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Successful Businessmanga
Mar 28, 2010

quote:


Amo the Shy
Health- 19 Armor - 11Accuracy - +1
Skills -
Appraisal, Devour, Interpretive dance.
Abilities -
Allure, Chameleon, Adhesive Slime.
Talent - Just Rewards.

Amo twitches uncomfortably under cloak of his newest friend Mark, it had only been a few weeks since the researchers had found him as they cleared out the dungeon supply closet, his lid wincing up an inch at the unpleasant memory and the thought of all that blood but reflexes aren't something you can help when you've been alone and unused for your purpose a couple of decades.

Amo snaps his lid shut as the adventuring type Matthieu seems to spot him and resumes his nervous jittering until suddenly his cover is ripped free and he finds himself hurtling through the air towards a probably suprised looking goblin, he never really did stare too hard at any of his meals faces before promptly chowing down.

As he ends his his flight Amo snaps himself open from the bottom revealing his full 12 feet of height and fully opening his lid showcasing the innerworkings of his mouth, as he hits he screeches in a voice that one would imagine could come from a pile of gravel vomiting "MEAT!!!" and latches onto whatever he hits with his teeth.



http://orokos.com/roll/230601 (10+1aim+3 floor bonus) 14 to hit.

Successful Businessmanga fucked around with this message at 06:32 on Nov 14, 2014

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HBar
Sep 13, 2007



Koko
Health: 45
Armor: 11
Accuracy: +1

What if all go same time?

Koko stretches her arms wide to hold everyone side by side and then tries to herd the whole group together heading LRRLLRLLLR. But she also pays attention to Play Noise in case his nose says something different.

Arkanomen
May 6, 2007

All he wants is a hug

HBar posted:



Koko
Health: 45
Armor: 11
Accuracy: +1

What if all go same time?

Koko stretches her arms wide to hold everyone side by side and then tries to herd the whole group together heading LRRLLRLLLR. But she also pays attention to Play Noise in case his nose says something different.
Ghost of Xyz'ck Mk1
3/3 Haunts


Floating in the ether, a disembodied consciousness hovers near the gorilla. It has been terminated by its owners and replaced with the next model. A construct stripped of it's purpose has no purpose. But Xyz'ck Mk1 wasn't simply a construct. It had enough of a spirit to persist in death, maybe on its own or possibly through the tower's magic. It didn't matter, the ghost now had a purpose. It was going to haunt that monkey and haunt it until it paid for crushing it and ending it's ascension and evolution. Using a new found and improved ability to speak screamed and whispered through the veil between life and death where it was trapped, making sure to hold onto it's essence, hoping to demoralize Koko before it would strike.

"You don't really like apples do you? You just carry on because you're a clown"
"The dog hates you, it's going to kill you when you turn your back"
"What does a 500lb gorilla do? Nothing because you're fat"
"YOU KILLED ME! YOU KILLED ME! YOU KILLED ME! YOU KILLED ME! DIE DIE DIE DIEDIEDIEIDIEEIDIDDIEEEEEE!"
"I'm going to get you, but not before all your friends do. The one with the sword looks like he hates monkeys"
"WATCH OUT! HAHA no I'm kidding, there was nothing therLOOK OUT BEHIND YOU! Jokes on you."
*Incoherent screaming and flailing*

And so on, pausing once in a while to see if it had any effect. At least it made Xyz'ck feel better.

HBar
Sep 13, 2007



Jump Bug say help. Koko try help. Koko try help...

Koko stumbles and drops to one knee. Then she feels everyone in her arms, stands up straight again, and continues steadily on.

After a few steps she even reaches out for a moment to shepherd the ghost of Jump Bug back into the group, but she reflexively recoils instead of touching him again.

HBar fucked around with this message at 00:06 on Nov 14, 2014

Tsyni
Sep 1, 2004
Lipstick Apathy

Name - Adam
Health - 13 Armor - 14 Accuracy - +1
Skills - Anatomy, Hypnosis, Athletics
Bonus Talent - Super Speed

damage from fruit: 1d6 = 6

Adam makes sure the various tendon straps of his parachute are secured to his body and then approaches Bud K.

