[pnpgm] Game Update #17 - File #202 - Kiet talks to dragon
John Stowman
johnstowman at gmail.com
Wed Jun 24 19:17:43 CEST 2009
Will is impressed "GOOD distraction"
On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 10:10 PM, Scott Adams <longshot at darktech.org> wrote:
>
> HT Alias/Player Character Name Type Status/Notes Sex
> -- -----------------------------------------------------------------
> R1.John Haight...........Arawn.............Druid .Normal/Alfar Ma
> ??.Chris Wells...........Ben'dar...........Warrior.Normal/Human Ma
> R4.Tom Corckett..........Caladan...........Wizard Normal/Human Ma
> W2.Marcel Liberty........Chion.............Sailor..Normal/Human Ma
> W3.Ryan Torres...........Farseeker.........Warrior.Normal/Human Ma
> --.Tobie Bonahoom........Fremea............Sidh....Normal/Faerry Fe
> R2.Mark Murtha...........Kell..............Trader..Normal/Human..Ma
> Do.David Sanders.........Kiet.Sunan........Acrobat Normal/Human Ma
> R4.J H Hooten............Raban.Usherwood...Bard....Normal/Human..Ma
> W2.Robert Maxwell........Strie'bog.........Bard....Normal/Human..Ma
> R1 NPC...................Shu.Yeoh..........Wizard..Normal/Human..Fe
> W4.Wout Broere...........Unali.............Ninja...Normal/Human Fe
> Do John.Stowman..........Will..............Hunter..Normal/Human..Ma
> R4.Alex Koponen..........Z'leyra...........Healer..Normal/Human Fe
> R1 NPC...................Zhou Kiwat........Noble...Normal/Human..Ma
> Animals: Corona [Eagle] Z'leyra, Tef'wo (Horse) Ben'dar, 2 Donkeys
>
> Cover Story Info:
> Caladan aka Ca Lu as Guard/Archer
> Farseeker aka Fu Sa as Guard
> Fremea as Noble child [Disguised]
> Kell aka Swan as Trader
> Unali as Zhou's wife
>
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> Game Update #17 in sequence (file #202)
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>
> Admin Notes: None.
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> [Recap]
>
> From Kiet: [Re: Dragon Miracle]
> If it works...awesome...if not, then I can at least console
> myself with the thought that I saved a donkey's life....
> GM: Ack. :) Good plan though.
>
> -----------------------------------------------------------------
> [New Stuff]
>
> [Apris 15th, 1634TH]
> [Location: High Elder's Citadel, after meeting with High Elder]
>
> Z'leyra buys from the market cheap damaged weapons for practice
> of skills on board the ship. Including two great swords, two
> hand axes and two war staves.
>
> Soon after the meeting, Z'leyra hears Raban making an open
> offer for folks to scan him for magic. "Okay if I cast some
> basic detection spells?"
>
> Raban nods and Z'leyra begins the process. She first eners
> her shamanic trance with her drum. Then casts a detection
> spell with her staff. While in the trance she reports the
> same things that Arawn and Fremea previously reported. Soon
> she casts another spell. It takes almost 30 seconds for her to
> watch Raban. At one point she looks away and Raban notices
> a slight blush on her face.
>
> Z'leyra later welcomes both Shu Yeoh and Zhou Kiwat to the
> group.
>
>
> ----------------------
>
>
> [Apris 17th, 1634TH]
> [Location: Eastern Shadow Domain, Port for ship]
>
> Z'leyra thanks thanks those like Kiet that repay her advance
> of funds for ship fees.
>
> Z'leyra also mentions to Arawn that she does know Time Powers,
> but not sure when she will have time to teach them. Also, that the
> Time Travel spell requires FAR more care than most spells in
> deciding if and how to cast.
>
> ----------------------
>
>
> [Apris 19th, 1634TH]
> [Location: Eastern Ocean, Sailing to Katai]
>
> Z'leyra shares her complete Foyson biscuit material during
> the trip for anyone who wishes to eat it. It is plenty of
> food for 20 days for a normal man. Arawn and Fremea has seen
> these type of things in the Sidh Hill back at the Vassa forest.
>
>
> ----------------------
>
>
> [Ma 3rd, 1634TH]
> [Location: Eastern Ocean, Heading S/SE, 490 miles south of DL]
> [Weather: Patchy Clouds, Temperatures 70-80s as highs.]
> [Wind: Low speed]
>
> [Time: 1:43:30 pm] to [Time: 1:43:45 pm]
>
> In the next 15 seconds, Kiet flies fast toward the dragon
> going at 20 feet per second and the dragon about same give or
> take a foot. Meanwhile the dragon in the rear continues to
> lose ground as the ship's new speed, thanks to Chion, continues
> to widen the distance between each.
>
> At best the rear dragon is a good 2,300 feet behind the ship
> and the one in the forward is around 850 feet. When Kiet left
> the ship it was actually closer at around 700 feet. But the
> Captain and first mate saw their chance to act. They changed
> course yet again to widen their own distance from that dragon.
