The Devil Made Me Do It
Oct. 23rd, 2012 01:48 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
eveglassAnd that's a wrap! With all the devils safely defeated and their essences flung somewhere into the cosmic garburator, all that remains is for Baska to step up to the plate to take responsibility when her uncle the king wants an accounting, and for the rest of Our Heroes (tm) to skip town before they get caught in the backlash.
[The final devil is dead, but we still have the essences of the other devils in six rings. The question is, what do we do about them?]
Ionas: "We need a bag of holding."
Baska: "Are you planning what I think you're planning?"
Ionas: "I think so, Baska..."
[The plan: put the rings in one bag of holding, and put that bag of holding in another bag of holding. We read the rules just to be sure of what happens, and it turns out that the bags and their contents will be 'lost forever.']
Eric: "'Lost forever' is a relative term."
Shawn: "Do we want to do that, or find a more permanent solution."
Robert the GM: "What part of 'lost forever' isn't permanent?!"
[The problem with Plan A: anything within a 10-foot radius of the bags will also be sucked into the void and lost forever. We try to figure out how to enact our plan without anyone dying.]
Julie: "There are certainly ways to put one bag of holding in another bag of holding without being in a 10-foot radius."
Shawn: "Please! We need to make this needlessly complicated!"
[Andrew didn't attend last night's session because he was sick. Naturally, we turn to him as our non-present scapegoat.]
Adam: "Here's how the game ends: 'Gorka'munda, put this bag in this other bag!'"
[We contemplate what to tell Andrew if we get Gorka'munda to enact the 'bags of holding' plan.]
Adam: "Andrew, we have good news and bad news. The good news is you're a hero..."
[As a reminder, we still have Narrask's co-conspirator, the elf Baerlyn, at the Temple of Eliath.]
Baska: "Uh... does anyone want to question the elf?"
Dan: *eagerly raises hand*
[We come no closer to enacting our plan.]
Robert the GM: "Ideally I'd like everyone here at the last session."
Adam: "So what should we do this session?"
Robert the GM: "Keep doing what you're doing."
Adam: "Arguing?"
Robert the GM: "It's what you do most of the time in this game."
[Of course, there are other ways to be within the 10-foot blast radius without endangering any of the PCs.]
Shawn: "You can summon stuff! Why are we killing off Gorka'munda?"
Adam: "Dramatic effect."
[Robert the GM calls Andrew on the phone to get his opinion on using Gorka'munda to put the bag of holding into the other bag of holding.]
Robert the GM: (to Andrew) "I promise not to send your character to Sto-vo-kor unless you are personally here to see it."
Julie: "Adam, we need you to drive and drive now!"
[Of course, there's probably a way to set up the bags of holding so no one dies.]
Robert the GM: "I really like the idea of setting up a Rube Goldberg machine."
[While we're arguing, we receive a summons from the king, who wants to know what the heck is going on.]
Erin: "I thought he was dead."
Julie: "No, just mad."
Erin: "And now he's not mad?"
Shawn: "Now he's peeved."
[The king thanks Our Heroes (tm) for their efforts, then tries to convince them to hand over the rings for 'proper disposal.']
King Othalam: "We should give them to our scholars and wizards to make sure nothing goes awry."
Julie: "I look to my companions."
Ionas: (in stage-whisper) "Is disagreeing with the king punishable by death?"
[Baska agrees that we'll take the rings over to the king's wizards. Naturally, she has no intention of keeping this promise.]
Adam: "We'd probably be under guard the whole time."
Julie: "Yeah. Whatever."
Shawn: "Does this mean Dan can knock people out?"
Julie: "Yes."
Shawn: "Hooray!"
[The king modifies Baska's plan.]
King Othalam: "Mathias will take the rings."
Dan: *laughs uproariously* "Oh! Your Majesty has a most wonderful sense of humor!"
Robert the GM: "Everyone looks at you."
Dan: "Oh... you weren't... Well, this is awkward."
[Instead of handing over the rings to the king's guard, we teleport to the Temple of Eliath to enact Plan A.]
Robert the GM: "You just teleport in front of the king?"
Julie: "I've always been the black sheep of the family. I see no reason to stop now."
[We get Pierce, High Priest of Eliath, to summon a celestial monkey to put the bag of holding into the other bag of holding.]
Robert the GM: "The monkey is brilliant white. It looks up plaintively at you."
Adam: "He's trying to make us feel bad about the monkey! Don't fall for it!"
