{"id":2563,"date":"2011-05-22T13:52:00","date_gmt":"2011-05-22T17:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/?p=2563"},"modified":"2011-05-22T13:52:00","modified_gmt":"2011-05-22T17:52:00","slug":"dd-week-46-you-will-get-wet-you-may-get-soaked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/?p=2563","title":{"rendered":"D&#038;D Week 46: You will get wet, you may get soaked."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gooood morning!  Time for another episode of Death for Dummies!<\/p>\n<p>While we wait for Torkal to arrive, we talk about being on a pirate ship and going to <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Davy_Jones'_Locker\" target=\"blank\">Davy Jones&#8217; locker<\/a>, which naturally leads to a discussion of the Monkees.  This leads us to a realization:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mtctoys.com\/product_info.php?manufacturers_id=13&amp;products_id=402\" target=\"blank\" title=\"Order your official Torkal mousepad today!\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mtctoys.com\/images\/hr%20pufnstuf.JPG?osCsid=9a36d16b2be031f9d3a5863a1aab53fc&quot;\" hspace=\"5\" vspace=\"5\" height=\"200\" align=\"right\"><\/a><br \/>\n<font color=\"4B0082\"><b>Veracity:  <\/b><\/font>I dunno, our adventuring group IS sort of like a DnD Monkees. Remember in their show how there were always those 60s rapid motion scurrying back and forth bits, usually being chased by something?<br \/>\n<font color=\"4B0082\"><b>Veracity:  <\/b><\/font>&#8230;.that&#8217;s so us.<br \/>\n<font color=\"DC143C\"><b>Palin:  <\/b><\/font>So you&#8217;re saying we&#8217;re not so much getting our asses kicked as we are playing out a montage.<br \/>\n<i><b>GM Vaschon:  <\/b>This is more how I viewed your party. http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=FtD4mn9CeH4&#038;feature=related <\/i><br \/>\n<font color=\"4B0082\"><b>Veracity:  <\/b><\/font>There you go. That&#8217;s the optimistic way to look at our proceedings.<br \/>\n<font color=\"DC143C\"><b>Palin:  <\/b><\/font>Veracity does have kind of a witchiepoo vibe.<br \/>\n<i>Torkal has joined this chat.<\/i><br \/>\n<font color=\"DC143C\"><b>Palin:  <\/b><\/font>Hey, there&#8217;s H.R.!<\/p>\n<p>Now that H.R. Pufnstuf\u2026 I mean, Torkal has joined us, we\u2019re off!<br \/>\n<!--more Glub glub!--><br \/>\n<i><b>GM Vaschon:  <\/b>If memory serves, when last we left our intrepid adventurers&#8230; You managed to kill the Captain, Bosun, Firstmate, and a few crew.  Val managed to get 5 of the first 2 groups of prisoners dead.<\/i><br \/>\n<font color=\"008080\"><b>Val: <\/b><\/font>Val&#8230;picks up the captain&#8217;s left arm, shakes it in the air and says, &#8220;Alright. You can surrender to me and my men, or you can join your captain here Arm in Arm&#8221;<br \/>\n<font color=\"006400\"><b>Aleanghi:  <\/b><\/font>&#8230;Val has officially stepped off the deep end.<\/p>\n<p><i><b>GM Vaschon:  <\/b>We pick up in round 8, where we have&#8230; Owlbear, Water Elemental, Torkal, Ale, Val, Veracity, Palin, Bentein, Joquil, Crew, Crew, Kobold cook, Kobold lookout<\/i><br \/>\n<i><b>GM Vaschon:  <\/b>The first batch of 5 saw, 3 human males (2 of which are dead), 1 elven female (dead), 1 dwarf male (dead).<\/i><br \/>\n<font color=\"008080\"><b>Val: <\/b><\/font>Tasword is still alive though<br \/>\n<font color=\"800000\"><b>Torkal:  <\/b><\/font>The prisoners joining the fight was an awesomely (bad) idea. lolz<br \/>\n<font color=\"4B0082\"><b>Veracity:  <\/b><\/font>I just thought of them as decoys and cannon fodder.<br \/>\n<font color=\"006400\"><b>Aleanghi:  <\/b><\/font>Hey, who knows but that the attacks they took kept us alive.