wound on his back Ameena wouldn't see, but which would soak his back in blood. Themost important part will be Helm looking really pale, and still be a little shaky.

Farel received a blow to his side when he ran passed Thinpas. I forget if it was blunt trauma or got through his armour, but it's probably not noticeable unless you stand right beside him, and he'll currently be ignoring it because it's fairly minor to him either way.

Edit: I forgot to say, Haynuus still ahs the front breastplay on, it was just Drommal's blow came in from the side and twisted the looose straps out of the way (pr some such thing). So Haynuus's wound will be disguised by his breastplate. Ish...

[Ameena]

Oh yeah, well Farel is a big scary knight isn't he, so getting donked a bit in the side with a club probably won't cause him much aggravation, I'm sure .
If possible, when the group reunites, could you add in a brief description of how/where Helm and the others are standing in relation to Ameena and co. when they get there, so I know what to react to? No need yet since we're not there and I'll just have to search through for this post and find it. Actually the same is true of the description of Helm's injuries, I suppose, but I didn't think of that when I asked you about it .

[beowuuf]

Hmm, I forget if I've described him too much beyond face, and if that was just to Aurek. Actually, he's about average, earlyu thirties (which is older fora fighter) and slighter of build. The amrour will hide that a little, but he's no 6'6" tank. And Thinpas used a sword, just with heavy armour alot of the damage is usually blunt force trauma instead of pieceing the weak points.

At the monent, if you think about the room again, Farel is at the door, Helm is against the door frame furthest from the teleporter, and Falkor was through the door beside the kephole on the other side (which is on the side furthest from he teleporter)

[Ameena]

Oh, I thought they'd gone through the eastern door (from the fight room) quite a way down a corridor that wasn't on the map. If they're still in the doorway, that'll be too close for Ameena.

[beowuuf]

Helm only managed to stagger 40 feet down the corridor before being caught, so the party has been dithering between there and the door. Falkor was checking out the door, and Farel helped Helm back to the door (better defensible and better to know what was around) so they are now hovering there.

I did do a map snapshot, just didn't get around to putting it up!

[beowuuf]

There we go. The RA keyhole is in the alcove by the door, Helm was caught just before the bend in the corridor (I think Haynuus left his torch at the bend) and the left corridor bends then goes back to going straight left (or to Aurek, straight up ).

[beowuuf]

Sorry, why too close for Ameena? She won't know they are there, and at the moment I think only Helm is visible, Farel and Falkor are probably half-obscured by the doorway in the hall.

Unless Falkor waived Farel off, in which case he'll be in the door too.

That's still 20 feet away, don't let the battle grind stuff fool you. And of course Ameena can instantly panic and direct Westian to taking her left to Aurek's starting corridor. The soldier (Passin) who is lying thre isn't all that bloodied, I think I made his injuried blunt trauma to mix it up (despite Aurek's wish to behead the poor guy!)