Señor Major Jr. Sr.'s Missions

[Cellidor (Sam)]

*Note - To Luchas or non Luchas who plan to go on the eventual rescue mission, skip the briefing to avoid spoilers.*

Mission Briefing -

The Adventuring group of Sledge, Yanny, and Jim were each to investigate the sudden appearance of a tall wizard's tower near a settlement within the Elven Kingdom. Upon inspection of the mysteriously empty village, they find out from the lone remaining blacksmith that the townsfolk had all left once the tower appeared. Following some rather questionable activity within said blacksmith's shop, the party continued onwards to the tower.

Within the first floor of the tower, they were met with a rather giant individual, who offered for them to play a game for their passage further up. After ending up with some interesting and sometimes fruity side effects, along with Yanny getting himself into a sticky situation, Sledge decided to end the game as the party fought with the giant. Swiftly bringing the fight to a close, they continued upwards.

The party soon found that a giant was the least of their troubles, having to contend with magical traps, puzzles, beasts of remarkable sizes and powers, even having to turn on themselves at one point! Thankfully, the might of the barbarian, the power and versatility of the alchemist, and the squishy distract-ability of the bard, allowed the group to proceed to higher and higher levels. In time (and with a few rather unpleasant deaths), the party made their way to the top of the tower, to find an ancient wizard, who it turned out was imprisoned within his own tower thanks to his own traps. Deciding to try and bring the wizard out of the tower, Yanny ended up snapping his neck instead, causing the tower to begin it's collapse. Making a break for it and snagging some fancy looking items on the way down, they each managed to escape safely (save for the alchemist who was killed earlier but all in all really wasn't that phased by it). With the tower gone, their mission was considered a success, and the party was allowed to keep (for the most part) the items they'd gotten.

Rewards:

Yanny -

You've managed to grab a small handheld mirror. Nicknamed "The Mirror of Tihssiht Kuff", it holds similar properties to the larger version you saw on one of the top-most floors of the tower.
twice per day, you may as a swift action point the mirror towards any one being you choose. The mirror will then shatter, and a shadowy clone of whomever you pointed at will appear adjacent to you (or as close as possible). This clone acts immediately after your turn under your command, and disappears at the start of your next turn.
The mirror then begins to repair itself, but this is a lengthy process taking 1D10 + 2 minutes before it can be used again.

Sledge -

While attempting to later identify the magical properties of the many items you claimed, one of the numerous traps guarding the treasures you set off turned out to be a curse of rather extreme misfortune. Through a series of unfortunate events, each of the items you claimed ended up stolen, shattered, warped in unthinkable ways, brought to another plane of existence, etc. By the time this curse is removed, you've been left with but one, the massive room-sized claymore. Although, as the sword itself was damaged during the collapse of the tower, it's more or less good only for a set piece in your home.

...However.

Thanks to some assistance from a fellow coalition member who felt sorry for you after seeing the effects the curse had, he was able to transfer some of the bizarre and powerful abilities of the claymore into your own blade.
Once per adventure now, by uttering the command word of your choice, your sword will grow into a colossal size + blade and glow with intense magical powers. The blade is unimaginably heavy in this form, allowing you to only swing it once as a full-round action regardless of your current size.

When swung, it hits everything in its path from the ground to 15 feet in the air. The blade's length reaches 30 feet in front of you, and the arc can be between 90 and 180 degrees wide. Anything with at least half of its square in the arc is considered hit by the blade. Roll an attack for each being in the blade's path vs their normal AC. The blade itself acts as a +5 Vorpal weapon dealing 10d6 damage on a successful hit, half of that if it misses (The damage follows the rules of evasion and improved evasion as if it were a reflex save). This attack -can- hit allies, so caution should be taken. After the swing, your sword will return to its original size once again and you will be fatigued for one round afterwords (You cannot negate this fatigue effect yourself). To recharge this ability, you must allow your blade to absorb the resonant energies of the original by resting it nearby for at least 24 hours.

Jim -

The item you recovered at the collapsed mage's tower is a baseball-sized crystal, which managed to land outside of the rubble unharmed. It turns out that this ball used to belong to one of the occupants of the tower, providing an interesting benefit to your thrown weapons...(Message me to get the full details on what this crystal does).