<br \/>\n<font color=\"008080\"><b>Val: <\/b><\/font>again, i maintain that we would be in worse shape if we were the only targets at this point<br \/>\n<font color=\"800000\"><b>Torkal:  <\/b><\/font>Yeah. The people back home will appreciate hearing, &#8220;We needed your unarmed husband&#8217;s backup. He died taking hits.&#8221;<br \/>\n<i><b>GM Vaschon:  <\/b>The third group is coming up the ramp and consists of: 1 late teen human female, 2 half-elf males and 1 elf female.<\/i><br \/>\n<font color=\"008080\"><b>Val: <\/b><\/font>hear that, Torkal?Late-teen!<br \/>\n<font color=\"800000\"><b>Torkal:  <\/b><\/font>JESUS CHRIST IT&#8217;S THE BARON&#8217;S DAUGHTER RIGHT THERE<br \/>\n<font color=\"DC143C\"><b>Palin:  <\/b><\/font>okay! We found the baron&#8217;s daughter!  Mission accomplished!<br \/>\n<font color=\"800000\"><b>Torkal:  <\/b><\/font>PROTIP DON&#8217;T LET THAT THIRD GROUP FIGHT<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s time to fight!  The owlbear is up.<br \/>\n<font color=\"4B0082\"><b>Veracity:  <\/b><\/font>Veracity points and yells at the owlbear &#8220;Loook out! Behind you!&#8221; then ducks back down behind the table.<\/p>\n<p>It doesn\u2019t work.  The owlbear attacks Palin for 15 points.<br \/>\n<font color=\"DC143C\"><b>Palin:  <\/b><\/font>Not cool, owlbear. Not cool.<br \/>\n<font color=\"800000\"><b>Torkal:  <\/b><\/font>http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=s3C4cSb80CU represents the overall impact of this fight on Torkal.<br \/>\n<a href=\" http:\/\/wen-m.deviantart.com\/art\/Anima-Water-elemental-boss-111632298\" target=\"blank\" title=\"Gurgle, you\u2019re dead.\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\" http:\/\/th04.deviantart.net\/fs41\/PRE\/f\/2009\/033\/4\/1\/Anima__Water_elemental_boss_by_Wen_M.jpg\" hspace=\"5\" vspace=\"5\" align=\"right\" height=\"250\"><\/a><br \/>\nThe water elemental slams into Val, seriously wounding him.<br \/>\n<font color=\"008080\"><b>Val: <\/b><\/font>i dunno, maybe eliminating the owlbear is priority<br \/>\n<font color=\"DC143C\"><b>Palin:  <\/b><\/font>I think we just need to figure out what attracts water elementals and spread it on the owlbear.<br \/>\n<i><b>GM Vaschon:  <\/b>Try dousing yourself with fire, Palin, maybe it will extinguish you<\/i><br \/>\n<font color=\"800000\"><b>Torkal:  <\/b><\/font>Alrighty. Torkal is attacking DAT OWLBEAR.<br \/>\n(he hits spectacularly)<br \/>\n<i><b>GM Vaschon:  <\/b>Torkal ragewagons the Owlbear, killing it dead. You can choose to cleave the elemental if you wish.<\/i><br \/>\n<font color=\"800000\"><b>Torkal:  <\/b><\/font>I&#8217;D LIKE TO DO THAT<br \/>\nTorkal rolls a 19, but misses.  This is not good.  Then Val attacks with rolls totaling 20 and also misses.  This is even worse, as it means we need insanely high rolls in order to even touch the water elemental which is currently kicking our butts.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"4B0082\"><b>Veracity:  <\/b><\/font>We are in deep crap.<br \/>\n<font color=\"4B0082\"><b>Veracity:  <\/b><\/font>I mean, I suppose throwing the crispy blankie over it and trying to&#8230;..uh&#8230;..sop it up or something is Not Allowed? <g><br \/>\n<i><b>GM Vaschon:  <\/b>You could try that, and I might be inclined to offer you 100 xp for the attempt, however, you would most likely just be stared at by the elemental then drowned.<\/i><br \/>\n<font color=\"4B0082\"><b>Veracity:  <\/b><\/font>And &#8220;most likely&#8221; isn&#8217;t ABSOLUTELY telling me it&#8217;s hopeless&#8230;.I only have ordinary sponges, alas \ud83d\ude41 I don&#8217;t suppose Summon Monster might summon a massive great Celestial Sponge from the depths?