I Have Diagrams - May 10, 2024

- Royals (Baseball shirt?!)

- "Maybe your previous life was as a gay kid to Mormons." "No."

- "You've heard of quiet quitting? Stop doing his job for him." Strong staring.

- Stories about Emotional-Support Chris

- Story about No Pants DnD that one time

 

- From their hiding places in the jungle, people with a Perception roll over 20, they can hear another mechanical dragonfly flying about looking for them.

- Ràian casts Greater Invisibility on Rusty and he goes to try to talk to the dragonfly again and he goes sprinting off 

- He stops after about 12 seconds to get away from the rest of the group, and then stops and listens again

- He goes to head in the direction of it again, when he is tackled by a metallic panther.

- He speaks to the panther, "Hi, you're a big metal kitty. We're friendly. We come in peace." 

- It lifts it head and makes some kind of noise, and then there's a chittering sort of sound and there are mechanical spiders coming for him.

- Rusty asks Tiff's opinion on if he can smash the 'bots. She asks him not to.

- He asks the panther / spiders if he promises to come quietly if they can skip the tying him up part, and the panther gives him a nod and a "but don't make me fuck you up" sort of look, which is impressive since it's metal.

- Osiris manages to follow Rusty's path while her friends take care of making sure she and Tina don't give their positions away.

- Lyrielle gets the impression, the feeling, that something is tracking them back and says so quietly.

- Osiris looks up and sees up in that tree over there, there's another metal panther tracking them.

- She casts Tongues on herself and tells it that they are following to make sure their friend doesn't get hurt and that they just want some leaves. 

- It jumps down and Osiris crouches down to its level to be less threatening as it pads over to her.

- Tiff who had previously waved at it, hides behind Ràian because it looks like an animal.

- The panther nods at Osiris and herds them in the direction they were going anyway.

- Tiff tries to ride her broom to keep up and the panther does NOT like it, Osiris tries to put Tiff right on the panther's back, and neither Tiff nor the panther like it. The panther calls a spider to tie Tiff up and drag her.

- Ràian puts Tiff on her shoulders.

- Osiris Messages Rusty to let them know they aren't alone on their way to their destination.

- About 45 minutes later, they come to a village and are led to a particular building.

- It looks like a jail or holding cell.

- Osiris is desperate to give their herding panther a scritch and it shoves her into the building.

- The two panthers sit on either side of the door to their cell and play guard.

- Half an hour after sitting around in their cell and cleaning up their wounds, a man who is a little bit taller than a halfling and definitely shorter than a human with a big red bushy beard.

- He speaks in Common, but his accent is very old.

- He is very interested in talk to Rusty, asks where he's from and Rusty says Kunzak.

- After a bit of conversation between Rusty and the dwarf whose name is Kagnar, they are let out of the cell and they continue chatting as they walk, and Tiff starts telling him as her Great-Aunt Thessalie. He is fascinated by her story about the Dwoids.

- The building they go into is basically just a staircase down into the earth.

- Kagnar calls Rusty a "historical citizen"

- At the bottom of the staircase, there's like an open plaza and there are other dwarves there. Maybe 50 people in this plaza.

- Tiff asks Kagnar if she can talk to people and when he says yes tentatively she immediately darts off to a person who was looking at her with equal curiosity and drags Tina with her as a translator. She immediately starts asking about dwarven words and help this young person with their Common. Osiris follows to chaperone.

- Kagnar takes Rusty, Lyrielle, and Ràian to a tavern and they discuss Vulcand before Tiff and Tina show up to say that Osiris sent them to tell Kagnar she's gone to find a local temple to commune with the local holy people.

- Kagnar says there are about 50,000 dwarves in this city now.

- "I have diagrams." for the 1,000th time

- Tiff bargains for knowledge about the Dwoids to get to visit again.

- She sends to Thessalie (because she's not technically a living person so THAT's not breaking the secret), "There are living dwarves! Can you tell me where the Dwoids were? They've lost their history, and the Dwoids could maybe help them. Love you!"