[viamede]

That's Pretty damn sexy, i'm assuming the aoe damage is 10d6 + 1.5str and power attack as per a two handed weapon wielded? Also colossal+ damage for a greatsword is 12d6
also the DC for evasion is my to-hit roll right?

[viamede]

and the squishy distract-ability of the bard

lol

[Cellidor (Sam)]

Mar 25, 2013 22:15:59 GMT -5 viamede said:

That's Pretty damn sexy, i'm assuming the aoe damage is 10d6 + 1.5str and power attack as per a two handed weapon wielded? Also colossal+ damage for a greatsword is 12d6
also the DC for evasion is my to-hit roll right?

Oh, it's not a DC for evasion. What I mean by that is that if your rolled attack misses an enemy who has evasion, they take no damage, and if it hits an enemy with improved evasion, they take half damage regardless.

Also, I made the damage specifically 10d6 to take into account the other effects of the sword, such as power attack and your 1.5 added strength damage, and the fact that it's so unwieldy to use.

[viamede]

ok sounds good.
also


GIGA DRILLUUUU BREAKAAAAAAAA

though not really

[Cellidor (Sam)]

Mar 26, 2013 0:34:58 GMT -5 viamede said:

GIGA DRILLUUUU BREAKAAAAAAAA

though not really

Haha, that's true! Though perhaps giving you that item will just turn out to be an utter... catastrophe?

www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=6LnrO36JSQk#t=19s

[Cellidor (Sam)]

Mission - Enter, The Worldship.

Adventuring party roll call! This week featuring -

Derrel! - The alchemist bomber, in more ways than one!
Jim! - The psychotic alchemist with unquestionably questionable morals!
Roof-lays-yeah! - "Is he? He is. I'mma charge him? I'mma charge him. I'mma chargin."
Squishy!(Yanny) - It slices! It dices! Into multiple pieces! Watch enthralled as this Bard loses limb after limb only to come back for more!

Mission briefing -

The party was given a task most secretive, within the secretly hidden order of secrecy inside a bumby-kinda house in the outskirts of Last Hope. According to their mission director, one Senor Major, A great new threat was threatening to overshadow the lands of the planet Mirren, as if this place hadn't already dealt with -enough- of that sorta thing. The director explained how he'd been met by a tall manish-man of sorts, who proclaimed that he was going to "purify the planet" after seeing how much it had fallen and the rampant misuse of magic across the everywhere.

Deciding that this was totally not cool, the collective order had decided to hire these brave adventurers so they could take down this fellow before he did what was more than likely to be something both dastardly and uncomfortable.

Each of the party was given a silver metal choker of sorts to wear around their necks. These would anchor them to the teleportation device that would allow them to make it to the massive ship that had appeared above the planet in orbit, which they were mostly sure was owned by this same tall fellow. Should one of the party fall, which they felt seemed likely, the chokers would bring them back, and their healers could go about restoring them, though there was no guarantee how fast they would make it back to the ship.

Upon arrival at the ship on a small outlook near the rear, the party had a truly epic fight to deal with involving ten mighty bronze statues. Of course in reality these statues were kinda pissants and didn't last long enough to be of much concern. Also Jim threw a muffin at the planet, so, that's a thing.

Entering into the worldship itself, the party was faced with a choice of three separate hallways. Utilizing what had to be a great deal of collective intellect, they split the party and went in different directions. Derrel managed to avoid getting face-punched in the face by some powerful looking thing, while Squishy and roofyroof stood perplexed at a room towards the center of the ship containing an elder gravity elemental. Jim, going the other way than any of them, found himself in an interesting looking cafeteria of sorts, the rest of the party soon following.

Within the cafeteria was a great collection of powerful demons, devils, even angels, each at their own tables, some intermingling, and enjoying one hell of a lunch. Upon sitting down and chatting with some of them, the party found out that the ship was mostly empty, the majority of them taking their lunch break. Seeing as a magical identification pass of sorts was needed to move through the ship, the party realized that they had only a half-hour before this lunch would be over, and those eating would start giving a fuck and likely do horrible things to the group.

