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Basscop posted:These demons have been down here for exactly many-many-lots of centuries. Maybe that's why this one's screaming so bad? 
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Actually - are the presences moving up and down together, in concert? Or just scattershot? I do wonder if that's going to escalate into an attempt to quake the hole or stairs closed, whatever they are.
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Harvey Baldman posted:Actually - are the presences moving up and down together, in concert? Or just scattershot? I do wonder if that's going to escalate into an attempt to quake the hole or stairs closed, whatever they are. Maybe the bad guys are played by another forum. Diog: "You sense a terrifically powerful presence above, a number of smaller ones go with it. They're broken through the shield dome!" Other forum: "Engage the enemy more closely." Diog: "There is a great chasm that is too wide for you to jump, you hope the invader can't jump it either but from the feel this is what the humans called a "Mighty Man" A being of pure, destructive power and it is here, now." Other Forum: "OH poo poo! gently caress. Ok, Get "Screams good" to distract them while the rest of us jump up and down and try to collapse the cavern." 'What, with us in it?' 'Yes! There's no time!' 'Preemptively calling this 'Jumpgate'' 'Whatever, jump!'
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Ouroborus posted:Maybe the bad guys are played by another forum. Makes sense that the Capybaras would have their own forums.
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Task Manager posted:It's fairly tough for us to gauge threat levels as well (which does seem to be a conscious choice on the part of our GM), since just about everything which is fairly nasty is rated on a scale of "Nightmare fuel" to "Indescribable Horror". Imperialist Dog posted:Throw torches at the demon and then throw Uriah at it. Slightly Lions posted:F, but if nothing changes, D. Tomn posted:I'm not entirely sure what to do here, but...two legged being, feels extremely wrong, trapped beneath a godshield in the ruins of an ancient city? You guys think we might be dealing with something not unlike ourselves what gave in to the hunger? 2. You hear distant and occasional drips of water. Otherwise, no. Beside your Balls yelling threats, battle cries or jokes to each other. Diogines fucked around with this message at 21:34 on Jun 24, 2015 |
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Diogines posted:The one... COMING TO GET YOU!  BOOGA BOOGA BOOGAquote:It has the Holy Power of A Clay Ball Which Looks Like Paint Wore Off Partially From Time Or Maybe Moisture or Both. Which is to say, some more of the paint flaked off when you picked it up. Say.... does it look anything like the clay balls Indor had in her shop that caused an explosion?
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Ouroborus posted:Maybe the bad guys are played by another forum. 
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Diogines posted:The one... COMING TO GET YOU! Order our Balls to hide under the covers. Let's see this thing try and tear through our safety blanket.
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I am going to laugh so hard if this terrifying presence is just a really cool, chill undead king and his people who some other monsters cursed and locked away for many-lots time.
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ColonelMuttonchops posted:Order our Balls to hide under the covers. Let's see this thing try and tear through our safety blanket. Things are not yet so dire. The night light is with us.
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When the undead twisted demonic once-human finally rounds the top of this spiral staircase, throw a blanket over it! And then stab it. And then ROAST IT AND EAT IT for the glory of El Do not forget that El sends demons to test us. Do we run away, or do we feast?
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I dunno that anyone is debating fighting the dude. Just whether...ya know...fighting it someplace other than a half-assedly constructed cavern with one torch might be a good call.
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Question: Is there a reason why we're voting to advance WITH the Balls to see what's up? I have my doubts about the wisdom of leaving a good (and known) defensive position to blunder down towards an unknown threat in an unknown area with an unknown layout. Wouldn't some kind of scouting make more sense? Voting D, by the way. Also, come to think of it, some folks have speculated that this thing, and the other Presences, isn't coming on because of a big ol' chasm of some kind. What do you guys want to bet that the Mighty Corpse pulled a "You Shall Not Pass!" dealie and broke a bridge or staircase behind him specifically to trap the demons in the dark?
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Ouroborus posted:Maybe the bad guys are played by another forum. I really want this to be true. B, btw Also, zombie demon things are totally doing Russian squat dances, duh.
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Then at least we can go take a safe look. If we see a city of extremely angry skeletons and zombies screaming for our flesh then yeah, we can go out.
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Hm. Come to think of it, continual movement up and down...could be the result of wave motion, either because the Presences are atop a pool of water or more likely, because they're hanging off a rope or something. A group of ritually hanged Mighty Men that's been set in motion by the movements of the big bad? Diog, is there any pattern we can discern to the layout of the smaller, bobbing Presences? For that matter, can we sense any pattern to their movement, i.e. a wave of motion from one Presence to another, or something like?