 

- 3,500 XP ea for 143,500 total XP ea.

Bay Beach Barrier Bugs, directed by Michael Bay - May 3, 2024

 - Remote play for April's sinus surgery

- Dice kitty "Just because I can't see it doesn't mean I don't need to write it down."

- The group spends a couple of day walking down the coast, but they haven't seen any bay trees yet.

- So on the fourth day when they see an island off the coast in the direction they are walking with a lot of trees. It's a barrier island a couple of miles off the coast.

- Osiris ritually casts Water Walk on the group (except Tiff and Tina who are on Tiff's broom)

- They walk for about an hour over the water, then Tiff casts Rope Trick and they all ascend to the extradimensional safe space for a recast, and they have to do this twice and almost a third time before they reach the sandy beach of the island

- There are a couple shipwrecks. A few small fishing vessels on the beach, but also there's a much larger vessel out on the shoals, and all of them look like they were fire damage.

- Not all the boats look like they were shipwrecked at the same time.

- Tiff does a quick fly-around of the big boat out in the water, and she sees that the ship had a major fire and it's weatherworn, so it's been there for a while. There's no reef, it's just stuck on sand, and there are little chips and scorch marks like maybe a firebolt spell?

- Osiris casts Locate Object for Bay leaves and gets a ping north of her 837 ft.

- Tiff is flying along maybe 10' above the ground when she runs into some kind of invisible wall. She manages to do a somersault and land on her feet holding the broom.

- Rusty can't feel the wall and can walk through it.

- Dwarven made invisible force field?

- Everyone except Tiff starts to notice a buzzing sound. It's above and farther inland.

- Osiris climbs onto the broom with Tiff and they start flying up, trying to see the the wall has a top.

- One of Osiris's arrow's doesn't get stopped by the barrier and neither does her hammer. 

- The buzzing is starting to get very loud, and there are three things that are about the size of an eagle and they look like mechanical dragonflies.

- The force field is a dome, by the way.

- Tiff jets on the broom back in the direction of the ground

BEACH BUGGY BATTLE

- Rusty Rages and calls out in Dwarven, "Stand down, we're friendly!" and he readies an attack action if one of the Mechanical Dragonflies does something aggressive to anyone in the party.

- MD1 casts something at MD2 that gives it a glimmering sort of shield, and the dive bombs Ràian for 16 bludgeoning dmg (tail hit) then darts away again. Then it shoots her with a lightning bolt for 15 (7) lightning dmg

- Ràian moves to within 15' of MD1 and casts Burning Hands on it for 13 fire dmg and then moves back toward the group again

- MD2 dives for Tina for 16 bludgeoning dmg and then shoots her for 14 lightning dmg

- Osiris casts Aura of Vitality on herself (she can't tell if the aura reach through the barrier or not) and then she sends Tina 10 HP

- MD3 dives at Lyrielle for 13 bludgeoning dmg and then shoots her for 22 lightning dmg

- Lyrielle uses a ki point to Dodge as a bonus action then climbs on the broom with Tiff and readies an attack action for Tiff to bring her to one of the 

- Tiff tries to put MD2 that attacked Tina in a Resilient Sphere, but it dodges. Then she flies with Lyrielle over to MD3 and Lyrielle punches it for 10 bludgeoning dmg.

- Tina casts a 4th level Fire ball over the ocean such that MD2 and MD3 are in the range but Lyrielle and Tiff are not. They take 30 fire dmg, and then Tina runs and hides behind a nearby palm tree.

- Rusty throws two javelins and misses twice. But he does put himself closer to the one that was attacking Tina

- MD1 dive bombs Ràian again for 18 bludgeoning dmg and she Telekinetically Reprisals it for 6 force dmg and it discombobulated enough not to shoot lightning at her

- Ràian casts a 6th level Fireball such that it gets MD1 and MD3 without hitting anyone else for 45 fire dmg. And that's her turn.

- MD2 misses Tiff on its dive bomb and then shoots her with lightning for 21 dmg.