Clearly, to solve this problem, they would have to get into the main command room of the ship and take out it's leader, whom they discovered to be one "Lord Dhaos". However, to get into his command room required three specific runes, only held by those of highest importance within the ship. Thus began their search. The first rune, they found, was in possession of the individual who tried to punch Derrel earlier. Of course, this wasn't due to prior knowledge of it's rune, moreso just for the sake of taking him down, albeit nonlethaly. After taking the Star Archon down, Derrel used the Archon's identification amulet to begin dicking around with the spaceships on the dock the Archon had been on, of which only two remained because they'd all turned into golems during the fight but got beat up then changed back again and I swear it made more sense if you were there. Also the Archon woke up, and it turned out the Amulets they all wore were a sorta-not-really mind manipulation device designed to blind those who wore it to the appearance and alignment of those around them, explaining why those of opposed alignments would dine so merrily in the lunch room.

Leaving Derrel to continue dangerously messing around with technology he didn't understand, the rest of the party continued to the lunchroom, to check out the kitchen. There they found out that the head chef, a powerful Vrolikai, had the next rune they needed, though he was also being assisted by two -other- Vrolikai's too (the head chef had the tall hat, you see). Squishy lived up well to his name in the ensuing struggle, getting so many negative levels that he died and became a Juju zombie, which is actually less awesome a creature than it sounds, apparently.

Things looked grim with one party member down, one dicking around elsewhere, and the three demons being joined by a summoned Marilith. However, one of the demons was then taken down early thanks to some stupid what-the-hell charges in a surprise round (stupid roofroof) and Jim's bombs. Things began to look all the better when suddenly, a massive photonic torpedo fired by their previously amiss party member crashed into the ceiling and vaporized one of the other demons! Afterwords, the marilith was easily taken down after being given a magical energy drink and being blade-sploded into a shower of blades everywhere (Yeah, I know), followed by mr. charge-build decimating the head chef and leaving him face-first in the soup of the day.

with two runes found, the party turned to the next logical location, the center of the ship, wherin the Elder gravity elemental resided. Upon entering, the gravity elemental split into three, and a fight ensued! However, the elemental broke off the fight before it could be won, deciding that maintaining the worldship's internal gravity was more important than protecting a rune.

With three runes collected, the party, tired and weary as it were, made their way into the command area, to fight Dhaos himself. Being further weakened before the fight could begin thanks to some powerful magics ("Of course..." Squishy proclaimed) they fought valiantly against the powerful Magus-from-another-dimension, only to find that killing him once only defeated him in his first form! Transforming into two new powerful creatures, one of which made roof-raptor-rider confused, it was all the more of a struggle for the party to battle on. With spells and bombs all but run out, and one party member unconscious, another close joining him, The magic-using part of Dhaos' form was defeated by one of Derrel's bombs, the physically powerful form taken out by bombs, Squishy-attacks, and a lance to the back of the head! Scraping this victory by the skin of their teeth, the collective group looted some fancy looking orbs, and made a dramatic escape from the Worldship using the fighter spaceship that Derrel had learned to sorta-fly before the Worldship warped away!

Loot-check:

Jim - You've looted the Orb of Orangitude. It acts much like an Ioun Stone, and grants you a +2 bonus to your Int and 5 Sonic/Force Resist. **(See below for further details...)
As well, you've gained a new spell-like ability "touch of the day". if you successfully perform a touch-attack on any being, they take 10 fire damage and smell like the soup of the day. Delicious, delicious soup of the day.

Squishy - You've looted the Globe of Greenlining. It acts much like an Ioun Stone, and grants you a +2 bonus to your Dex and 5 Acid Resist. **(See below for further details...)
As well, you've been granted the ability "I'm not dead yet!". Once per adventure, if you would be dealt a ludicrous amount of damage that you don't even have to subtract from your current HP because you -know- it'd straight-up kill you, instead reduce yourself to 0 HP and gain the staggered condition as per normal rules. DM ruling on what's "ludicrous" or not.