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Jun 25, 2015 01:22
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D Scout ahead a bit.
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Tomn posted:Question: Is there a reason why we're voting to advance WITH the Balls to see what's up? I have my doubts about the wisdom of leaving a good (and known) defensive position to blunder down towards an unknown threat in an unknown area with an unknown layout. Wouldn't some kind of scouting make more sense? Voting D, by the way. The guy was not mighty in any meaningful way, seven foot tall and five fingers.
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Diogines posted:El damnit. There is something DEEPLY wrong about whatever the El this thing is. Its Presence is not overwhelming, whatever it is, you are reasonably sure you are not facing something as powerful as Tudiya or the Doom of Tanaach, but trying to focus upon it is DEEPLY unsettling. You should leave. It is getting closer. Your Balls heft their shields up. You can hear its rhythm, whatever this thing is, it is definitely on two legs. From what bits you can feel from your ability to detect Presences, it seems to be coming in a straight line? You grabbed the necklace and ring from the skeleton and placed them in a belt on your waste, doing your best not to overly disturb the bones. Your Balls seemed a little disturbed at the corpse, Paebel hazarding "Maybe it was a demon slave?" Asahel says "Maybe there was a revolt?" Obviously it is not one of Zepa's or Labaras's sons, the corpse is far too small and there are too few fingers. The armor, to your men at least, is obviously from your civilization, even if it looks... a bit different. The thing has... stopped moving, yet still lets out its unholy shrieking, like a tortured thing on fire, yet undying. You yell your men "Come on brothers! Can you not hear its fear of us? The battle is nearly done! Advance!" This gets a cheer from your Balls as you jog down the steep stone stairs and your men give a shout of "EEELLL!" or "KAVODEL!" On your run down the flights of stairs you pass other corpses on the way down, bones which have long sat still. None are armored, some are obviously small enough to be children, others, it is unclear, maybe women?  You are busy leading a charge down a staircase. You and your Balls avoid them as best you can but are not entirely successful and some crunch beneath the sandals. Round and round you go down the flights of stairs, the shrieking growing closer each moment. You round a corner and you see your foe!  The shape of a man... barely, its flesh disfigured and lifeless, its eyes empty and hollow, claws where its fingers and toes should be, its mouth disfigured and turn to daggers. Why this horror did not climb the stairs is unclear, what is clear is its immense strength as it LEAPS on top of you, in the middle of your formation! Your Balls stab spears into it, their shafts breaking on its flesh without effect and a moment later you are barreled over on your back and at least one of your two Balls behind you by the force of this monstrosity!  As you rise to your feet you hear the CRUNCH of bronze snapping and hear an ear piercing cry of AGONY a foot away as someone cries out "ENKIDEEAAAAAAAAAAAGHHHHHHH!!!!!" and terror STRIKES AT YOUR SOUL! Sibbekai has been with you since your first goblin hunt, once a farmer and now a landlord in Kavodel. He has been beside you in every battle and grown great in your service. His fine and expensive breastplate has been split asunder and his throat torn out, you see a blue vapor spill out among the blood and into this horrors greedy mouth! KASHAL! Uriah yells... something as he smashes down at the creatures back HARD with his fists, you feel the power of his word and see this monstrosity sinks to the floor! The strength of that blow should have shattered stone and flesh alike, more spears thrust into the back of this monstrosity and shatter as if it were made of stone. The creature looks entirely unharmed and is already rising back to its feet. You hear a CRACK as one of your men smash their sword into this demons neck with such force that the blade breaks off at the hilt. Back on your feet and one of your Balls dying, dead or possible... worse, you smash into the creature as HARD as you can with your shield! You drive the creature down the last of the stairs and into the landing beyond, a large hallway. The creature tries to slash at you but you have lifted it off the ground entirely with your shield, such was the force of your blow and you SMASH it into a stone wall, splinters CRACKING along its surface from your blow! You are in a large underground chamber, the ceiling is about thirty feet tall. The chamber is long, hundreds, possibly a few thousand feet long, going on and on. You see large evenly spaced doorways line the end of the hallway, each look to be sealed with giant stone blocks, square, twenty feet on a side. There are probably other details which may be of note but