[The monkey puts the bag of holding into the other bag of holding. There is a mighty thunderclap as everything within a 10-foot radius, including the air, furniture, and anything not nailed down, is taken into the cosmic void. The temple is quite damaged.]
Eric: "...I admit, that was stronger than I anticipated."
[As Our Heroes (tm) stand in the wreckage they have wrought, Erin asks the natural question.]
Erin: "Is there a big blue police box?"
[Not only has everything in a 10-foot radius been sucked into the cosmic void, even the more solid construction is affected.]
Robert the GM: "The ground is actually turned upward."
Eric: "We'll just put the altar over it -- no one will notice."
[So the game is over. Mostly.]
Dan: "Now all we have to-- All you have to do is explain this to the king."
[Our Heroes (tm) decide that discretion is the better part of valor.]
Ionas: "We need someone to cast wind walk on us."
Pierce: "Immediately?"
Jace: "What part of heroically running away did you not understand?"
[As everyone but Baska heroically runs away, the doors burst open to admit the king's guards. Eric and Shawn act out their likely reactions.]
Eric: "A guardman trips over the uneven floor."
Shawn: "You'd think a place like this would have windows."
Eric: "And what's with all the broken glass?"
[Baska, the only PC who didn't run away, is taken back before her uncle the king.]
King Othalam: "Why would you contradict what I told you?"
Eric: "Because it was a stupid command!"
[Baska fast-talks her uncle the king.]
Eric: "Congratulations, you've talked your execution down from painful to not so terrible."
[While Baska is put under house arrest, everyone else arrives in Mirrarod, at the Temple of Eliath.]
Eric: "First, I ask for political asylum."
Cleric of Eliath: "I'm not sure we can grant you political asylum from our own king..."
Eric: "What else are churches for?!"
[Other people have different priorities.]
Shawn: "Dan gets drinks and prostitutes."
Robert the GM: "Drinks and prostitutes for everyone!"
Shawn: "No, just me. Everyone else can buy their own."
[Things start winding down.]
Robert the GM: "Congratulations, guys. I guess the campaign's kinda over."
Shawn: "Do we level up?"
Robert the GM: "...Sure."
[Naturally, there needs to be an epilogue.]
Shawn: "Gorka'munda was lit of fire. He's survived by his sister Shesh and his cat."
So that's it, the very last Devil Made Me Do It unless we have an epilogue session next week. It's been lots of fun, and I look forward to seeing what we all come up with next!
[The final devil is dead, but we still have the essences of the other devils in six rings. The question is, what do we do about them?]
Ionas: "We need a bag of holding."
Baska: "Are you planning what I think you're planning?"
Ionas: "I think so, Baska..."
[The plan: put the rings in one bag of holding, and put that bag of holding in another bag of holding. We read the rules just to be sure of what happens, and it turns out that the bags and their contents will be 'lost forever.']
Eric: "'Lost forever' is a relative term."
Shawn: "Do we want to do that, or find a more permanent solution."
Robert the GM: "What part of 'lost forever' isn't permanent?!"
[The problem with Plan A: anything within a 10-foot radius of the bags will also be sucked into the void and lost forever. We try to figure out how to enact our plan without anyone dying.]
Julie: "There are certainly ways to put one bag of holding in another bag of holding without being in a 10-foot radius."
Shawn: "Please! We need to make this needlessly complicated!"
[Andrew didn't attend last night's session because he was sick. Naturally, we turn to him as our non-present scapegoat.]
Adam: "Here's how the game ends: 'Gorka'munda, put this bag in this other bag!'"
[We contemplate what to tell Andrew if we get Gorka'munda to enact the 'bags of holding' plan.]
Adam: "Andrew, we have good news and bad news. The good news is you're a hero..."
[As a reminder, we still have Narrask's co-conspirator, the elf Baerlyn, at the Temple of Eliath.]
Baska: "Uh... does anyone want to question the elf?"
Dan: *eagerly raises hand*
[We come no closer to enacting our plan.]
Robert the GM: "Ideally I'd like everyone here at the last session."
Adam: "So what should we do this session?"
Robert the GM: "Keep doing what you're doing."
Adam: "Arguing?"
Robert the GM: "It's what you do most of the time in this game."
[Of course, there are other ways to be within the 10-foot blast radius without endangering any of the PCs.]
Shawn: "You can summon stuff! Why are we killing off Gorka'munda?"
Adam: "Dramatic effect."
[Robert the GM calls Andrew on the phone to get his opinion on using Gorka'munda to put the bag of holding into the other bag of holding.]
