The voice of doom!
Apr. 5th, 2011 09:20 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
eveglassRemember how I said that last week we managed to open a door and get through one combat round? This week, we did even less than that! One combat round in two hours of gameplay! Yay! When combat is *this* long epic, you know it's gotta be the Voice of Doom!
[We're laying out the tactical grid for combat, and have chosen to use coins to represent most of the NPCs. Compulsive as I am, I arranged it so that the more challenging the NPC, the larger the denomination of coin.]
Eric: "Ignore the pennies! Attack the quarters!"
[Of course, other people felt perfectly free to use the NPC coins to their own nefarious purposes.]
Eric: "Heads or tails?"
Adam: "Heads."
Eric: "Curses, we're doomed."
[Vlaakith might be the Lich Queen, but I bet she's never faced Neyrr Jesond before!]
Andrew the GM: "She's completely convinced she can destroy you."
Erin (sympathetically): "Oh, honey."
[Someone has apparently read the Evil Overlord handbook.]
Andrew the GM: "She's not about to monologue in her moment of triumph."
[Vlaakith the Lich Queen challenges Neyrr to a wizards' duel, and projects it to every plane in the multiverse.]
Eric: "As every wizard knows, there's no such thing as a fair wizards' duel."
[Azlo's old friend Evars has clearly not been paying attention.]
Evars: "If this starts going badly, I'm out of here."
Eric: "Starts going badly?"
[Have I mentioned that we really have no plan whatsoever?]
Adam: "You've fallen into our trap of incompetency!"
Erin: "Those are all our traps."
[Zath gets knocked out when one of the gith hits him with a powerful arcane scepter. Sadly, the only two characters with knowledge: arcana are Neyrr, who's on the other side of the room and too busy to explain what just happened, and Zath himself.]
Erin (as Asera): "Zath, what just happened to you? Zath? Zath! Wake up!"
[The Voice of Doom equivalent of 'just one more turn.']
Eric: "I would like to do the scene that might destroy my character."
[We've just met yet another gith who claims to be Zath, leader of the githyanki rebellion.]
Andrew the GM: "So now there are three fake Zaths, plus the real one."
Erin: "Damn you, common githyanki name!"
[Azlo knows the meaning of the word 'overkill,' he just chooses to ignore it sometimes. Like when he can kill Malik.]
Andrew the GM: "You're attacking someone prone with avalanche of blades?!"
Eric (as Azlo): "I'm only sorry he's awake."
[Neyrr's megalomania knows no bounds.]
Neyrr: "Why on earth would anyone in this scene not be targeting me?"
['Alive' is such a strong word.]
Adam: "He looks alive?"
Eric: "Well, animate."
Next week, the epic conclusion to the combat, or just more fighting? Who knows! If all goes according to plan, the Lich Queen might wind up a fig tree. If it doesn't, we may all be dead. Come back next time to find out which it'll be!
[We're laying out the tactical grid for combat, and have chosen to use coins to represent most of the NPCs. Compulsive as I am, I arranged it so that the more challenging the NPC, the larger the denomination of coin.]
Eric: "Ignore the pennies! Attack the quarters!"
[Of course, other people felt perfectly free to use the NPC coins to their own nefarious purposes.]
Eric: "Heads or tails?"
Adam: "Heads."
Eric: "Curses, we're doomed."
[Vlaakith might be the Lich Queen, but I bet she's never faced Neyrr Jesond before!]
Andrew the GM: "She's completely convinced she can destroy you."
Erin (sympathetically): "Oh, honey."
[Someone has apparently read the Evil Overlord handbook.]
Andrew the GM: "She's not about to monologue in her moment of triumph."
[Vlaakith the Lich Queen challenges Neyrr to a wizards' duel, and projects it to every plane in the multiverse.]
Eric: "As every wizard knows, there's no such thing as a fair wizards' duel."
[Azlo's old friend Evars has clearly not been paying attention.]
Evars: "If this starts going badly, I'm out of here."
Eric: "Starts going badly?"
[Have I mentioned that we really have no plan whatsoever?]
Adam: "You've fallen into our trap of incompetency!"
Erin: "Those are all our traps."
[Zath gets knocked out when one of the gith hits him with a powerful arcane scepter. Sadly, the only two characters with knowledge: arcana are Neyrr, who's on the other side of the room and too busy to explain what just happened, and Zath himself.]
Erin (as Asera): "Zath, what just happened to you? Zath? Zath! Wake up!"
[The Voice of Doom equivalent of 'just one more turn.']
Eric: "I would like to do the scene that might destroy my character."
[We've just met yet another gith who claims to be Zath, leader of the githyanki rebellion.]
Andrew the GM: "So now there are three fake Zaths, plus the real one."
Erin: "Damn you, common githyanki name!"
[Azlo knows the meaning of the word 'overkill,' he just chooses to ignore it sometimes. Like when he can kill Malik.]
Andrew the GM: "You're attacking someone prone with avalanche of blades?!"
Eric (as Azlo): "I'm only sorry he's awake."
[Neyrr's megalomania knows no bounds.]
Neyrr: "Why on earth would anyone in this scene not be targeting me?"
['Alive' is such a strong word.]
Adam: "He looks alive?"
Eric: "Well, animate."
Next week, the epic conclusion to the combat, or just more fighting? Who knows! If all goes according to plan, the Lich Queen might wind up a fig tree. If it doesn't, we may all be dead. Come back next time to find out which it'll be!