you are a LITTLE distracted as this horror which you have pinned to the wall pushes back and knocks you off it with a vicious blow! BUT YOU ARE NOT DONE YET! You SMASH your shield into its chest again HARD! Nahari has pinned its left arm with his shield and Ithma its right, the three of you can BARELY keep this thing pinned against the wall as Uriah SMASHES the thing in the face with his fists, its head CRACKING against the wall behind it and CRACKING the stone as well! Somewhere behind you, you are vaguely aware that Paebel is tending to the dead or dying Sibbekai, yet it is hopeless. You struggle to keep this monstrosity pinned as it struggles, kicks and snaps at you and your men. Blow after blow after blow, blood flies off of Uriah's fists, his own. He knows the "Mighty" ability to harden, which he seems to be using on his fists at this moment. Tudiya would probably be proud, if he did not dislike Uriah anyway. Nahari and Ithma can also harden their weapons, they learned to do so from their Mighty Men relatives. This horror you face does not seem deterred in the slightest from Uriah's assault, enough to turn a boulder to gravel, this demons accursed and unnatural flesh shows not the least bit of injury, nor has the fury of its struggle deceased at all. You do not see any other of these... things and there are no other obvious threats at this moment but you are a LITTLE distracted and focusing on keeping this thing from killing you. This thing is immensely unnatural and every instinct you have for self preservation tells you to run for your life! The shrieking, the terrible shrieking from this creature has not ceased! Twelve... like terrible daggers, this thing has six on each hand! 1. You... A. "URIAH! KEEP AT IT!" Uriah should keep bashing this thing in the face, give it time! B. "BALLS! RETREAT!" Order EVERYONE else to retreat, you will try to keep this thing pinned while your men escape. C. "BALLS! RETREAT! Brothers, buy them time!" Order everyone EXCEPT Uriah, Ithma and Nahari, you'll keep fighting. D. "KEEP AT IT BROTHERS! The rest of you, find SOMETHING! Search!" The three of you will keep this thing pinned while Uriah whails on it, your other Balls will search the area for some clue on how to kill this thing, or otherwise search for SOMETHING which might help you! E. "MOVE IT!" The four of you will try to ram this thing down the long hallway, hoping to find some natural obstacle like a hole to dump it in, or maybe a giant stone you can use to pin it!?! F. "URIAH! LIGHT IT UP!" Uriah can breathe fire. Order him to do so, at this thing. It is taking the strength of you and your Mighty Men to keep this thing pinned. None of you are fire proof. Prepare to be torched. G. F. ...actually ...one of you may be fire proof.... briefly. Maybe. You. Ishamal has taught you how to prevent injury to your body by use of Water from your Well. This is the most costly ability you can... somewhat invoke. Your ability to use it is far from mastered and requires intense concentration. You have never tried to use it in real danger before. If you suceed, a large amount of Water will be lost. H. "PAEBEL! Stab it!" Paebel has a charm he bought from Indor many years ago from Indor. Jobe has one too. It is a tiny copper knife styled like a greatsword. Indor said it would "scare away the least of demons, if your faith is true. If it is not, it is useless." Whether or not you think these things actually work? Who can say. This requires Paebel getting close enough to touch the thing, a kick from this thing will probably cripple Paebel. I. RUN IN TEROR! RUN! RUN! Abandon our Balls and run for your life! J. "URIAH! HOLD IT! I'LL BE BACK!" Tell Uriah to take your place. The hallway is lined with doorways which look to be sealed with giant stone blocks, twenty feet on a side. Try to pull one out and then dump it atop the creature! K. J., but send Uriah to do it. Or try to. They look pretty heavy. L. PANIC! Probably appropriate under the circumstances! M. Something else. Fill in. N. Give Uriah your shield to smash it in the face instead! O. Tell Uriah to hold it, you will smash it in the face with your shield instead! P. Tell Uriah to try to melt just its head with fire. You, Nahari and Ithma will turn your heads as best you can, your exposed flesh will still be scorched. If you want to, feel free to join us on irc #madgod on synirc.net. The channel tends to always have some people in it and is especially active when updates go up. If you do not know what IRC is, here is a web based chat version which will not require you to register or download anything: http://chat.mibbit.com/ Diogines fucked around with this message at 16:42 on Jun 25, 2015 |
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A + everyone chanting the El Melek line
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M:  Unhinge our jaw. Swallow it whole.
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Can we move it upstairs? It seemed reluctant to go up. Unless it was smart enough to bait us downstairs.