Adam's clawed finger moves back and forth slowly, rhythmically in front of the the fat human's face.

"You will fall, and you will die."

hypnotizes Bud K. 1d20+5+2 = 20

Tsyni fucked around with this message at 06:22 on Nov 19, 2014

Green Intern
Dec 29, 2008

Loon, Crazy and Laughable

Someone please kill the evil cannibal before he eats my dog.

Theantero
Nov 6, 2011

...We danced the Mamushka while Nero fiddled, we danced the Mamushka at Waterloo. We danced the Mamushka for Jack the Ripper, and now, Fester Addams, this Mamushka is for you....
Eh. Our wave already has two guys that haven't done anything since the second floor started. What's one more to the pile?

goodness
Jan 3, 2012

When the light turns green, you go. When the light turns red, you stop. But what do you do when the light turns blue with orange and lavender spots?
Character:

Artifact Roll: Plain as can freaking be

http://orokos.com/roll/232340: 1d100 2

Abyssal Squid
Jul 24, 2003

Tsyni posted:


Adam's clawed finger moves back and forth slowly, rhythmically in front of the the fat human's face.

"You will fall, and you will die," says Adam as he presses the button.

hypnotizes Bud K. into inaction 1d20+5+2 = 20

I knew this guy was trouble, it was such a good idea to antagonize him. :v:

Dog Kisser
Mar 30, 2005

But People have fears that beasts do not. Questions, too.
Valthax steps forward, knowing the truth of his claim in the very lattice of his crust. No other takes a step to prevent him from drawing forth his birthright - for that is what this artifact must be. Look, as he draws closer he can see it must be so - the blade is wider than he thought, the edge scalloped so as to better tear through the crust and filling of his foes. Stopping just before it, he impulsively stretches out his arm towards it, moving not an inch as it rises up to meet him. The chainmail slithers onto his dominant arm, binding it snugly (though comfortably) with a layer of protection, before continuing down to reinforce his tin. Flexing his arm experimentally, the heft of the blade feels like nothing at all. Congratulations, Valthax! As previously mentioned, you gain +2 to Accuracy, as well as Truth related powers you’ll uncover through experimenting with it. Truth, like so many things, is what you deem it to be, so push your boundaries and see what happens!

“WIELD CUTS-THROUGH-FALSEHOOD AS YOU WILL. IT IS BOUND TO YOU UNTO YOUR DEATH OR DISSOLUTION. YOU MAY PROCEED TO THE NEXT FLOOR.”

The Giantess drops her hammers and dusts off her hands. It was good to work.

-~~~-
“Valthax is the proud owner of a new… sword/armor conglomerate. It looks like the Giant of the Concept Forge is a force for good, highly unusual in this otherwise fiendish tower. Or perhaps it is merely a ruse, and the Artifact will turn out to be a trap? I suppose time will tell, my friends!”

---
“Onwards and downwards to the Second Wave, still in the Maze. The four remaining Second Wavers are doing something quite odd here - it looks like Bronan is trying to sit this one out, to take the curse unto himself and to let the others go on ahead! Admirable, but completely ins- Heavens above, Joe is getting in on this too! I’m not sure exactly what will happen if they keep lingering, but it can’t be good.”

“It looks like Koko is unwilling to let them be, and so she has scooped them up in her arms and dragged them, protesting, through the maze. Roscoe follows at her heels, yipping, seemingly guiding her away from the wrong paths - no doubt due to his formidable magical sense! Even so, it looks like something’s getting to her. Her eyes rolling wildly in fear, her group finds themself at a dead end! At least they’re all together!”


(No fun animation here - no need cause you're all together! The blue stars are where Roscoe was able to steer you guys on the right path!)


-~~~-
“Further down in the Falling Room, the Third Wave is taking things slowly and methodically. Chauncey has pulled a long loop of rope out of his pack and is looking at it with much deliberation. Surely he doesn’t think he can lower somebody down!? Tikkiti is meanwhile playing with the button without actually pressing it, much to the consternation of the others. However, even after trying to pry the button off with a knife, it refuses to budge. Tough luck, rat!”

