{"id":372,"date":"2004-08-18T11:55:00","date_gmt":"2004-08-18T15:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/?p=372"},"modified":"2004-08-18T11:55:00","modified_gmt":"2004-08-18T15:55:00","slug":"dd-week-4-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/?p=372","title":{"rendered":"D&#038;D week 4"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hey, I never posted any highlights from last week&#8217;s game!  Hugely long, so it&#8217;s behind a cut.<\/p>\n<p><!--more On with the show!--><\/p>\n<p>(Tessima is not with us in this adventure.)<\/p>\n<p><b>Blasword:<\/b>\tIs (Deryka) having the same troubles? Or is she not here?<br \/>\n<b>GM Cadaya:<\/b>\tI dunno where she is.<br \/>\n<b>Vaschon:<\/b>\tHar<br \/>\n<b>DRTvini:<\/b>\tI swear, get someone&#8217;s brain sucked out ONCE and they carry a grudge forever.<br \/>\n<b>Blasword:<\/b>\tWell, you were carrying our gold, we had no choice but to follow you.<br \/>\n<b>Blasword:<\/b>:\tPaddywagon Pete would never have done such a heinous act<br \/>\n<b>DRTvini:<\/b>\tPaddywagon Pete would have pissed in his shorts and fled.<br \/>\n<b>Blasword<\/b>::\tYes, thus keeping the gold safe and sound.<br \/>\n<b>DRTvini:<\/b>\tTouche.<br \/>\n<b>DR Deryka:<\/b>\tSowwies. ::hides::<br \/>\n<b>Blasword::<\/b>\tI vote that we condemn (Deryka).<br \/>\n<b>Vaschon:<\/b>\tFor some reason, my brain itches<\/p>\n<p><b>GM Cadaya:<\/b>\tOK, so everyone knows about our new players, right?<br \/>\n<b>Blasword:<\/b>:\tWha?<br \/>\n<b>GM Cadaya:<\/b>\tEr, singular.<br \/>\n<b>DR Deryka:<\/b>\t?<br \/>\n<b>Blasword:<\/b>:\tIs the Mind Flayer joining out team?<br \/>\n<b>GM Cadaya:<\/b>\tOh, I guess (Blasword) doesn&#8217;t know.<br \/>\n<b>GM Cadaya:<\/b>\tWe&#8217;re going to be having a new player join us. Maybe next week.<br \/>\n<b>Blasword:<\/b>:\tAh. Newbie like me or seasoned pro?<br \/>\n<b>DR Deryka:<\/b>\tLet&#8217;s recruit the mind flayer.<br \/>\n<b>GM Cadaya:<\/b>\tSomewhere in the middle.<br \/>\n<b>Blasword:<\/b>:\t&#8220;I&#8217;m puzzled as what to do guys, lets ask the Mind Flayer&#8221;<br \/>\n<b>GM Cadaya:<\/b>\tIt&#8217;s (blank), in case there&#8217;s anyone else I didn&#8217;t tell.<br \/>\n<b>DRTvini:<\/b>\tI see you are all under the thrall of the mind flayer still.<br \/>\n<b>GM Cadaya:<\/b>\t(Blank&#8217;s alias), (Blasword).<br \/>\n<b>DR Deryka<\/b>:\t(Blank!)<br \/>\n<b>Blasword<\/b>::\tVoice of the Mind Flayer: Ah yes, well first we need to get some onions and some SWEEET BRAINS OMG OMG BRAINS&#8230;er where was I.<br \/>\n<b>Blasword:<\/b>:\tahh<br \/>\n<b>Vaschon:<\/b>\tI had a strange dream I saw the Dwarf naked<br \/>\n<b>DRTvini:<\/b>\tHahahahaaaaa!<br \/>\n<b>DRTvini:<\/b>\tAnd ew, (Vaschon).