<br \/>\n<i><b>GM Vaschon:  <\/b>Unfortunately&#8230; no<\/i><br \/>\n<font color=\"800000\"><b>Torkal:  <\/b><\/font>Celestial sponge?<br \/>\n<font color=\"800000\"><b>Torkal:  <\/b><\/font>That right there is f****** amazing and I love you, (Veracity).<br \/>\n<a href=\" http:\/\/www.miwiki.net\/La_Esponja_Grande\" target=\"blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\" http:\/\/www.miwiki.net\/images\/Esponja_grande_concept.png\" hspace=\"5\" vspace=\"5\" align=\"right\" height=\"250\"><\/a><br \/>\n<font color=\"4B0082\"><b>Veracity:  <\/b><\/font>Veracity hauls out the much abused crispy blankie and heaves it at the water elemental, aiming for the head and shoulders or whatever the equivalent area on a column of water might be.<br \/>\n<i><br \/>\n<font color=\"4B0082\"><b>Veracity:  <\/b><\/font> rolled 1 20-sided die: 20<\/i><br \/>\n<font color=\"008080\"><b>Val: <\/b><\/font>&#8230;<br \/>\n<font color=\"006400\"><b>Aleanghi:  <\/b><\/font>WAHOO!<br \/>\n<font color=\"800000\"><b>Torkal:  <\/b><\/font>&#8230;<br \/>\n<font color=\"008080\"><b>Val: <\/b><\/font>it\u2019s nothing if it\u2019s not confirmed<br \/>\n<font color=\"4B0082\"><b>Veracity:  <\/b><\/font>o plz o plz<br \/>\n<i><br \/>\n<font color=\"4B0082\"><b>Veracity:  <\/b><\/font> rolled 1 20-sided die: 7<\/i><br \/>\n<font color=\"800000\"><b>Torkal:  <\/b><\/font>FAIL<br \/>\n<font color=\"4B0082\"><b>Veracity:  <\/b><\/font>sob<br \/>\n<font color=\"DC143C\"><b>Palin:  <\/b><\/font>But she deserves so much credit for even trying that. Talk about thinking outside the box.<br \/>\n<i><b>GM Vaschon:  <\/b>Even if it was confirmed&#8230; Veracity throws a blanket on the water elemental.  The blanket falls to the ground&#8230; soaking wet. The elemental looks uninterested. The Kobolds pause a moment, looking at one another. The crew pause a moment, look at one another.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>What\u2019s going on there, you may ask?  Well, the DM rolls to see whether the crew gains confidence from the realization that we\u2019re a bunch of idiots who don\u2019t know what we\u2019re doing.  Fortunately, they do not.  Luck is with us &#8211; the pirates are stupider than we are.<br \/>\n<i><b>GM Vaschon:  <\/b>Veracity is bonused 100 xp for ingenuity and learning that blankets don&#8217;t soak up water elementals.<\/i><br \/>\n<i><b>GM Vaschon:  <\/b>Palin!<\/i><br \/>\n<font color=\"DC143C\"><b>Palin:  <\/b><\/font>I&#8217;m poppin&#8217; that big ol&#8217; blister.<br \/>\nPalin does 11 damage, in fact!<br \/>\n<font color=\"4B0082\"><b>Veracity:  <\/b><\/font>Go Palin and the Short Sharp Shock!<br \/>\nThen a crewman fires a crossbow into the room.  He hits a Dwarf.<br \/>\n<i><b>GM Vaschon:  <\/b>*plink!* between the eyes. The dwarf male falls over dead.<\/i><br \/>\n<font color=\"DC143C\"><b>Palin:  <\/b><\/font>That was one of our hostages?  I mean, one of the rescuees?<br \/>\n<i><b>GM Vaschon:  <\/b>Yes<\/i><br \/>\n<font color=\"4B0082\"><b>Veracity:  <\/b><\/font>Veracity motions furiously at the ditzy blond teenage girl to Get Down Out Of Line Of Fire.<br \/>\n<i><b>GM Vaschon:  <\/b>The kobold cook casts a spell at Ale and strikes her!<\/i><br \/>\n<font color=\"DC143C\"><b>Palin:  <\/b><\/font>How the hell is the cook such a good magic user?<br \/>\n<font color=\"4B0082\"><b>Veracity:  <\/b><\/font>That must be how he fries up the bacon without setting the ship on fire.<br \/>\nThe next group of hostages arrives.  Almost immediately the water elemental drowns one of them.