“Bud looks like he’s trying something clever here - he certainly looks smug enough. Well, whatever it was, it looks like a failure, as well as a waste of fruit! That Geometer (Giovanni, remember?) is taking some sort of divination through the hole in the corner of the room. Probably studying the topology or somesuch nonsense. Whatever it was, he’s excitedly relaying it to the others - and Chauncey’s face just lit up. Now they’re both talking away.”

“Ho, ho, what’s going on here. Adam made his play! Homing in on the isolated Bud while the others are distracted, he must have cast some sort of enchantment on him - he’s gone and jumped through the hole! Now everyone is shouting and looking down and Adam just looks like the cat that got the canary.”

---
Chauncey knew the cannibal was no good, and this sealed it. No one saw anything, distracted as they were, but it must have been him! Thinking quickly, he called Giovanni over and told him the plan. If they could get to the gate before Bud hit the ground, he’d probably get sucked through to the next floor, and they’d all be safe!

Right?

---
Giovanni was ever one for adventure – after all, he had broken into this nominally impossible to break into tower – but he was less certain than Chauncey that his idea was going to work. He had done the calculations: they were a handful of kilometres off the ground, a rope simply wouldn’t reach. It didn’t matter that it was ‘a really good rope’, either. It was for that reason he found himself very surprised to be tying the rope around his waist and standing on the edge. He heard Chauncey’s voice over the blood rushing through his ears. “Alright, my good man, one, tw-“

-???-
Disjunction. Giovanni found himself on his hands and knees – beside the pool. On solid ground. Whipping his head around, he saw the flailing body of Bud as he fell, and over there the outside of the floating room. He felt around his waist where the rope was still tied – its length extending impossibly to the sky. What in the name of Zeno just happened!?
(Chauncey – 4 Turns left until Talent Recharges)

-~~~-
“Wow, that’s some Talent Chauncey’s got there – even if he doesn’t know what he’s packing! Wave Three has got some serious business going on, though not any less than the brand-new Fourth Wave! And what a motley crew it is! This tall fellow in the cloak has got one hell of a hunchback!”

“That roguish fellow Matthieu is trying his cowardly best to try to dissuade the goblins from attacking, instead directing them towards that masked fellow. Twinkledorf readies a fungal salvo, but it doesn’t look like he’ll have to use it – it turns out the hunchback is actually a duo, one of which looks almost identical to our recently deceased Xyz’ck! Ah, I’ve just been informed that this creature is actually the “Mark II” of whatever the hell Xyz’ck was. This weird box on his back is apparently also a Topseeker. I’ve seen weirder, I suppose.”

“Anyhow, in the shenanigans that ensue, the goblins charge towards Mark, leaving Matthieu and Twinkledorf unmolested. Longwei flies up on his stubby wings, smashing a fleeing group of goblins, then rolls in the ensuing mud, spreading it over his armored belly. With many of the goblins distracted, Cookie the Wizard manages to catch sight of the Shaman and try to wrest his Staff out of his grip – but the Shaman is too strong, or at least tenacious. He manages to keep hold, but he’s definitely not going to be able to do anything much if he wants to keep that Staff!”

“Ah, ‘Mark’ is doing something! Oh wow, our scryers detect gravitational wave anomalies – that’s high magitech. There goes the chest! The force of it bowls over the mudgoblins closest to him, but its still going - straight at the Shaman! He sees it coming and tries to lay a wall of mud inbetween them, but his hand is still stuck on the St- WOW, WHAT! That’s a Mimic! It just unfolded midflight and took the Shaman right in the chest - tore his hand right off his body! Or rather, his body right off his hand!?”

“Uh, the Shaman’s still alive, but with the Staff seperated from him he’s not going to be summoning anything else - the goblins collapse into mud once again. And the way the Mimic is crunching, even he won’t last too lon- oh, there we go. Flash of light from deep within the chest’s maw, flash of light from his severed hand. Alright, then. Well done Wave 4! The gateway to the next floor is upon you!”