<br \/>\n<b>DRTvini:<\/b>\tI&#8217;m sure that never happened.<br \/>\n<b>Blasword:<\/b>:\tI&#8217;ll try not to scare her.<br \/>\n<b>Vaschon:<\/b>\tThat was my reaction too<br \/>\n<b>DR Deryka:<\/b>\tWell she did strip before jumping in the lava bath.<br \/>\n<b>DRTvini:<\/b>\tHey!  Look, just because you&#8217;re used to twigly Elven ladies is no reason to balk at a full-figured, muscular, hairy Dwarven gal.<br \/>\n<b>DR Deryka:<\/b>\tTwigly?<br \/>\n<b>Blasword:<\/b>\tTwigly.<br \/>\n<b>DR Deryka<\/b>:\t::makes a note::<br \/>\n<b>DRTvini:<\/b>\tIt&#8217;s a word!<br \/>\n<b>N A McD<\/b>:\tTwo words (Tvini), Bikini bare<br \/>\n<b>DRTvini:<\/b>\tAnyway, now it is a word.<br \/>\n<b>DRTvini:<\/b>\tMarty has sensitive skin.<br \/>\n<b>DR Deryka:<\/b>\tSo if I asked for a twigly alteration, you&#8217;d approve it? :flees:<br \/>\n<b>DRTvini<\/b>:\tNo.<br \/>\n<b>DR Deryka:<\/b>\tDarn.<br \/>\n<b>Blasword:<\/b>: )Look stick   )The stick, which is made of wood, is almost twigly in apparance.<\/p>\n<p><b>GM Cadaya:<\/b>\t(Deryka,) tell her you&#8217;re still a GM.<br \/>\n<b>DRTvini<\/b>:\tBlasword understands me.<br \/>\n<b>GM Cadaya:<\/b>\tShe&#8217;s easily confused.<br \/>\n<b>DRTvini:<\/b>\tWait, (Deryka&#8217;s) not a GM???<br \/>\n<b>GM Cadaya:<\/b>\tNeither am I, Heather.<br \/>\n<b>GM Cadaya:<\/b>\tAnd (Tessima), too.<br \/>\n<b>DR Deryka:<\/b>\tYou&#8217;re so confusing (Cadaya).  Stop that.<br \/>\n<b>DRTvini:<\/b>\tI&#8217;m clearly under the thrall of a mind flayer.<br \/>\n<b>DR Deryka:<\/b>\tYou and me both.<br \/>\n<b>DRTvini:<\/b>\tAnd that mind flayer&#8217;s name is (Cadaya).<br \/>\n<b>Blasword:<\/b>\tI don&#8217;t suppose it would be confusing at all if I said I wasn&#8217;t a GM either \ud83d\ude41<br \/>\n<b>GM Cadaya:<\/b>\tAll the cool people already left GMing, so you&#8217;re not missing much.<br \/>\n<b>DRTvini:<\/b>\tHey!<br \/>\n<b>Vaschon:<\/b>\thmph<br \/>\n<b>GM Cadaya:<\/b>\tI mean&#8230; uh&#8230; present company excluded. (snicker)<br \/>\n<b>DRTvini:<\/b>\tNo more sushi for you, pal.<br \/>\n<b>Vaschon:<\/b>\tuh huh<br \/>\n<b>DR Deryka:<\/b>\tYou go girl!<br \/>\n<b>Blasword::<\/b>\theh.<br \/>\n<b>GM Cadaya:<\/b>\tActually, (Tvini) did buy me sushi. As a bribe.<br \/>\n<b>Blasword:<\/b>:\tfrom that college sushi delivery place?<br \/>\n<b>GM Cadaya:<\/b>\tSo you should all thank her for the fact that I&#8217;m going to rewind time for you idiots.<br \/>\n<b>Blasword::<\/b>\twith the mold?<br \/>\n<b>DRTvini:<\/b>\tI make the problem, I fix the problem.<\/p>\n<p><b>GM Cadaya:<\/b>\tSo, I&#8217;ve rewound time to before you stepped on the platforms. We&#8217;re treating it as a valuable lesson for everybody.<br \/>\n<b>GM Cadaya:<\/b>\tWhat do you do now?