<br \/>\n<font color=\"008080\"><b>Val: <\/b><\/font>all I\u2019m saying is without those prisoners we&#8217;d all be dead now<br \/>\n<font color=\"800000\"><b>Torkal:  <\/b><\/font>I&#8217;m going to yell for them to leave.  Because we&#8217;re going to lose them all and then this mission will be pointless.<br \/>\n<font color=\"800000\"><b>Torkal:  <\/b><\/font>&#8220;Hi, we rescued&#8230; two of the twenty.&#8221;<br \/>\n<i><b>GM Vaschon:  <\/b>Torkal<\/i><br \/>\n<font color=\"800000\"><b>Torkal:  <\/b><\/font>Torkal does two things.<br \/>\n<font color=\"800000\"><b>Torkal:  <\/b><\/font><br \/>\nHe yells for any remaining prisoners to fall to the hold!<br \/>\n<i><b>GM Vaschon:  <\/b>The prisoners return back to the hold save 1 human who remains at Bentein&#8217;s side and Joquil the ranger who holds his position.<\/i><br \/>\n<font color=\"800000\"><b>Torkal:  <\/b><\/font>Good enough by me.  I&#8217;m going to attack me some crewmembers. F*** that water thing. Who&#8217;s in range?<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/s1223.photobucket.com\/albums\/dd515\/emisanboo\/?action=view&amp;current=TorkalRageExplosion_cover.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Available at Kmart.\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i1223.photobucket.com\/albums\/dd515\/emisanboo\/TorkalRageExplosion_cover.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Torkal Rage Explosion\" hspace=\"5\" vspace=\"5\" align=\"right\" height=\"300\"><\/a><br \/>\nTorkal goes twenty kinds of crazy on the crewmember.  Sample actual typed out audio clips:<br \/>\n<font color=\"800000\"><b>Torkal:  <\/b><\/font>HUNNNNNNGH<br \/>\n<font color=\"800000\"><b>Torkal:  <\/b><\/font>YNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNGH<br \/>\n<font color=\"800000\"><b>Torkal:  <\/b><\/font>FCUCK<\/p>\n<p>You know by now how it is.  It\u2019s the Torkal rage explosion.  Which I\u2019m pretty sure was a metal band in the 80\u2019s.<\/p>\n<p><i><b>GM Vaschon:  <\/b>Torkal savagely lops the head of a human crewman off. It soars through the air and gets stuck in a nearby porthole!<\/i><br \/>\n<font color=\"4B0082\"><b>Veracity:  <\/b><\/font>oooo splat<br \/>\n<font color=\"DC143C\"><b>Palin:  <\/b><\/font>NICE!<br \/>\n<font color=\"800000\"><b>Torkal:  <\/b><\/font>http:\/\/fuck-you-im-an-anteater.com\/img\/another_anteater.png<\/p>\n<p>Emboldened by Torkal\u2019s success, Aleanghi aims her crossbow at the kobold cook with great authority.  She rolls a critical miss.<br \/>\n<i><b>GM Vaschon:  <\/b>Ale takes aim at a kobold cook and *plink* the bolt pops out of the crossbow. She scurries to pick it up.<\/i><br \/>\n<font color=\"800000\"><b>Torkal:  <\/b><\/font>Scream DICKCHICKEN! before your next attack.  I guarantee a 20.<\/p>\n<p>Val hits the cook with a sneak attack.  Veracity polishes it off.  And so, we turn our attention to the nigh-invulnerable water elemental.<\/p>\n<p>Some thoughts we have:<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"4B0082\"><b>Veracity:  <\/b><\/font>All right. Mage Hand. What are the chances of reaching inside that column of water and squeezing it&#8217;s wet, cold, squishy heart into a coronary?<br \/>\n<i><b>GM Vaschon:  <\/b>Put it this way, the elemental has a greater chance of doing that to YOU than you to it \ud83d\ude42<\/i><br \/>\n<font color=\"800000\"><b>Torkal:  <\/b><\/font>I&#8217;ll give you a coke if you try and drink the elemental.<\/p>\n<p>Okay, maybe the wardog?<br \/>\n<font color=\"800000\"><b>Torkal:  <\/b><\/font>I don&#8217;t even know where the wardog is.