Dog Kisser fucked around with this message at 02:48 on Nov 19, 2014

Successful Businessmanga
Mar 28, 2010

quote:

Amo the Shy
Health- 19 Armor - 11Accuracy - +1
Skills -
Appraisal, Devour, Interpretive dance.
Abilities -
Allure, Chameleon, Adhesive Slime.
Talent - Just Rewards.

Bliss, Amo revels in the glory of a good meal, his first proper feeding since that tragic accident back in the labs. Glancing over towards the gate as he picks hunks of flesh from his teeth with a shard of stripped femur Amo ponders the nature of what just happened not fully understanding why he had just flown through the air.

As the meaty afterglow begins to fade the sense that something is off slowly dawns on him and he notices the full group of Topseekers, a rather massive crowd compared to what he is used to, gathered around the battlefield he awkwardly full sprints back to Mark's side a severed goblin arm flying from his mouth off towards some hapless Topseeker. Amo gives Mark what passes for a sheepish look from a chest and a rowdy thumbs up as he skids to a stop retracting back into his compact form.



After his celebratory actions Amo pulls himself back up onto Mark's shoulders glancing around the mud field with a keen eye(???) he attempts to separate the mud wheat from the mud chaff looking for any treasures left on the battlefield.

http://orokos.com/roll/232891 20+3+5(appraisal)=28 :v:

Amo might not have sensory organs or anything but he sure looks at stuff good! If nothing turns up he'll try and signal Mark to head towards the gate.

Successful Businessmanga fucked around with this message at 19:54 on Nov 18, 2014

Music Theory
Aug 7, 2013

Avatar by Garden Walker

Music Theory posted:

Name - Chauncey
Race - Human
Class - Explorer
Health - 17
Armor - 13
Accuracy - +1

Skills - Athletics, Brawling, Acrobatics

Abilities - Fisticuffs, Dodge, Identify (Determines properties of the target)

Talent - Rescue: Somehow moves something to or away from Chauncey. An example would be throwing a person to a distant platform, or magnetically attracting a rare artifact from a distant era.

Motto - "Look, a rare statuette from the Wyrm Rebellion Era!"

AI Action - First, get any artifacts. Failing that or if there are none, rescue someone dramatically, or even undramatically. If none of these apply, investigate the surrounding area or punch something.

Mystery - Dashing, Britannia, pith helmet, Cunningly, Archeologist

FLOOR: 3, THE FALLING ROOM

Inventory:
  • Spear
  • Climbing Claws (+2 to climbing, +1 to melee accuracy)

"Collect yourself and get swimming, Giovanni!"

Chauncey hoists himself past the nearest piece of the elevator towards the lake using his climbing claws!

7

Let's hope Giovanni is a good swimmer.


Woops, apparently the elevator hasn't crumbled yet, so...

"Collect yourself and get swimming, Giovanni!"

Chauncey leaps out of the elevator towards the lake! Not downward, just forward and slightly up.

6 (1d20+5)

:negative:

Let's hope Giovanni is a good sprinter...

Music Theory fucked around with this message at 02:41 on Nov 21, 2014

Arkanomen
May 6, 2007

All he wants is a hug


Name - Xyz'ck-MK.2 "Mark"
Health - 22
Armor - 14
Accuracy - +1

The pulse worked flawlessly. Mark's creators we're pleased, flooding its body with reward compounds and stimulants. The haze of reinforcement faded as Amo bounded up onto Mark's back, spattering gore and goblin bits all over. Picking a stray pinky from the mass, Mark picks at it as Amo clambers up his back. Suddenly the long finger of Amo taps Mark's shoulder and points off into the mud. Happy to oblige the mimic, Mark ambles off in the direction Amo indicates, searching along with him.

Search roll 1d20+3: 21

http://orokos.com/roll/232899

Dog Kisser
Mar 30, 2005

But People have fears that beasts do not. Questions, too.

Music Theory posted:

"Collect yourself and get swimming, Giovanni!"