<br \/>\n<b>DRTvini:<\/b>\tWonder where the hell my damn sushi is.<br \/>\n<b>Blasword:<\/b>\tStep on the platform?<br \/>\n<b>DRTvini:<\/b>\tstare (Blasword).<br \/>\n<b>Vaschon:<\/b>\tsearch the room<br \/>\n<b>Tessima:<\/b>\tHahaha.  (she popped in to watch us be morons)<br \/>\n<b>DR Deryka:\t<\/b>Go back out and camp.<br \/>\n<b>Blasword:<\/b>\tPete wants to go back to the second room with the barrels of oil.<br \/>\n<b>DRTvini:<\/b>\tI say, &#8220;If that creature is responsible for harming my Dwarven brothers and sisters, I must avenge&#8230;&#8221;  Marty spots something shiny and gets distracted.<br \/>\n<b>DRTvini:<\/b>\tMarty says, &#8220;I&#8217;m sorry, what was I saying?&#8221;<br \/>\n<b>Vaschon:<\/b>\tpoints to the Dwarf, points to the platform, shakes his finger.<\/p>\n<p><b>Vaschon:<\/b>\tsays to the Dwarf, &#8220;How about that Mindflayer?&#8221;<br \/>\n<b>DRTvini:<\/b>\tHow about that what?<br \/>\n<b>Vaschon:<\/b>\tscratches his head.<br \/>\n<b>DRTvini:<\/b>\tOh, right, that thing that was fighting the figure in the room that then disappeared!<br \/>\n<b>DRTvini:<\/b>\tYep, that was somethin&#8217;.  Can you believe I resisted its charms?  I&#8217;m very lucky!<br \/>\n<b>DR Deryka:<\/b>\tWhere did he go&#8230;?<br \/>\n<b>DR Deryka:<\/b>\tHm.<br \/>\n<b>DR Deryka:\t<\/b>So we&#8217;re all heading out to camp for the night and rest?<br \/>\n<b>Vaschon:<\/b>\tlooks at the Dwarf sarcastically saying, &#8220;Indeed.&#8221;<br \/>\n<b>GM Cadaya:<\/b>\tSo&#8230; leaving, checking oil room, what? Let&#8217;s decide. <g><br \/>\n<b>Blasword:<\/b>\tleaving.<br \/>\n<b>Vaschon:<\/b>\tleave, rest, go back<br \/>\n<b>Blasword:<\/b>\tnow the elf is cooking with gas!<br \/>\n<b>GM Cadaya:<\/b>\tAll right.<br \/>\n<b>GM Cadaya:<\/b>\tAs you step forth from the mine into the outside world&#8230;<br \/>\n<b>GM Cadaya<\/b>:\tYou see that you are not alone.<br \/>\n<b>DRTvini<\/b>:\tThere&#8217;s a mindflayer!<br \/>\n<b>Blasword:<\/b>\tOr his evil twin!<br \/>\n<b>DR Deryka:<\/b>\tIt&#8217;s a dwarf with a big ole sack of gold and a cure for the plague?<br \/>\n<b>GM Cadaya:<\/b>\tYou seem to be surrounded by what look like soldiers.<br \/>\n<b>DR Deryka:<\/b>\tHm.  Let&#8217;s give &#8217;em the mage.<br \/>\n<b>GM Cadaya:<\/b>\tEach of them is carrying a crossbow, with the exception of the leader, who is holding a drawn sword.<br \/>\n<b>DR Deryka<\/b>:\t::ducks::<br \/>\n<b>Blasword:<\/b>\tPete says, &#8220;Ahhh crap&#8230;er I mean&#8230;::he ponders for a moment:: Ah crap.<\/p>\n<p>At this point, we discover that the mayor lied to us when he gave us some cash to investigate the mines in connection with a plague sweeping the village.  There is no plague in the town, and he clearly sent the imperial guard after us and told them we were thieves.  