<br \/>\n<i><b>GM Vaschon:  <\/b>Wardog is in the longboat<\/i><br \/>\n<font color=\"800000\"><b>Torkal:  <\/b><\/font>Shit. I was going to throw it.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"DC143C\"><b>Palin:  <\/b><\/font>Hey, do we still have that ring? Maybe we can throw it at the elemental. It would stick in it, wouldn&#8217;t it?<br \/>\n<i><b>GM Vaschon:  <\/b>The Water Elemental is not Velcro.<\/i><br \/>\n<font color=\"800000\"><b>Torkal:  <\/b><\/font>Nor is it stupid.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"191970\"><b>Bentein: <\/b><\/font>Attempting to flail the elemental.<br \/>\n<i><font color=\"191970\"><b>Bentein: <\/b><\/font> rolled 1 20-sided die: 1<\/i><br \/>\n<font color=\"800000\"><b>Torkal:  <\/b><\/font>You might say that his roll ended in&#8230; flailure.<\/p>\n<p>Wait, wait.  That\u2019s missing something.  What is it\u2026<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/s1223.photobucket.com\/albums\/dd515\/emisanboo\/?action=view&amp;current=Torkal_sunglasses.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"YYYYYYEEEAAAAAHHHH!!!\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i1223.photobucket.com\/albums\/dd515\/emisanboo\/Torkal_sunglasses.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Torkal Sunglasses\" hspace=\"5\" vspace=\"5\"><\/a><br \/>\nThere we go.<\/p>\n<p>This battle has gone on forever and we\u2019re running out of hit points and ideas.  Meanwhile, both party members and unnamed hostages are taking hits.  At this point, we\u2019re getting tired of calling the cannon fodd\u2026 um, former prisoners just &#8220;human&#8221; and &#8220;dwarf male.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"006400\"><b>Aleanghi:  <\/b><\/font>We need some name tags for these folks.<br \/>\n<font color=\"008080\"><b>Val: <\/b><\/font>Tasword!<br \/>\n<font color=\"DC143C\"><b>Palin:  <\/b><\/font>Palin shouts to the human, &#8220;Hey, friend, you have a name?&#8221;<br \/>\n<i><b>GM Vaschon:  <\/b>The human says back, &#8220;Geofford.&#8221;<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Palin gets hit by the elemental (of course.  Palin always gets hit.) so we cast about for help.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"4B0082\"><b>Veracity:  <\/b><\/font>&#8220;Hey Geofford. Any healing abilities, by chance?&#8221;<br \/>\n<i><b>GM Vaschon:  <\/b>Geofford replies he&#8217;s been a prisoner for a while and has no spells ready.<\/i><br \/>\n<font color=\"DC143C\"><b>Palin:  <\/b><\/font>Hey, but that implies he has the ability to. Good to know.<\/p>\n<p>Of course then a pirate shoots him.  Because just like in a Joss Whedon show, if you get to know and like someone, they\u2019re doomed.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"DC143C\"><b>Palin:  <\/b><\/font>Nooo! He just got a name!<br \/>\n<font color=\"4B0082\"><b>Veracity:  <\/b><\/font>noooooo<br \/>\n<font color=\"800000\"><b>Torkal:  <\/b><\/font>lolz<br \/>\n<font color=\"006400\"><b>Aleanghi:  <\/b><\/font>He&#8217;s not just some redshirt!<br \/>\n<i><b>GM Vaschon:  <\/b>Geofford takes 4 points of damage and looks severely injured.<\/i><br \/>\n<font color=\"4B0082\"><b>Veracity:  <\/b><\/font>Don&#8217;t Die, Geofford!<br \/>\n<i><b>GM Vaschon:  <\/b>Torkal is up<\/i><br \/>\n<font color=\"800000\"><b>Torkal:  <\/b><\/font>He goes after the weakened remaning human crewman.<br \/>\n<i><font color=\"800000\"><b>Torkal:  <\/b><\/font> rolled 1 20-sided die: 1<\/i><br \/>\n<i><b>GM Vaschon:  <\/b>Torkal stumbles forward suffering a -2 penalty to his next defense.<\/i><br \/>\n<font color=\"DC143C\"><b>Palin:  <\/b><\/font>Torkal, you didn&#8217;t yell dickchicken.