Chauncey hoists himself past the nearest piece of the elevator towards the lake using his climbing claws!

7

Let's hope Giovanni is a good swimmer.

Elevator (not an elevator just a floating room) hasn't fallen yet - all pieces are in one big piece currently

Abyssal Squid
Jul 24, 2003


Bud K.:
Health
- 24 Armor - 13 Acurracy - 1 [+2]
Skills: Tactical Pants, Slice Dice and Sever, SICK POSE
Talent: Sharper Image [4 turns]
Inventory: Blue Strawberry (B5), Blue Burr Acorn (C6)

The world was a blur around Bud. In part because he was falling at 100 mph, in part because he'd just gotten his mind scrambled. The finger. The ground! Yes the ground is getting closer, hooray! The jaws...

Does Bud have enough Presence of Mind to shake himself free of the befuddlement? 1d20+2=14

The spine...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g2JNxeWO_wA

Bud started blinking rapidly. The Harvester...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t6Mzaimi0bY

What does it mean?

Green Intern
Dec 29, 2008

Loon, Crazy and Laughable

I'm not exactly clear where all of us are in the maze.

Dog Kisser
Mar 30, 2005

But People have fears that beasts do not. Questions, too.

Green Intern posted:

I'm not exactly clear where all of us are in the maze.

I'll upload the picture today - simply didn't have access to a computer with photo editing stuff when I was writing

Zybourne Clock
Oct 25, 2011

Poke me.


So the wooden chest is a mimic. Cookie already wondered why the purple beast was lugging around a chest with him. The chest's true nature only raised further questions, but the wizard found them too impertinent to ask. He was all too happy that floor 1 was a mostly bloodless affair. That was all that mattered to him.

He knew from watching some of the earlier topseeker waves that duplicate items cannot exist. The goblin wizard's staff was still in some other topseeker's possession making it a pointless affair to go look for it. Still, it wasn't out of the question that the goblin had other magical trinkets laying about on this floor, hidden from plain sight. The idea merited a further examination.

Cookie produced a small glass orb from one of the folds of his robe and spoke the words to a divination spell.



It lit up with a chaotic vortex of sparks and light. Cookie's conscious form temporarily left his body to explore every nook and cranny of the first floor. He looked under every rock and behind every goblin corpse, prioritizing magic items.

Cookie the Wizard
Health: 20 - Armor: 11 - Accuracy: +1
(Use divination spell to find magical items, 1d20+5+3=26, http://orokos.com/roll/232971)

Theantero
Nov 6, 2011

...We danced the Mamushka while Nero fiddled, we danced the Mamushka at Waterloo. We danced the Mamushka for Jack the Ripper, and now, Fester Addams, this Mamushka is for you....


Name: Giovanni
Race: Human
Class: Arcane Geometer
Health: 17
Armor: 14
Accuracy: +1
Talent Recharge: 2

Giovanni was dumbstruck. Had this non-geometer just performed a complicated dimensional transportation sequence? With implied topomantic effects taken the rope? All without access to chart or reference, and at extended range in nominal space? How? Giovanni made a mental note to ask him about that later on, for he had more pressing concerns right now.

Released from his reverie, Giovanni took a slow, almost contemptuous look at the body of water in front of him. All his notes were waterproof of course, but he did not fancy himself a swimmer. Thankfully, there was an easier way to deal with the issue at hand than having to resort to physical exercise. He withdrew the notes he took previously, and started to scribble and incant.

With the morphologic layout of the floor fresh in his mind, he knew the exact location of the gate. It was at the bottom of the pool. And he decided to prove that the bottom of the pool was above the waterline. Connected to the shore with a convenient land bridge, of course. There was no sense in getting oneself wet like some sort of illiterate philistine after all.

Topomancy: 1d20+5+2: 20

Giovanni gave his falling companion an appraisive glance in the midst of his calculations. Maybe he would even have some time to study the gate itself?

Dammerung
Oct 17, 2008

"Dang, that's hot."


quote:



Longwei
Health: 18
Armor: 13
Accuracy: +1
Skills: Interior decorating, resisting poison, digging
Abilities: Nature's sting, breath of the Titan Arum, amorphous algae assault
Talent: Might of the morass.

