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Steven stretches and grabs a cigarette and puts it in his mouth, his hand being a little twitchy from not having smoked most of the day.

"I don't know about you, Rusty, but I need a bit of a break from all this reading"

He makes a grunting noise as he tries to stand, his legs still trying to give way from the day prior. He picks up his hat and wipes the dust it picked up from dusting all of those tomes.

"If you need me, I'll be right outside the building."

Steven heads outside for a cigarette break, hat low and collar up so people don't recognize him easily

Quote from: miauw62 on January 16, 2017, 12:17:46 pm

Quote from: highmax28 on January 15, 2017, 09:41:20 pm

Vampire dies screaming as he falls off the balcony

JOJOOOOOOOOOOOOO

Personally, I got suspicious with "the boss, who's in this room with his coffin, breaks out and attacks the party, who throws a bunch of daggers in a cone at them".

I already said a few posts earlier this campaign was based on the first arc of Jojo.

And yes, I took the knives thing from part 3, but its too cool to pass up

Party camped out for the night and I rolled for an ambush on a d100

Got a 100, and I thought of the worst possible thing to ambush them..

... So I sent the final boss after them, knowing full well he won't die here and the party had some cronies to deal with before him.

I didn't use all of his abilities but it got nasty. Knew he would be ok as a final boss when I used al of his attacks.

Well, the party gets to the dungeon and I FORGOT ABOUT THEIR FLYING SLEIGH and they end up skipping the entire dungeon, and upon seeing enemies, it was then I realized I messed up as DM.

CR14 encounter with lots of environmental stuff to help. Wizard and cleric cast fireball using scrolls they prepared on the trip. They find the treasure room first and get some gear to ready for the boss.

I knew if I didn't send the party in there without some problems, it would go exactly the same as before...

... So I had them set off a fireball trap, which almost kills half of the party and the boss, who's in this room with his coffin, breaks out and attacks the party, who throws a bunch of daggers in a cone at them, and drops a party member to unconscious.

He then moves to a party member who teleported away and knocks him out because low HP and every attack hit.

Cleric goes on overtime and heals everyone and does so every round when someone goes down.

I made a mistake by having him take double damage from one of the party member due to an item that they had on them. That party member was a monk and they pretty much dropped him by at least 50hp per turn MINIMUM.

He drops his greatest power and the party has two more droppers and he goes invisible. The cleric does her job again and the boss is revealed by the wizard who casts faerie fire and they proceed to kick the snot out of him.

Party goes down save the cleric and the monk as he punches them all unconcious and tries to flee. Monk gives chase and throws his only weapon to kill the guy AND CRITS. Vampire dies screaming as he falls off the balcony and the party goes over the edge to see and are greeted with every enemy plus about several hundred or more  they left behind inside the castle (because they skipped it) and watched as they leapt off a 10mile high castle on a mountain and try to escape, landing on bodies of their own and fleeing.

So because the party skipped dealing with the apparent breakout of vampires, now they have an epidemic of vampires plaguing the world now.

"Alright, Rusty, what else am I looking for?"

The gunslinger instinctively tries to light a cigarette before stopping, remembering where he is.

Quote from: apiks on January 06, 2017, 08:27:28 am

Seeing that his chance to further look around the library is diminishing with every success, Etoile at the end finally gets a rather simple idea that he meekly provides.

"W-w-we could split up. I-I'll look around the library here, y-yo-yo-you can find Mr. Quink."

At this point the old youth was catatonically frozen in beef red as his ulterior motives surface.

"I can say finding people is not one of my specialties.

You seem to know this area better than me, and Rusty here doesn't remember much. I'm sure if you don't know where or even who this man is, I'm sure you can find someone who can help us get those answers."

((Pssst. This is to Etoile))

So my party pulled the stupidest shit tonight.

The mystic told a giant boss to jump off a cliff into a river, and he missed the river. The height of the cliff caused the damage to be 97 damage total.

THEN. The most ridiculous thing ever happened.

The party had to traverse an area without mounts, which wouldn't do for the party wizard. So she says:

"Why don't I just attach the carriage to my nightmare?"

My first mistake was letting the wizard be able to tame it with an animal handling check (which she crit because she asked if she could, and a DM never says no).

My second one was underestimating the creativity of the girl I'm dating and her friend.

The cleric whips out a flying carpet and says "We can have him work with this!" And it ended up with the party taking off the wheels and the canopy of the carriage, making it much lighter, essentially making it a sled.

So they jury rig with a lot of rope and over things, a carriage stretched to a flying carpet, with both being pulled by a nightmare.

Being the dead of winter in world, I made a joke saying:

Barely even a month after the winter solstice, over the elvish woods, people saw a man driving a flying sleigh being pulled by some strange horse-like creature that led them through the cold with its reddish glow. Something was also being pulled as well, but some say it was four people huddled, others say it was a bag of goodies.

And that, my friends, is the beginning of the story of how Santa Claus was born

My party warlock said "so we're essentially acting as Santa while hunting an undead menace known as vampirism...

I forgot to mention, the party skipped not only like 2/3 encounters and a big encounter I had planned for them, but they also managed to skip the dungeon I had planned for them leading to the big bad because they can fly to the top of the tower where the boss's coffin is

I can hear soldier's brain deflating from boredom.

TIME FOR MORE ASSES TO KICK!