Jerkwad.  So we all get marched back to town, amid a barrage of amazing lies and attempts to bluff by Paddywagon Pete, and they try to load us into a cart to ship us off.<\/p>\n<p><b>DR Deryka<\/b>:\tI sneeze on the soldier trying to shove me in the carriage.<br \/>\n<b>GM Cadaya:<\/b>\tHe pushes Cleric harder.<br \/>\n<b>DR Deryka<\/b>:\tCan I throw up on cue?<br \/>\n<b>Vaschon:<\/b>\tHey!  Don&#8217;t break any of our sunrods.<br \/>\n<b>GM Cadaya:<\/b>\tNo.<br \/>\n<b>Blasword:<\/b>\tPete\/Valastior says to the guard, &#8220;Hey! Don&#8217;t manhandle my wife! She&#8217;s pregnant!&#8221;<br \/>\n<b>Vaschon<\/b>:\tI roll my eyes<br \/>\n<b>DR Deryka:<\/b>\tHearing Pete, I obligingly swoon, falling away from the carriage.<br \/>\n<b>Blasword:<\/b>\t&#8220;My wife! You scoundrel!!&#8221;<br \/>\n<b>Vaschon:<\/b>\tI tell them about Daisy, she was with us.  (Daisy is Tessima&#8217;s character.)<br \/>\n<b>Blasword<\/b>:\t&#8220;Oh my&#8230;by the gods!! My wife! My child!!!&#8221;<br \/>\n<b>Vaschon<\/b>:\tWasn&#8217;t she a soldier?<br \/>\n<b>DR Deryka<\/b>:\tYa.<br \/>\n<b>GM Cadaya:<\/b>\tYou realize you haven&#8217;t seen the sorcerer since the soldiers came.<br \/>\n<b>DRTvini:<\/b>\tI shriek and flail my arms.<br \/>\n<b>GM Cadaya:<\/b>\tYou wonder where she is.<br \/>\n<b>DR Deryka:<\/b>\tI hang like a dead weight, drooling on the top of a soldier&#8217;s head.<br \/>\n<b>DRTvini:<\/b>\tDaisy ain&#8217;t no spy.  Why, she encouraged me to step on the&#8230; oh, right.<br \/>\n<b>Blasword:<\/b>\t&#8220;My wife! My poor wife! Please be gentle with her!!!&#8221;<br \/>\n<b>Vaschon:<\/b>\tSpeak of the flower<br \/>\n<b>GM Cadaya:<\/b>\tSo I&#8217;m assuming we&#8217;re done drawing out the being put into the cart section? (g)<br \/>\n<b>DRTvini:<\/b>\t&#8220;Is this any way to treat a lady??&#8221;<br \/>\n<b>DRTvini:<\/b>\tHmph.<br \/>\n<b>DR Deryka:<\/b>\tI&#8217;m trying to unnerve the soldiers.  If I can&#8217;t, then he must be in on the ruse. \ud83d\ude1b<br \/>\n<b>DRTvini:<\/b>\tSome people have no appreciation for over the top melodrama.<br \/>\n<b>DR Deryka:<\/b>\t::nods sagely to (Tvini)::<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re taken to the castle and thrown into the dungeon.<\/p>\n<p><b>GM Cadaya:<\/b>\tThey take you to an empty set of cells, and throw you all in, two per cell &#8212; with cleric being tossed into a cell with someone else.<br \/>\n<b>Blasword:<\/b>\t&#8220;My wife!!!&#8221;<br \/>\n<b>Blasword:<\/b>\tWait no, theres just 4 of us isn&#8217;t there?<br \/>\n<b>DR Deryka:<\/b>\t&#8220;Kid, if you call me your wife one more time, I&#8217;m gonna shove a sunrod where the sun DOESN&#8217;T shine.