Yawning loudly, Longwei stretches his plump body, content now that he was out of danger. He shifts and grunts happily as the other topseekers go about their business, and sets his mind to one of his favorite activities: digging.

Although clumsy and ungainly in most circumstances, Longwei was capable of... well, still being clumsy and ungainly while he did it, but digging extremely effectively. He taps at the ground beneath him with his enormous claws, and, once satisfied with the way it felt, begins to burrow himself a cozy little divot. Maybe he'd find something useful beneath the soil, but even if he didn't, the act of digging was enormously comforting.

Digging: 16+5+3 = 24

LaSalsaVerde
Mar 3, 2013

quote:

Twinkledorf, the Dank Druid

Name - Twinkledorf
Health - 17
Armor - 13
Accuracy - +1
Skills - Stealth, Perception, Mycology
Talent - Humongous Fungus Abundance

The svirfneblin casually places his hands in his pockets, sighing with relief as the goblins are summarily dealt with. The moment he feels safe enough to move, Twinkledorf advances with a relaxed pace, keeping his eyes on the corpses and the surrounding area. Along the way he uses a particularly sharp rock to slough off some of the goblins' mud-flesh, tossing it into his backpack for later.

Looking around for whatever. (Perception): 1d20+5+3 20

HiHo ChiRho
Oct 23, 2010


Name - Mr. Pat Miyagi
Health - 42
Armor - 16
Accuracy - +1
Skills - Stealth, Jump, Acrobatics

Pat takes a look around, confused.

"Hey, where did that young famished gentleman run off to? Oh well!"

Moving right allllong

Music Theory
Aug 7, 2013

Avatar by Garden Walker

dog kisser posted:

Elevator (not an elevator just a floating room) hasn't fallen yet - all pieces are in one big piece currently

Edited.

Successful Businessmanga
Mar 28, 2010

Watch out Tower wave 4 is apparently a hard hitting rolling machine! :v: We then proceed to crit-fail the rest of the game. :gonk:

Nyaa
Jan 7, 2010
Like, Nyaa.

:colbert:

Sharpener Joe

"You know what? If no one here cares about being first and Brohan still wants to be last, we could just follow the dog until we find the right door... Or take this opportunity to rest ourselves until the dog finds the door. We really shouldn't let the tower god have his way and compete with each other. Teamwork, yes? We really need each other to get to the top TOGETHER!"

FRIENDSHIP SPEECH: 15

Edit: Also countering Xyz'ck's curse.

Dog Kisser
Mar 30, 2005

But People have fears that beasts do not. Questions, too.

dog kisser posted:


(No fun animation here - no need cause you're all together! The blue stars are where Roscoe was able to steer you guys on the right path!)

Wave 2/Maze People, I updated you with a picture! You're lost!

Arkanomen
May 6, 2007

All he wants is a hug
Ghost of Xyz'ck Mk1
3/3 Haunts


The burning hatred of the damned monkey is fueling the vengeful ghost of the Mark.1. Anchored to the material world by the blood spilled by Koko's hands, he continues to spew nothing but epithets and hate, content to wait until her worst moment to lash out with all that is left of its essence. Though the aura of friendship and love radiates strong with the group and keeps Mark.1 at arms length, it still flails in hatred.

"HAHA YOU'RE LOST YOU STUPID APE!"
"THE HALF NAKED MAN IS WAITING TO BETRAY YOU! LOOK BEHIND YOU NOW!"
"I'LL BE WAITING FOR YOU KOKO!"
"The dog is really going to turn on you. Why tell you this? Because you wont' believe me, and when it happens it will be all the sweeter."
"Remember all the awkward moments in your life. HAHA SEE ! now they are all there in your mind. No Distraction!"
*assorted Ghoulish noises and creaks*

DivineCoffeeBinge
Mar 3, 2011

Spider-Man's Amazing Construction Company
Bronan

"Teamwork, bros! Bros before dead science-abominations!" Bronan has given up on struggling with Koko to be left alone; the heck with it, finding the end as a group could be interesting too. "What happens if we all cross the finish line at, like, the last instant?"