- Osiris sends Ràian 14 HP. Then she casts Aid at 4th level on Ràian, Tiff, and Lyrielle (15 HP up).

- MD3 smacks Lyrielle without needing to move for 12 bludgeoning dmg and then gets smacked for 8 bludgeoning as it moves away from her then it misses with the lightning bolt.

- Tiff shoots MD2 with Melf's Acid Arrow (3rd level) for 12 acid dmg and then flies Lyrielle over to MD2 where she punches it again. Tiff then drops off the broom into the soft sand below leaving Lyrielle in control of the broom

- Tina casts a 5th level Cloud of Daggers around MD3 for 22 slashing dmg. She then continues to hide behind the tree.

- Rusty runs and leaps and grabs MD3 by the legs and pulls it down onto the beach. He is holding it by the legs and it is squirming.

- MD1 dives at Ràian again for 15 bludgeoning dmg and she Telekinetically Reprisals it again for 9 force dmg

- Ràian casts a 5th level Fireball for 20 fire dmg and MD2 crumbles into bits to the ground. The copse of trees at the water line is now on fire.

- Md2 is dead!

- MD3 escapes from Rusty's grip and flies away up the beach inside the barrier. Rusty stabs MD3 for 15 piercing dmg

- Osiris attempts to Misty Step through the barrier, but she rebounds off of the barrier and ends up standing next to where she was before she cast the spell, so she turns and casts Toll the Dead on MD1 for 25 (necrotic dmg, and the dmg doesn't seems to be as bad as it should be.

- Lyrielle is on a broom! She flies to MD1 and punches it for 9 bludgeoning dmg and then again for 13 bludgeoning dmg and then again for 12 bludgeoning and MD1's face collapses inward and it falls to the beach.

- Tiff sends the Healing Bonk Hammer over to Ràian and then she moves near to Osiris and the barrier and calls to Rusty to grab the last MD and bring it to her to try to deactivate.

- Tina casts Magic Missile at 4th level for 12 force dmg. She continues to hide behind the palm tree.

- Rusty tackles MD3 again and drags it over to Tiff who Tinkers it for 25 effective dmg though it's non-destructive to the construct

- Ràian takes some rope out of her bag and attempts to tie it up so that it can't fly any more.

- MD3 misses Ràian with a lightning bolt and then claws Tiff for 16 dmg

- Osiris backs away from the melee that has overtaken her and sends 16 HP to Tina. She then asks Tina is she thinks Dispel Magic would work on the barrier. Tina has no idea. Osiris suggests she try on her next turn.

- Lyrielle strategically punches it for 6 bludgeoning dmg and then again for 11 bludgeoning dmg so she stomps it for 8 bludgeoning dmg

- Tiff keeps going with her tinker tools and it powers down!

- Tiff finds some similarities to Rusty's construction, but less refined. She is sketching and diagramming and note taking furiously. 

- Tina casts Dispel Magic on the barrier and you can see it hit the barrier and see ripples through it, 

- There is a whistling sound, also mechanical, and there is something flying over the trees moving very fast. The thing looks a bit like a cross between a bird and an airplane. It has fixed wings that are shaped like a bird's, but they don't flap. The front of it also looks a bit like a bird's head.

- Osiris says everyone step through the interrupted barrier on the count of three.

- Rusty grabs Tina and gets ready to carry her through the barrier.

- Osiris casts Dispel Magic and crosses the invisible barrier.

- Lyrielle runs through

- Ruff runs through

- Tina is carried through by Rusty.

- The flying thing dives straight at Tiff and hits her for 23 bludgeoning dmg and explodes dealing 26 bludgeoning dmg and 24 fire dmg to Tiff and half as much to everyone else (except Lyrielle who was completely out of range of the explosion). 

- Osiris casts Mass Healing Word on everyone for 11 HP, then yells run and take her own advice, heading inland.

- They find a good spot to hide in the jungle.

- 2,200 XP ea for 140,000 XO total ea.