> They had seen the dragon clearly changed course for its free
> food coming to it. So another 150 feet was made away from the
> two.
>
> As Kiet nears the dragon more detail is seen. Those looking
> on deck with spyglasses like Unali, Fremea or sailors will see
> the same detail. The black wet skin is full of thick plate
> scales that look like it should be land based than water based.
> There is a lighter black color to the dragon's under neck and under
> belly that is only seen briefly at times. Kiet sees their wings
> like
> their cousins that fly are gone and replaced by large fins like that
> of the whale. But these jut out the side about 8 or so feet and
> could probably bat most people in the water easily. A long sleek
> tail, almost leftover from their cousins, trails behind. Kiet isn't
> clear if it is used for navigation, as a weapon or a useless limb
> at this point. It seems to wag and move in random directions. Kiet
> figures it must be the easiest part to cut off in a fight if one
> dared to get that close.
>
> The dark black as coal tapered body is slick and long at about
> 24 feet. It is hard to tell how tall it is or how much it might
> weigh since most of it is in the water. In the water deep it
> must be a nightmare to track in dark water. No gills are seen but
> Kiet figures they surface for air when needed but the stories tell
> they do not breath fire. Land dragons are said to breath fire
> due to sacs of mysterious things and air that allows them to do
> this.
> While others believe they eat certain materials that work like flint
> and steel to mix the flames. If these are left over from their
> land cousins it must be the sacs here allow them to breath long
> periods of time in the water making them able to drag their prey,
> in this case Kiet, down deep. Kiet plans to stay well out of reach.
>
> Kiet figures it could be as heavy as most dragons but shorter
> since water grows length more than height. He figures it to be
> 5-6 feet at the shoulder. The shoulder to neck is another 3 feet
> making it possible to lean over most ships to do their havoc work.
> So it probably stands 7-8 feet by his guess.
>
> The dragon's ears are drawn back prepared for battle or a
> quick snack before it takes more snacks on the ship. The jaw
> is as huge Fremea is. Fremea could probably be swallowed whole
> with little effort. A man due to his length might take two
> bites. Raban likely three, the lucky guy might be able to
> get a swing out of it before fully eaten - the lucky guy Kiet
> thinks to himself.
>
> The teeth make the frightened shark's teeth look like
> human baby teeth. They are long 3-4 inches in some places and
> large canine like fangs are almost twice that. They look
> sharp as any sword and as numerous as a hundred daggers in one
> mouth. Kiet notices his nostrils flare with anger and loathing.
> Then Kiet notices the eyes as large as a Giant's eyes but
> about twice the size of a human eye. They gleam in the sun
> shining down from almost straight up at Kiet's back down into
> the Dragon's eyes. Kiet realizes this gives him a slight
> advantage as he is coming from the brighter side of this fight.
> But the ship would have no such advantage as the sun would not
> be a factor. Kiet stares at the eyes full of anger as well
> showing more emotion, and Kiet fears yet respects, intelligence.
> Kiet swears he sees some faint red in the creature's eyes but
> it could be the sun or his own eyes playing tricks.
>
> Kiet quickly says as he flies near a prayer for success.
> It is one thing to act brave in front of the others but this thing
> is a dangerous foe even for someone like Raban or Farseeker
> or Ben'dar to handle in personal combat. One word spoken wrong
> could mean disaster. This dragon will have its jaws and teeth
> as its main weapon and no magic - Kiet hopes the stories are true
> on that regard. The fins will be useless unless someone gets
> in the water.
>
> After 15 seconds of flight Kiet gets within just 40 feet of
> the dragon. With him going fast and the dragon coming to meet
> him it is a quick 700 or so feet jump. Kiet does one more glance
> to his right to spot the ship and doesn't see it. Curious he
> almost loses concentration and tilts a bit. Where is the ship?
> Then he glances left and scans the water. There it is but it
> has well passed him and the dragon. If it continues on he realizes
> he might not be able to catch up with it. Kiet forgo to plan for
> that part. Even if he talks for a minute or two. How far would
> that be? It looks about 900 feet away now from Kiet. It could
> be well over 1000 feet away. He realizes he could be left behind
> unless someone realizes he is left behind and the ship circles or
> comes to get him. Would the captain risk his ship to come back
> for him even if the talk goes well? Kiet frowns and realizes
> no. He would not risk it, heck Kiet would not with all the people
> on board and the high risk.
>
> Kiet will have to resolve that later or swim really long to
> Katai. He will have to figure out possible magic to resolve
> this new problem later. He turns back to face the dragon now
> only 40 feet away.
>
> --------------
>
> [Time: 1:43:45 pm] to [Time: 1:44:22 pm]
>
> As Kiet finishes the distance he begins to speak in Lemasan
> loud enough for the dragon to hear him. He speaks fast and with
> great dignity, yet clear tension is heard in his voice. It
> takes almost 40 seconds to complete his speech. As he gets
> to the Dragon he circles it at a height of 15 feet up and
> in a 10 foot diameter. He has to circle around the Dragon in
> a dizzying pace to maintain the spell going.