&#8221;<br \/>\n<b>Vaschon:<\/b>\theh<br \/>\n<b>GM Cadaya:<\/b>\tSo you are. OK, rogue is alone.<br \/>\n<b>Blasword:<\/b>\tI am?<br \/>\n<b>Blasword:<\/b>\tGod I wish I had those lockpicking skills now.<br \/>\n<b>GM Cadaya:<\/b>\tYes, everyone begged not to be in a cell with you.<\/p>\n<p><b>Vaschon:<\/b>\tNot only am I shackled in a tiny cell, I&#8217;m with the Dwarf.<br \/>\n<b>DR Deryka:<\/b>\tDid they take my sunrods?<br \/>\n<b>DRTvini:<\/b>\tI kick over the bedding with my toe to check for insect infestation, trying to decide whether to sit on it.<br \/>\n<b>DRTvini:<\/b>\tPlease let them have taken her sunrods.<\/p>\n<p><b>Blasword:<\/b>\tmy shackles, are they heavy and hard enough to knock someone unconcious with a blow to the head? Also, I want to search my cell.<br \/>\n<b>DRTvini:<\/b>\tI decide to just do some deep knee bends instead, and begin exercising, while huffing and groaning.<br \/>\n<b>OnlineHost:<\/b>\tBlasword: rolled 1 20-sided die:  9<br \/>\n<b>GM Cadaya<\/b>:\tRogue finds some urine soaked straw, and some lumps of feces.<br \/>\n<b>Vaschon:<\/b>\theh<br \/>\n<b>Blasword:<\/b>\tew<br \/>\n<b>DRTvini:<\/b>\tHe gets feces?  Lucky rascal.<\/p>\n<p>We were all having connection troubles:<\/p>\n<p><b>GM Cadaya:<\/b>\tOK, I think we should call this a night for the game.<br \/>\n<b>GM Cadaya:<\/b>\tSorry. This is no fun like this.<br \/>\n<b>DRTvini:<\/b>\tDamn mind flayers taking over AOL.<br \/>\n<b>DR Deryka<\/b>:\t::rubs::<br \/>\n<b>Blasword:<\/b>\tokay back<br \/>\n<b>DRTvini:<\/b>\tThanks anyway, (Cadaya)!<br \/>\n<b>Blasword:<\/b>\tWe gonna try to keep going?<br \/>\n<b>DRTvini:<\/b>\tNaw, we can start fresh in the dungeon next week.<br \/>\n<b>GM Cadaya:<\/b>\tNo, this is way too annoying.<br \/>\n<b>Blasword:<\/b>\tah okay.<br \/>\n<b>Blasword:<\/b>\tI had fun.<br \/>\n<b>DRTvini:<\/b>\tIt&#8217;ll be a lovely week spent on lice-infested mattresses in urine-soaked cells, trying to fight off the rats.<br \/>\n<b>GM Cadaya:<\/b>\tPeople are dropping left and right and lagging like mad and all that.<br \/>\n<b>GM Cadaya:<\/b>\tAnyway, you all get 90 xp.<br \/>\n<b>DR Deryka:<\/b>\tLevel!<br \/>\n<b>DR Deryka<\/b>:\tWait, we get exp for drooling on guards?<br \/>\n<b>DRTvini:<\/b>\tWe creatively tried to come up with ways out!<br \/>\n<b>Blasword:<\/b>\tOkay, can someoen teach me what to do when I level, if that is what I just did?<br \/>\n<b>DRTvini:<\/b>\tPlus you had to handle feces.<br \/>\n<b>DRTvini:<\/b>\tHey, with a level, we should go back and take on the mind flayer!<\/p>\n<p>Aaaaand that&#8217;s it until next week!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hey, I never posted any highlights from last week&#8217;s game! 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