So in the midst of last night’s mayhem, I had occasion to think, “hey, the giant celestial fire beetle is back!” Then I realized I’d never mentioned it in the writeups. So, without further ado, here is a word-for-word excerpt from week 2 or 3. We had just discovered a lift leading down to the lower levels of the mine. We’re just tooling along, minding our own business, when all of a sudden…<\/p>\n
Aleanghi: <\/b><\/font>Aleangi approaches the beetle. Palin:<\/b><\/font> “Does it do tricks?” Aleanghi:<\/b><\/font> ((time out, as I wasn’t expecting a fire beetle either – wasn’t in the fam list in my admittedly outdated manual)) Tvini: <\/b><\/font>So, bard, does your beetle have a name? Torkal: <\/b><\/font>“Aleangi’s got a pet. Wonderful news. We need to get the lift back.” All of us: <\/b> HAHAHAHAHAAAAA<\/p>\n Last night’s writeup coming soon!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" So in the midst of last night’s mayhem, I had occasion to think, “hey, the giant celestial fire beetle is back!” Then I realized I’d never mentioned it in the writeups. So, without further ado, here is a word-for-word excerpt from week 2 or 3. We had just discovered a lift leading down to the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[76],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1994"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1994"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1994\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nGM: <\/b> A celestial giant fire beetle appears out of no where.<\/i>
\nVal: <\/b><\/font> …
\nTorkal:<\/b><\/font> Don’t lie.
\nVeracity:<\/b><\/font> “…”
\nPalin:<\/b><\/font> It wasn’t me.
\nGM:<\/b> I never lie.<\/i>
\nonlinehost<\/b><\/font> Val rolled 1 20-sided die: 10
\nVal:<\/b><\/font> +3
\nVeracity: <\/b><\/font> Where exactly did it appear? In the lift shaft? Down the hall? How far away is it?
\nPalin:<\/b><\/font> Is this one of those “little brother” situations? Like where the little brother of the player\/GM took over?
\nGM: <\/b>a roll without a comment is nothing to me \ud83d\ude42<\/i>
\nVal:<\/b><\/font> rolling for initative?
\nonlinehost<\/b><\/font> Val rolled 1 20-sided die: 15<\/i>
\nPalin: <\/b><\/font>Is it corporeal?<\/p>\n
\nVal: <\/b><\/font>Valasitor stays back.
\nGM:<\/b> The fire beetle stands next to Aleangi.<\/i>
\nVal: <\/b><\/font>Does it look hostile?
\nPalin: <\/b><\/font>Palin is staring in disbelief.
\nAleanghi:<\/b><\/font> ‘It’s my familiar.
\nBentein: <\/b><\/font>“Um, good beetle?”
\nVeracity:<\/b><\/font> “You….choose insects?”
\nTorkal: <\/b><\/font>Torkal is heavily confused and doesn’t even manage speech at the moment.
\nVal: <\/b><\/font>“…that thing is….intimidating.”<\/p>\n
\nTorkal: <\/b><\/font>No, seriously. The hell does a celestial giant fire beetle look like.
\nVal: <\/b><\/font>yeah
\nVeracity: <\/b><\/font>Veracity is staring with some repugnance. “I – really don’t like insects. Nothing needs more than four legs. Really. Anything else is sheer excess.”
\nAleanghi: <\/b><\/font>‘Insects are rather useful. And it’s not much for performance.
\nPalin:<\/b><\/font> “Can you send it down the shaft to see where the hell the lift is?” Palin is doing her freaking out internally.
\nVal: <\/b><\/font>Ahem. um, time out. I played this game on the condition that giant fire beatles would not be joining us. \ud83d\ude42
\nVeracity: <\/b><\/font>Veracity backs up against the wall hastily, as far from the beetle as possible. She regards it with a malignant gaze.
\nVal: <\/b><\/font>how big is giant?
\nPalin:<\/b><\/font> Could be worse. Could be a giant dung beetle.
\nGM: <\/b>The beetle rumbles.<\/i><\/p>\n
\nVal:<\/b><\/font> lol
\nGM:<\/b> hehe<\/i>
\nVal:<\/b><\/font> “Well um..okay. its your familiar…whats it do?”
\nPalin: <\/b><\/font> >desc beetle
\nVeracity:<\/b><\/font> “Well, if you MUST have insects, is there….yes, what the elf said.”
\nGM: <\/b>You see a beetle.<\/i>
\nPalin:<\/b><\/font> Is it actually flaming, or is it just a reference to color? Because I’d kind of hoped we’d set enough things on fire.
\nVal: <\/b><\/font>whereas i was hoping to use it to set my enemies on fire
\nPalin: <\/b><\/font>Typical.
\nGM:<\/b> The beetle is firey in color. Roughly 4′ girth by 4′ in length.<\/i>
\nPalin: <\/b><\/font>Wow.
\nTorkal: <\/b><\/font>Okay, so it’s nearly as large as a dwarf.
\nVeracity: <\/b><\/font>And does “celestial” mean it is sacred to some god, or just ambitious?
\nVal: <\/b><\/font>or is it from the heavens?
\nTorkal: <\/b><\/font>Hahahaha.
\nAleanghi: <\/b><\/font>magical beast, I believe
\nTorkal: <\/b><\/font>“It’s just ambitious.”
\nGM: <\/b> Celestial means its from another plane, summoned by the arcane.<\/i>
\nVal: <\/b><\/font>sounds like an alteration gone awry
\nPalin: <\/b><\/font>Heh.
\nVal:<\/b><\/font> ah<\/p>\n
\nVeracity: <\/b><\/font>Oh, okay, getting some sense of the thing now. But Veracity still hates insects (g)
\nAleanghi: <\/b><\/font> …..bard?
\nPalin:<\/b><\/font> Cleric. Whatever.
\nVal: <\/b> <\/font> Val>(cheryl’s char who i forgot the name of)..”so um..what now?”
\nPalin: <\/b><\/font> All you humans look alike to me.
\nVeracity: <\/b><\/font>“Hey, don’t blame ME for the curst thing. If I had familiars, they’d be aesthetically a lot more pleasing.”
\nTorkal: <\/b><\/font>Torkal’s going to finish his assessment of the beetle, shake his head, and turn back to the empty elevator shaft.
\nVeracity:<\/b><\/font> “And Half-elven, if you please” Veracity sniffs audibly.<\/p>\n
\nVal: <\/b><\/font>wait, are we at the elevator shaft now? I thought we were in the mess hall
\nmagusambrodiel:<\/b><\/font> (19:57:06) GM: You are at camp where the lift should be, but the lift is not there.
\nVeracity:<\/b><\/font> We’ve been at the elevator shaft all along.
\nTorkal:<\/b><\/font> Learn to read, Val.
\nPalin: <\/b><\/font> “I can’t very well call it ‘that beetle.’ I shall call it Rollo.” So, is there a panel here?
\nGM: <\/b>The beetle looks around at the group and seeing it not worthy of its abilities burrows into the ground and disappears.
\nA bat flutters in.<\/i><\/p>\n