Kyyp
Jan 14, 2007


Tikkiti. Health: 34. Armor: 14. Accuracy +1.
Inventory: Shaman Bow. Shaman Arrow (x2). Smoky Potion.


Tikkiti reeeeallly wants that button, for some reason.

Finder's Keepers!: 1d4 = 1

Too bad he's really awful at getting it!

Green Intern
Dec 29, 2008

Loon, Crazy and Laughable


Roscoe
Health - 38
Armor - 12
Accuracy - +1

Roscoe runs around the group. They were on the right path! Were being the important word. It was time to retrace their steps, and get moving! And if they all wanted to stick together, well, packs are always stronger than a lone dog.

Roscoe keeps close to Koko's heels, occasionally dashing ahead to get a good scent of the path and giving a warning bark if it seems like a dead end. But things are getting a little overwhelming, and he can't seem to get a good fix.

On the Trail: 1d20+1 7

HBar, are you giving directions from the start, or from our current position? I'm fine just doing QA on the moves. Also crap. Low rolls have to happen sometime.

HBar
Sep 13, 2007



Koko held tight to everyone as they struggled onwards.

She couldn't bear to look left, that's where Jump Bug was hovering. So she only initiated right turns this time.

RRRRRRRRRR

HBar
Sep 13, 2007

Green Intern posted:

HBar, are you giving directions from the start, or from our current position? I'm fine just doing QA on the moves. Also crap. Low rolls have to happen sometime.
I assume we're heading back to the last junction with an unvisited path and starting from there.

Tsyni
Sep 1, 2004
Lipstick Apathy

Name - Adam
Health - 13 Armor - 14 Accuracy - +1
Skills - Anatomy, Hypnosis, Athletics
Bonus Talent - Super Speed

Adam throws his parachute down in disgust. Just him and the rat left up here. Juicy...little...rat.

Luckily there is a more nutritious option. His parachute was not only fortified for flight, but fortified for feeding, with all the best bits of viscera found rotting at the bottom of that well.

begins to consume the parachute for health 1d20+2 = 16

Nyaa
Jan 7, 2010
Like, Nyaa.

:colbert:
Sharpener Joe

"I dunno, bro. But we should totally cross through the door like the group walk thing in Wizard of Oz, which is what the gorilla is trying to do?"

deedee megadoodoo
Sep 28, 2000
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I, I took the one to Flavortown, and that has made all the difference.


I can't make heads or tails of what is going on here. I never saw any reference to Wave 4 which I think I'm part of, but I honestly can't tell.

Dog Kisser
Mar 30, 2005

But People have fears that beasts do not. Questions, too.

HatfulOfHollow posted:

I can't make heads or tails of what is going on here. I never saw any reference to Wave 4 which I think I'm part of, but I honestly can't tell.

wave 4 just beat the shaman, but I totally forgot to include Ordo! I thought I had counted everyone, but he slipped my mind - apologies! Feel free to take an action now - everyone else in your wave is looking for treasure currently

deedee megadoodoo
Sep 28, 2000
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I, I took the one to Flavortown, and that has made all the difference.


I think I missed the part where we actually got started. Did I come in after wave 4 had already began? Because the first reference I see to Wave 4 is in the middle of the action. I'm not really sure what I'm doing right now.

Dog Kisser
Mar 30, 2005

But People have fears that beasts do not. Questions, too.

dog kisser posted:



Passing through the gate, you find yourself - impossibly - in the centre of a circular field, flowers stretching to the horizon. In every direction, you see scattered stone pillars carved with strange symbols. You can somehow also see the tower in the distance.

At this point, even flowers further from the centre are trampled, and a shocking amount of blood and entrails are spattered all over. All but two of the stone pillars have been freshly knocked to the ground or broken, and overall it’s obvious a pitched battle (or three) has just taken place. All around you, you can hear guttural chanting and the scrape of metal blades on the pillars. For a moment there is stillness…

Then you are swarmed by dozens of goblins with spears.