Robert the GM: (to Andrew) "I promise not to send your character to Sto-vo-kor unless you are personally here to see it."
Julie: "Adam, we need you to drive and drive now!"
[Of course, there's probably a way to set up the bags of holding so no one dies.]
Robert the GM: "I really like the idea of setting up a Rube Goldberg machine."
[While we're arguing, we receive a summons from the king, who wants to know what the heck is going on.]
Erin: "I thought he was dead."
Julie: "No, just mad."
Erin: "And now he's not mad?"
Shawn: "Now he's peeved."
[The king thanks Our Heroes (tm) for their efforts, then tries to convince them to hand over the rings for 'proper disposal.']
King Othalam: "We should give them to our scholars and wizards to make sure nothing goes awry."
Julie: "I look to my companions."
Ionas: (in stage-whisper) "Is disagreeing with the king punishable by death?"
[Baska agrees that we'll take the rings over to the king's wizards. Naturally, she has no intention of keeping this promise.]
Adam: "We'd probably be under guard the whole time."
Julie: "Yeah. Whatever."
Shawn: "Does this mean Dan can knock people out?"
Julie: "Yes."
Shawn: "Hooray!"
[The king modifies Baska's plan.]
King Othalam: "Mathias will take the rings."
Dan: *laughs uproariously* "Oh! Your Majesty has a most wonderful sense of humor!"
Robert the GM: "Everyone looks at you."
Dan: "Oh... you weren't... Well, this is awkward."
[Instead of handing over the rings to the king's guard, we teleport to the Temple of Eliath to enact Plan A.]
Robert the GM: "You just teleport in front of the king?"
Julie: "I've always been the black sheep of the family. I see no reason to stop now."
[We get Pierce, High Priest of Eliath, to summon a celestial monkey to put the bag of holding into the other bag of holding.]
Robert the GM: "The monkey is brilliant white. It looks up plaintively at you."
Adam: "He's trying to make us feel bad about the monkey! Don't fall for it!"
[The monkey puts the bag of holding into the other bag of holding. There is a mighty thunderclap as everything within a 10-foot radius, including the air, furniture, and anything not nailed down, is taken into the cosmic void. The temple is quite damaged.]
Eric: "...I admit, that was stronger than I anticipated."
[As Our Heroes (tm) stand in the wreckage they have wrought, Erin asks the natural question.]
Erin: "Is there a big blue police box?"
[Not only has everything in a 10-foot radius been sucked into the cosmic void, even the more solid construction is affected.]
Robert the GM: "The ground is actually turned upward."
Eric: "We'll just put the altar over it -- no one will notice."
[So the game is over. Mostly.]
Dan: "Now all we have to-- All you have to do is explain this to the king."
[Our Heroes (tm) decide that discretion is the better part of valor.]
Ionas: "We need someone to cast wind walk on us."
Pierce: "Immediately?"
Jace: "What part of heroically running away did you not understand?"
[As everyone but Baska heroically runs away, the doors burst open to admit the king's guards. Eric and Shawn act out their likely reactions.]
Eric: "A guardman trips over the uneven floor."
Shawn: "You'd think a place like this would have windows."
Eric: "And what's with all the broken glass?"
[Baska, the only PC who didn't run away, is taken back before her uncle the king.]
King Othalam: "Why would you contradict what I told you?"
Eric: "Because it was a stupid command!"
[Baska fast-talks her uncle the king.]
Eric: "Congratulations, you've talked your execution down from painful to not so terrible."
[While Baska is put under house arrest, everyone else arrives in Mirrarod, at the Temple of Eliath.]
Eric: "First, I ask for political asylum."
Cleric of Eliath: "I'm not sure we can grant you political asylum from our own king..."
Eric: "What else are churches for?!"
[Other people have different priorities.]
Shawn: "Dan gets drinks and prostitutes."
Robert the GM: "Drinks and prostitutes for everyone!"
Shawn: "No, just me. Everyone else can buy their own."
[Things start winding down.]
Robert the GM: "Congratulations, guys. I guess the campaign's kinda over."
Shawn: "Do we level up?"
Robert the GM: "...Sure."
[Naturally, there needs to be an epilogue.]
Shawn: "Gorka'munda was lit of fire. He's survived by his sister Shesh and his cat."
So that's it, the very last Devil Made Me Do It unless we have an epilogue session next week. It's been lots of fun, and I look forward to seeing what we all come up with next!