<br \/>\n<i><b>GM Vaschon:  <\/b>Veracity<\/i><br \/>\n<font color=\"4B0082\"><b>Veracity:  <\/b><\/font>I so want to try the elemental, but even a confirmed crit I wouldn&#8217;t get enough to hit it, dammit, so&#8230;..shooting at the seriously injured crewman instead.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/bushwickbk.com\/2009\/01\/27\/news-click-were-the-graffitiest\/\" target=\"blank\" title=\"Dickchicken.\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/bushwickbk.com\/images\/culture\/clicks\/dickchicken.jpg\" hpace=\"5\" vspace=\"5\" align=\"right\" height=\"250\"><\/a><br \/>\n<font color=\"006400\"><b>Aleanghi:  <\/b><\/font>Dickchicken.<br \/>\n<font color=\"4B0082\"><b>Veracity:  <\/b><\/font>+1 crossbow, point blank, rapid shot, etc. Dickchicken, yes.<br \/>\n<font color=\"DC143C\"><b>Palin:  <\/b><\/font>dick to the chicken.<br \/>\n<font color=\"006400\"><b>Aleanghi:  <\/b><\/font>dick^chicken?<br \/>\n<i><br \/>\n<font color=\"4B0082\"><b>Veracity:  <\/b><\/font> rolled 1 20-sided die: 4<\/i><br \/>\n<font color=\"4B0082\"><b>Veracity:  <\/b><\/font>+3 = whooooooosh<br \/>\n<font color=\"800000\"><b>Torkal:  <\/b><\/font>Guys, I really feel this session has gone places. Despite Veracity&#8217;s failure as a human being.<br \/>\n<i><b>GM Vaschon:  <\/b>Veracity nonchalantly says &#8216;Dickchicken&#8217; but without her enthusiasm misses the shot.<\/i><br \/>\n<font color=\"DC143C\"><b>Palin:  <\/b><\/font>You gotta say it like you mean it.<br \/>\n<font color=\"800000\"><b>Torkal:  <\/b><\/font>Yeah. Seriously.<br \/>\n<font color=\"DC143C\"><b>Palin:  <\/b><\/font>Kind of a &#8220;this is sparta&#8221; vibe.<br \/>\n<font color=\"4B0082\"><b>Veracity:  <\/b><\/font>DIIIIIIIIICKCHIIIIIIIIIIIIIICKEN!!!!!!!!!!!<br \/>\n(Veracity hits with her second shot)<br \/>\n<font color=\"4B0082\"><b>Veracity:  <\/b><\/font>oh!<br \/>\n<font color=\"006400\"><b>Aleanghi:  <\/b><\/font>See?<br \/>\n<font color=\"4B0082\"><b>Veracity:  <\/b><\/font>grin<br \/>\n<font color=\"DC143C\"><b>Palin:  <\/b><\/font>That&#8217;s going in the writeup.<\/p>\n<p>But the power of Dickchicken is a double-edged sword.<\/p>\n<p><i><b>GM Vaschon:  <\/b>Elemental chooses.<\/i><br \/>\n<i><b>GM Vaschon:  <\/b>He chooses Joquil.<\/i><br \/>\n<font color=\"4B0082\"><b>Veracity:  <\/b><\/font>Don&#8217;t Die Joquil!<br \/>\n<font color=\"800000\"><b>Torkal:  <\/b><\/font>DEATH COMES TO US ALL<br \/>\n<i><b>GM Vaschon:  <\/b>The Elemental gurgles, &#8220;DickChicken!&#8221;<\/i><br \/>\n<i><b>GM Vaschon:  <\/b> rolled 1 20-sided die: 15<\/i><br \/>\n<font color=\"4B0082\"><b>Veracity:  <\/b><\/font>Not the cute ones! Noooooo!<br \/>\n<font color=\"DC143C\"><b>Palin:  <\/b><\/font>NOOOO!!!!<br \/>\n<i><b>GM Vaschon:  <\/b> rolled 3 6-sided dice: 6 2 5<\/i><br \/>\n<font color=\"4B0082\"><b>Veracity:  <\/b><\/font>oh my god.<br \/>\n<font color=\"006400\"><b>Aleanghi:  <\/b><\/font>Damn. It was nice knowing him.<br \/>\n<font color=\"DC143C\"><b>Palin:  <\/b><\/font>This isn&#8217;t happening. This isn&#8217;t happening.<br \/>\n<i><b>GM Vaschon:  <\/b>Poor Joquil, drowned by the dreaded dickchicken.<\/i><br \/>\n<font color=\"4B0082\"><b>Veracity:  <\/b><\/font>So long, Joquil. Poor old Joquil.<br \/>\n<font color=\"4B0082\"><b>Veracity:  <\/b><\/font>Veracity sobs upon Joquil&#8217;s handsome, drenched, dead chest, vowing revenge.<\/p>\n<p>All that remains is us and the water elemental.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"DC143C\"><b>Palin:  <\/b><\/font>There&#8217;s not anything else in here, right? Like a bookcase we can pull down on it, or a convenient chandelier to drop on it?