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The report (5)

The party went north to find their next quest, much to Al's displeasure. With a mild party split, one group bought out ANOTHER bar (from a poor man tho, so its k) while the others scouted on. Eventually they'd regroup at Freilhold's great hall. Trying to get the lord's attention they decided to have a round of poker. After a thrilling round (with Skelly ALMOST losing herself to Brazo....fuck, that came out wrong) they got the attention of Bradok the Sly. He quested them to bring him back something alive,  but it was uncertain what... This is where Brazo, Silaka and Chook decided to sit this out as they descused important things. However, thrilled at the thought of disobeying someone and killing something, Lucius led the party to go kill whatever it was was ahead of them. When they arrived, they were greeted with a throne. When one sat on it, they were filled with what they felt like ultimate control and power, though it was just a trick of the minds. Naturally, this did nothing to Jann and Lucius... That's when Al decided to look around....and promptly run back with bad news. Nasties lurked beneath them! At first it seemed fine; a giant rat, a couple of orkish zombies, nothing they couldn't handle. But as the fight started three more figures emerged. One was the throne guardian, a mage sent to protect the throne from theft. One a goblin, her sidekick to scout ahead. And her pet....a 60ft snake. This creature naturally ruffled a few jimmies, attacking the party members. It would've likely ended in blood had Jann not stepped in to tell the mage to stop. Naturally, he crits the persuasion check, so most of the living beasts stand down. The two zorks (yes, that is how I will refer to zombie orks from now on...) and the snake are still pissed though. Al and Lucius do slay the zorcs, but the snake was a problem, flinging Magnus across the room and badly wounding Al. However, they were instructed NOT to kill it. So the weapons were dropped and they tried to punch the snake (after Jann used some well placed snowballs to get it to 1HP, of course)... Al drops his sword and swings...MISS Magnus runs, he can't make it in time... Lucius drops his blade and swings twice ....MISS Snake turn. It eyes up Jann, lunging forward. Could this be it?! ... The snake critically misses and bites its own tail, knocking itself out. VICTORY! After getting the snake to not kill itself the party was awarded 700XP and 30 extra GP (for a non-lethal win). That's were I cut the session. The story of that round isn't finished though, as I ran outa time =P You are told by the mage that the throne is a living being, and in the hands of Bradok he could control everyone he sees fit. Even though he's neutral in the war, this would leave the other 5 kingdoms in peril, so she tells you to leave Winterhelm before Bradok's mercs find you. She and her pet/s will protect the throne from unwanted guests. So the party shall head south, back to the Iron Kingdom. With giant beasts like these being in these dungeons at any point, who knows what you'll fight next.....
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Can you really blame the snake for biting itself though? I mean look how small a target Jann is compared to it. Jann is that little black dot above its tail btw, not the person next to it.  Also, when we talk about this story in taverns in the future we are gonna need to say that lucius Shoryuken-ed it to death or something. The heroes flailed uselessly against the snake until it bit itself to sleep probably isnt what we want the bards singing about us...
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IBMcol80JSs" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IBMcol80JSs</a> Unrelated, but this might give Jann nightmares...
I still can't believe that snake was able to fling a 8 000lb golem 40ft away. That's like throwing a small elephant.
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Haha! You think John!? *Eyes Brazon and Silaka with concern* Jann's a defensive based mage so he wouldn't be too worried about his own health, but if that happened to his daughter....He might have to make an exception to his no killing rules. Just kidding of course, Jann wouldn't kill the man. No, killing him would be too nice. And Cake, 8000lb is not a "small" elephant. Its a fullgrown elephant of the largest species of elephants on rl earth. That being said, snakes are crazy strong and a giant magic snake would be even stronger. Btw, being that heavy means that even a slight fall is painful (just like being tiny makes massive falls less painful). If you ever get flung again you might want to roll damage. Not just for you but for the building. You probably left a meteor-like crater, or a Magnus shaped hole in the earth.
I had to google elephant's avarege weight to see if you were right. I guess the wikipedia is wrong or something. I don't like the idea of taking damage from slight falls. &nbsp; Correct me if I'm wrong, but 8000lb of solid metal should be able to survive small falls. But if you insist, I'll accept taking damage from slight falls as long as it's something reasonable: 1-3 dmg I'd say
Cakestrike said: &nbsp;&nbsp; 8000lb of solid metal 1-3 dmg I'd say put a 10x modifier to that roll to hurt anyone you land on =P
John-Paul K. said: Cakestrike said: &nbsp;&nbsp; 8000lb of solid metal 1-3 dmg I'd say put a 10x modifier to that roll to hurt anyone you land on =P Sounds good! But what counts as a slight drop?
Cakestrike said: John-Paul K. said: Cakestrike said: &nbsp;&nbsp; 8000lb of solid metal 1-3 dmg I'd say put a 10x modifier to that roll to hurt anyone you land on =P Sounds good! But what counts as a slight drop? Probably 10ft or so
John-Paul K. said: Cakestrike said: John-Paul K. said: Cakestrike said: &nbsp;&nbsp; 8000lb of solid metal 1-3 dmg I'd say put a 10x modifier to that roll to hurt anyone you land on =P Sounds good! But what counts as a slight drop? Probably 10ft or so 10ft? Magnus is going to need some dampers in his legs.
Cakestrike said: John-Paul K. said: Cakestrike said: John-Paul K. said: Cakestrike said: &nbsp;&nbsp; 8000lb of solid metal 1-3 dmg I'd say put a 10x modifier to that roll to hurt anyone you land on =P Sounds good! But what counts as a slight drop? Probably 10ft or so 10ft? Magnus is going to need some dampers in his legs. 10ft falls actually do a LOT more than 1-3 damage to squishier things. Would make sense that a living hunk of iron would make it out less damaged
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I'm not familiar with foot unit, so thanks for correcting me.
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10 feet is roughly the height of a 1 story ceiling, or a little over 3 meters. Humans and similar sized squishy creatures take 1d6 per 10ft according to the book. Taking only 1d3 and dealing x10 is pretty sweet. Sure, its gonna be very rare that you will ever get the opportunity to jump down on someone, but the one time in a campaign when you jump out the 3 story castle and onto the baddy below to hulk smash the guy for 80 damage will be very nice. Oh, and your right, it is just an average elephant weight. Not the biggest elephant.&nbsp;
Aubrey H. said: 10 feet is roughly the height of a 1 story ceiling, or a little over 3 meters. Humans and similar sized squishy creatures take 1d6 per 10ft according to the book. Taking only 1d3 and dealing x10 is pretty sweet. Sure, its gonna be very rare that you will ever get the opportunity to jump down on someone, but the one time in a campaign when you jump out the 3 story castle and onto the baddy below to hulk smash the guy for 80 damage will be very nice. Oh, and your right, it is just an average elephant weight. Not the biggest elephant.&nbsp; It happened, and it was glorious XD