Fourth Wave! You have seen three groups run through the first couple of floors, so correspondingly you have +3 to all rolls until you catch up to them. Make good use of it!

dog kisser posted:

“Wow, that’s some Talent Chauncey’s got there – even if he doesn’t know what he’s packing! Wave Three has got some serious business going on, though not any less than the brand-new Fourth Wave! And what a motley crew it is! This tall fellow in the cloak has got one hell of a hunchback!”

“That roguish fellow Matthieu is trying his cowardly best to try to dissuade the goblins from attacking, instead directing them towards that masked fellow. Twinkledorf readies a fungal salvo, but it doesn’t look like he’ll have to use it – it turns out the hunchback is actually a duo, one of which looks almost identical to our recently deceased Xyz’ck! Ah, I’ve just been informed that this creature is actually the “Mark II” of whatever the hell Xyz’ck was. This weird box on his back is apparently also a Topseeker. I’ve seen weirder, I suppose.”

“Anyhow, in the shenanigans that ensue, the goblins charge towards Mark, leaving Matthieu and Twinkledorf unmolested. Longwei flies up on his stubby wings, smashing a fleeing group of goblins, then rolls in the ensuing mud, spreading it over his armored belly. With many of the goblins distracted, Cookie the Wizard manages to catch sight of the Shaman and try to wrest his Staff out of his grip – but the Shaman is too strong, or at least tenacious. He manages to keep hold, but he’s definitely not going to be able to do anything much if he wants to keep that Staff!”

“Ah, ‘Mark’ is doing something! Oh wow, our scryers detect gravitational wave anomalies – that’s high magitech. There goes the chest! The force of it bowls over the mudgoblins closest to him, but its still going - straight at the Shaman! He sees it coming and tries to lay a wall of mud inbetween them, but his hand is still stuck on the St- WOW, WHAT! That’s a Mimic! It just unfolded midflight and took the Shaman right in the chest - tore his hand right off his body! Or rather, his body right off his hand!?”

“Uh, the Shaman’s still alive, but with the Staff seperated from him he’s not going to be summoning anything else - the goblins collapse into mud once again. And the way the Mimic is crunching, even he won’t last too lon- oh, there we go. Flash of light from deep within the chest’s maw, flash of light from his severed hand. Alright, then. Well done Wave 4! The gateway to the next floor is upon you!”

That's the extent of the Fourth Wave stuff so far - and yeah I just totally spaced on mentioning Ordo. Other people in your wave - Cookie the Wizard, Longwei the (Terrible) Dragon, Amo the Shy the Mimic, Mark II the Mistake of Science, Matthieu the Thief, and Twinkledorf the Deep Gnome

Nyaa
Jan 7, 2010
Like, Nyaa.

:colbert:

Nyaa posted:

Sharpener Joe

"I dunno, bro. But we should totally cross through the door like the group walk thing in Wizard of Oz"


We're off to see the lord, The Wonderful lord of tower,
We hear he is a bore of a lord, if ever a lord there was,
If ever, oh ever a lord there was, The lord of tower is one because,
Because, because, because, because, because,
Because of the wonderful things he does,
We're off to see the lord, The Wonderful lord of tower,
do do do do do do do do do do do~


SING A SONG TOGETHER! JOIN IN!
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Nyaa fucked around with this message at 02:49 on Nov 20, 2014

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Arkanomen
May 6, 2007

All he wants is a hug
Mark 1 is an incorporeal ghost and also an aberration of hate and vengeance focused on Koko, but sure. Mark will come along, singing vulgar insults to the tune.


We're off to kill the monkey, The Horrible Ape, Koko
We hear he did in old x-zyz, if ever a crime there was
If ever, oh ever a simian dud, The Horrible Ape Koko is one because
Because, because, because, because, because
Because of the horrible murder he done
We're off to kill the monkey, The Horrible Ape, Koko
do do do do do do do do do do do

Arkanomen fucked around with this message at 04:30 on Nov 20, 2014

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