<br \/>\n<i><b>GM Vaschon:  <\/b>No chandelier. There is a crossbeam you could swing from if you really wanted.<\/i><br \/>\n<font color=\"DC143C\"><b>Palin:  <\/b><\/font>Then all I can say is DIIIIIIIICKCHICKEN!<br \/>\n(Palin rolls well)<br \/>\n<i><b>GM Vaschon:  <\/b>A water elemental looks heavily injured.<\/i><br \/>\n<font color=\"DC143C\"><b>Palin:  <\/b><\/font>&#8220;Give up! Also, can you pilot a ship?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><i><b>GM Vaschon:  <\/b>Geofford shoots the elemental. He misses.<\/i><br \/>\n<font color=\"DC143C\"><b>Palin:  <\/b><\/font>We need to tell him about the dickchicken thing.<\/p>\n<p><i><b>GM Vaschon:  <\/b> Elemental chooses!  Oops, poor Geofford.<\/i><br \/>\n<i><b>GM Vaschon:  <\/b>Geofford is drowned.<\/i><br \/>\n<font color=\"4B0082\"><b>Veracity:  <\/b><\/font>Nooooooo!<br \/>\n<font color=\"DC143C\"><b>Palin:  <\/b><\/font>Asshole elemental!<br \/>\n<font color=\"006400\"><b>Aleanghi:  <\/b><\/font>Elemental asshole.<br \/>\n<font color=\"006400\"><b>Aleanghi:  <\/b><\/font>I don&#8217;t think I wanna know what images those would conjure.<br \/>\n<i><b>GM Vaschon:  <\/b>That&#8217;s a shame, those were 2 npcs that coulda helped along the way, heh<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Way to rub it in, DM!  Anyway, finally, finally, FINALLY, at about 1:00 in the morning, we kill the water elemental.<\/p>\n<p><i><b>GM Vaschon:  <\/b>As Veracity shoots the water elemental, it dissipates and rains down to the deck.<\/i><br \/>\n<font color=\"4B0082\"><b>Veracity:  <\/b><\/font>Veracity jumps up and down and pumps the air with her fist.<\/p>\n<p>Then we take some time to honor our fallen comrades, figure out how to haul their lifeless corpses back to town, and also to scoop up some treasure.  We get a lot of loot.  Keys, magical weapons and armor, a ring of water breathing, potions, a cloak of fire resistance\u2026<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cafepress.com\/+surrender_the_booty_cap,69261023\" target=\"blank\" title=\"Arrr?\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images3.cpcache.com\/product\/69261023v10_480x480_Front_Color-White.jpg\" hspace=\"5\" vspace=\"5\" align=\"right\" height=\"250\"><\/a><br \/>\n<font color=\"DC143C\"><b>Palin:  <\/b><\/font>Wait, wait&#8230; I looked up. There&#8217;s a cloak of FIRE RESISTANCE?<br \/>\n<font color=\"DC143C\"><b>Palin:  <\/b><\/font>Palin yells &#8220;DICKCHICKEN&#8221; and snatches the cloak from Val.<br \/>\nVal, meanwhile, claims an utterly ridiculous captain\u2019s hat and places it jauntily upon his head.  Typical.  Unfortunately, the fantastic picture link that the DM came up with is no longer online, so I\u2019m substituting the hat at right.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"191970\"><b>Bentein: <\/b><\/font>&#8220;If we can, we need to bring the bodies of the main crew like the Captain, so we can find out where this island is if we raise him.&#8221;<br \/>\n<font color=\"DC143C\"><b>Palin:  <\/b><\/font>Oh, hey! Good idea!<br \/>\n<i><b>GM Vaschon:  <\/b>Ale is down in the hold, there are 8 captives staring at her. One female human, 2 male dwarves, 2 half-elven males, 1 half-elf female 1 elf male and 1 elf female<\/i><br \/>\n<font color=\"DC143C\"><b>Palin:  <\/b><\/font>Just 8? Yikes.<br \/>\n<font color=\"006400\"><b>Aleanghi:  <\/b><\/font>&#8220;The fight is done &#8211; it&#8217;s safe to come back up.<br \/>\n<i><b>GM Vaschon:  <\/b>The captives look hesitant and inquire as to your identity.<\/i><br \/>\n<font color=\"006400\"><b>Aleanghi:  <\/b><\/font>&#8216;Aleangi. I&#8217;m with Val &#8211; he was down here earlier.  &#8216;If you&#8217;d like, I can bring him back down.<br \/>\n<font color=\"DC143C\"><b>Palin:  <\/b><\/font>You might mention that the baron sent us.<br \/>\n<font color=\"006400\"><b>Aleanghi:  <\/b><\/font>(well, I would have hoped that Val might have filled in some of that already)<br \/>\n<font color=\"DC143C\"><b>Palin:  <\/b><\/font>This is Val we&#8217;re talking about. More likely he said he came single-handedly to save them, swinging in on a rope.<br \/>\n<i><b>GM Vaschon:  <\/b>The captives hesitantly follow you up the ramp<\/i><br \/>\n<font color=\"4B0082\"><b>Veracity:  <\/b><\/font>Veracity does a quick tally of the corpses and then a second, slower count. She says in a deceptively casual tone, &#8220;The sailor in the skiff said there were HOW many crew on this ship? Before we slit his throat and dumped him?&#8221;<br \/>\n<font color=\"008080\"><b>Val: <\/b><\/font>24?<br \/>\n<font color=\"800000\"><b>Torkal:  <\/b><\/font>Torkal says blandly, &#8220;There&#8217;s a group we didn&#8217;t kill. It isn&#8217;t safe to bring the captives, that&#8217;s what she means.&#8221;<br \/>\n<font color=\"4B0082\"><b>Veracity:  <\/b><\/font>Veracity says, &#8220;I think we might want to &#8211; yes. Clean house a little, first.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s late, so we decide to hash out any remaining details in e-mail, but first,<\/p>\n<p><i><b>GM Vaschon:  <\/b>The human female asks, &#8220;So what is to become of us?&#8221;<\/i><br \/>\n<font color=\"006400\"><b>Aleanghi:  <\/b><\/font>&#8216;We&#8217;re getting you out of here.<br \/>\n<i><b>GM Vaschon:  <\/b>The human female glances down at the corpses and looks up, nodding slightly at Ale. &#8220;Alive, right?&#8221;<\/i><br \/>\n<font color=\"008080\"><b>Val: <\/b><\/font>&#8220;That is the hope. It got a little hairy, here, as you can see.  But now we have all but secured the ship in our control.&#8221;<br \/>\n<i><b>GM Vaschon:  <\/b>The human female says, &#8220;Wonderful, I&#8217;m sure you&#8217;ll be rewarded.&#8221;<\/i><br \/>\n<font color=\"DC143C\"><b>Palin:  <\/b><\/font>I think she&#8217;s being sarcastic.<br \/>\n<font color=\"DC143C\"><b>Palin:  <\/b><\/font>&#8220;The Baron was concerned about all his subjects, but of course had a special hope that his daughter would be here. Do you know of her?<br \/>\n<font color=\"800000\"><b>Torkal:  <\/b><\/font>HI I&#8217;M A HIGH-VALUE TARGET THAT WON&#8217;T LIKELY SELF-IDENTIFY<br \/>\n<font color=\"DC143C\"><b>Palin:  <\/b><\/font>Quiet, you.<br \/>\n<i><b>GM Vaschon:  <\/b>The human female does not respond to Palin.<\/i><br \/>\n<font color=\"DC143C\"><b>Palin:  <\/b><\/font>Well, I am a hideous dwarf with no charisma.<br \/>\n<font color=\"DC143C\"><b>Palin:  <\/b><\/font>WHO JUST SAVED HER LIFE.<br \/>\n<font color=\"191970\"><b>Bentein: <\/b><\/font>&#8220;I am just glad that at least some have been rescued from slavery. These others, I hope, can be saved by the grace of the Church.&#8221;<br \/>\n<i><b>GM Vaschon:  <\/b>The collective captives agree with Bentein and thank him for his efforts.<\/i><br \/>\n<font color=\"DC143C\"><b>Palin:  <\/b><\/font>Everybody loves Bentein.<\/p>\n<p>And that\u2019s where we break.  Next time:  we have to get back OUT of the ship, hopefully without killing any more captives.<br \/>\n<br clear=\"all\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gooood morning! Time for another episode of Death for Dummies! While we wait for Torkal to arrive, we talk about being on a pirate ship and going to Davy Jones&#8217; locker, which naturally leads to a discussion of the Monkees. 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