Reffelref - You've looted the Rondure of Redtember. It acts much like an Ioun Stone, and grants you a +2 bonus to your Str and 5 Fire Resist. **(See below for further details...)
As well, you've gained the ability "Outsanity". If you ever gain the "confused" condition, reduce it's duration by 1 round, to a minimum of 1 round. The confused round you remove is then applied onto the target of your choice. Also you have like, 20 spleens and other body parts, which don't do anything and are kinda gross. your raptor thinks they smell great though.

Derrel - You've looted the Bauble of Bluetaciousness. It acts much like an Ioun Stone, and grants you a +2 bonus to your Wis and 5 Cold Resist. **(See below for further details...)
As well, after spending some more time with the spaceship and it's controls, you've uncovered a new way to utilize it in combat from afar. You've gained a new ability "Call in the Airstrike!". Once per adventure, you can spend a standard action to radio in your spaceship to send in supporting fire. There are two strike options you can choose between, though they're somewhat.... unpredictable, as you've yet to master, or even become competent with, the technology.
Option 1 - "Laser-rend". Choose a target, then roll a d8. Starting from that target, and going in a 30 long, 10 wide path, deal 50 points of plasma damage to anyone hit by the rapid-firing beams including the target, Reflex 25 for half. Determining which direction the line goes beyond the first target depends on the d8 roll, so take care which target you choose.
Option 2 - "Photonic Torpedo". count how many people are in the current combat including yourself, plus one, and excluding those unconcious/dead (ie. out of the combat). Roll a die based on that number. The number you roll determines who gets hit by the Photonic Torpedo. Anyone hit by the torpedo is instantly vaporized and killed with no save. (this counts as a death effect, so if the target is immune, instead take 100 Plasma damage). In the case of rolling the bonus "Plus one" as the target, re-roll to hit two targets instead, ignoring further results for "Plus One". The torpedo acts more on the properties of tele-vaporization rather than explosions, so the target hit will be the -only- one effected by the bomb, even if they were underneath or within something else, living or not.

** Special sphere-related effects**
The spheres enhance your power, but build within you a sort of...need, for more. It may be something you can try to resist, but it will always be there, nagging at you in the back of your minds. For Evil characters the orb's power might remind you of a fresh kill or royally screwing someone over in the best of ways, while for a Good character it could bring back memories of home, or of mother's cooking, or perhaps the feeling you get when you save, like, ten orphans.

Trying to figure out why the orb causes these feelings will only lead you to yourself, to a magic or innate power that feels justified, as if the orb -knows- what's right and what's wrong, and wants to help you bring out your best, as the orb works primarily off of your own mind and aura. There's nothing in it's essence to disagree with. If anyone else disagrees with you, they -clearly- just don't know the orb like you do. But see, the orb can't help you properly on it's own....

Depending on your alignment or personality, you may rationalize or come to the final conclusion the same way, but it will inevitably always be the same conclusion, that you must kill those who own the other spheres and add to your own power by taking the spheres they owned, for the greater good, greater evil, or just for the hell of it. Again, there's no compulsion -forcing- you to act in any way, but...damn...it's like someone's flaunting a freshly-baked muffin in your face -all- the time, and it smells -really- damn good.

Good or Evil, Lawful or Neutral, you'll find a reason to want those other orbs and obtain their powers yourself. Seeing someone else with an orb, using it's powers, will seem like an utter affront to you. For opposed alignments, it'd be like an angel watching a demon use a holy relic for a urinal cake, and even for similar alignments the feeling isn't much better. It's impossible to give up or be convinced to give up your own orb willingly to another, for obvious reasons (namely "Why the hell would I?" or "What, and let -them- misuse this powerful magical device?"), and for whatever reason you think death is the only justified, reasonable (or unreasonable if you like that) way to ensure you gain another orb's powers; Theft or trickery simply -won't- do it. Act as you will despite this, but keep in mind that that is one tasty, -tasty- looking muffin of power there...and I mean really... it's not like -those- wingnuts know how to use them like -you- do, right?

Assuming you do pull this off, you would, as expected, obtain their orb, along with that orb's powers. Tally-ho~!