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Arkanomen posted:A + everyone chanting the El Melek line Some corner of your mind, perhaps only your own doubts, tells you that you have prostrated your face upon the floor before demons and defied the highest of El's commandments. You say no... no, it was not worship but some small corner of your heart calls you a liar, feckless and faithless. El will not help you. You are not worthy of his aid... you swear you almost hear a faint whisper of Jobe's voice in your ears, perhaps only your fears as you face this demon, that El has abandoned you? Diogines posted:You hired the finest craftsmen, quaried the finest marble and imported the finest, sturdiest cedars. You have spared no expense in the construction of the Temple of El in Kavodel, a rival to any temple in the region. Vast riches you have pulled from the ground and all of it you have used to build this monumental edifice to honor El. Tudiya could not be prouder of you. Jobe has just returned from Zepath, he had to get Zebanetha's blessing to make this great structure a part of the official temple hierarchy. But that is a formality at best, the blessing of the House of El for this grand temple is all but assured. When Jobe tells you that the House of El denies its blessing for the building, you fly into a rage and smash the stone benches in the temple in a fit of rage, demanding to know of Jobe "WHY!? WHY?! WHY HAVE THEY DENIED ME?!"
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Oh dear. Looks like we have an emptied well on our hands. Arkanomen posted:A + everyone chanting the El Melek line Voting this. Write-in: Get one of our bronze arrows and punch it into it's brain.
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Diogines posted:Some corner of your mind, perhaps only your own doubts, tells you that you have prostrated your face upon the floor before demons and defied the highest of El's commandments. You say no... no, it was not worship but some small corner of your heart calls you a liar, feckless and faithless. El will not help you. You are not worthy of his aid... you swear you almost hear a faint whisper of Jobe's voice in your ears, perhaps only your fears as you face this demon, that El has abandoned you? That's what you were talking about there, right? Bugs? Bitey-things? It's what it sounded like.
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quote:Some corner of your mind, perhaps only your own doubts, tells you that you have prostrated your face upon the floor before demons and defied the highest of El's commandments. You say no... no, it was not worship but some small corner of your heart calls you a liar, feckless and faithless. El will not help you. You are not worthy of his aid... you swear you almost hear a faint whisper of Jobe's voice in your ears, perhaps only your fears as you face this demon, that El has abandoned you? This corner of our mind is dumb and should shut-up. We disobeyed man's traditions, not El's. (For the record, this part of Enkidel's mind voted not to bow.)
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Aades posted:Can we move it upstairs? It seemed reluctant to go up. Unless it was smart enough to bait us downstairs. It is night. If you hope that sunlight will roast it(someone suggested that demons may fear sunlight yesterday?), there is no sunlight. It does not seem infeasible, with you and your Mighty Men.
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Diogines posted:You join your father for breakfast at his home. He reminds you again to "Learn what you can of the demons in that place. Everything you can find will be of interest. I think you may have need for this, here." He lifts his shield from beside the table and hands it to you. You recognize the shield. It is the shield Tudiya brought with him to Athar long ago, the same one you saw him use when he faced the minotaurs and other dangers. Edit: Diog has made my write-in Option O - for vote counters sake, Edit edit: changed later, O is probably not gonna work. Task Manager fucked around with this message at 03:35 on Jun 25, 2015 |
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J and point out a chamber that does NOT have a presence behind it if we can
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I'd like to say "we told you so" to the people who voted to prostrate ourselves before the not-god after El performed a miracle. I'm not sure if any of us did though.
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Task Manager posted:M - trade with Uriah, and smash the "unbreakable shield while held by one of our line" into its face repeatedly with the strength of 125 men until it stops moving or we prove Tudiya a liar. Voting This 
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Diogines posted:Some corner of your mind, perhaps only your own doubts, tells you that you have prostrated your face upon the floor before demons and defied the highest of El's commandments. You say no... no, it was not worship but some small corner of your heart calls you a liar, feckless and faithless. El will not help you. You are not worthy of his aid... you swear you almost hear a faint whisper of Jobe's voice in your ears, perhaps only your fears as you face this demon, that El has abandoned you? gently caress that and gently caress YOU A EL gently caress THE HATERS
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Diogines posted:You can try to maneuver it there, up a hundred or so feet of steep stairs. Question for Diog: When Uriah hits it do we notice any fluctuations in presence? It might be hardening itself.
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M. Take a bite out of it
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DCBomB posted:M. Take a bite out of it As an aside we need to get Tudiyah to warm up to Uriah. He's obviously Mighty as gently caress but he should get training. Edit: If this is some sort of Mighty revenant there's only one way we're going to kill it, we're going to have to keep hitting it and hitting it and hitting it until it is a paste. Ouroborus fucked around with this message at 02:41 on Jun 25, 2015 |
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