>
> At the closest approach the Dragon roars and Kiet can feel
> the hot and quite rank odor of the Dragon's mouth. Kiet feels
> bile form in his stomach but maintains his stance and speech
> hoping he isn't turning green as he speaks. The roar itself
> shakes Kiet to the very base of his skull and backbone. As
> if his entire body repels it and wants to flee on its own.
>
> The dragon stops moving and floats in the water watching
> the crazed meat source fly about him like some seagull. If
> only he came a bit closer! He growls and flaps his fins in
> frustration and water splashes in every direction. Kiet
> realizes if he gets a lucky jump he might reach him but if
> he goes higher his speech might show some doubt for the dragon.
>
> At this distance no one can hear what Kiet says or offers.
> Simply the distance involved, the language and the winds
> blowing are too distracting. Those on board wonders first why
> this crazed acrobat is even out there offering something for
> the Dragon. Second they wonder if he has some love for the
> Chaos mages and wonders if he has some leaning toward that
> alignment as well? Maybe a closer look at this person who seemed
> to "join" the group by luck just weeks ago. Was that fate
> or something else? Third they wonder what the offer is and
> if it will be a loss to them.
>
> Chion looks back with Caladan. Now both can see the dragon
> that was in the front now behind the ship to the west. It
> is clear the ship has over passed it. They look at each other
> and see Kiet. They heard something about his plan but with the
> wind didn't get all the words. Now the fool is out there flying
> around it. One takes out a flying creature on the flying island
> and now he thinks himself a dragon killer! chion shakes his
> head and moves back to the other dragon. Now it is little over
> 2,000 feet away. By now the first chunks of meat has reached
> his general area and it's clear to Chion the magically
> created meat seems to be distracting it. But some of the meat
> is gone likely have sunken a bit. If only he could've done
> feathers they might've floated more.
>
> Those at the forward part of the ship with bows move now
> to the west starboard side. They watch as Kiet seems to have
> started his strange talk with the Dragon. Then they realize
> Kiet is being left behind and hope he can teleport back.
>
> All those on board know their bows are almost 3 times out
> of normal range. They lower them and wait for Kiet's sign.
> Kell considers a few actions but then realizes it could foul
> up Kiet's plan. Ben'dar did warn to give the man a chance.
> Will in the rear considers his own plans but realizes quickly
> the one in the rear is too far to even catch up if the ship
> went at half speed. He gives up and heads toward the others
> and prepares his bow. Like the others he will fire if things
> go bad. Arawn had considered coming out with him flying along
> with Kiet to the dragon. But it was clear Kiet did not want help.
> Of course more distractions to the dragon might ruin some of Kiet's
> own plans. Arawn prepares new actions in his mind in case things
> go bad as well.
>
> Fremea lowers her spyglass and wonders why did Kiet display
> his arms to the dragon?
>
>
> --------------
>
> [Time: 1:44:22 pm] to [Time: 1:44:30 pm]
>
> Kiet finishes his speech and waits for the results. But
> he realizes his flight spell duration might be over soon
> and recasts it. As he starts the magical words he realizes
> if he fails he is surely dead. He might have two bites,
> some 2 or 3 seconds to curse himself. This was another
> thing he didn't think of before he flew off. Failure would
> be bad here.
>
> On board ship Arawn casts a quiet spell and watches
> with a careful eye to his own inner eye. He sighs and fears
> the result.
>
> Kiet looks down as he circles the dragon and waits for his
> answer. When the Dragon glances at the fleeing ship and back
> at Kiet it quickly roars again. Kiet groans and realizes
> that the dragon is not nodding his agreement. Kiet glances
> back at the ship. He realizes the ship is now almost 1,300
> feet away. His slow flight might not catch up in time unless
> the ship circled back.
>
> Chion smiles as he notices the original rear dragon gobble
> up the first chunk of meat that has reached it.
>
> Zhou is finally dragged on deck from below. All the while
> protesting and eating a roll in his mouth. As the sailor
> closes the hatch to the stairs, Kell pulls Zhou to the side.
> Zhou protests and spits chunks of bread at Kell as he claims
> he should remain below to protect it. Then Kell raises a finger
> to silence him and points to the water. Zhou for the first time
> sees the dragon. Zhou's face goes pale and half the chunk of
> bread falls to the deck as he chokes on the other half as it
> goes down his throat quickly. In that same instant he twirls
> around and heads back to the stairs. But Kell reaches out to
> grab his shoulder to stop him. Kell frowns this is the party's
> fearless leader in Katai?
>
> Unali and Fremea see Kiet's face go pale or is that a bit
> of green too? He glances back at the ship and frowns.
> The captain also with his own spyglass watches as Kiet shakes
> his head.
>
> "It didn't work!" The Captain shouts.
>
> Arawn nods having seen it in the future Kiet being chased
> by a angry dragon.
>
>
> --------------
>
> [Time: 1:44:30 pm]
>
> Actions? Comments?
>
> Next Update...Friday...maybe
>
> GM: Dragon A [Was the original Rear one] is now 2,100 feet
> behind the ship.
> Dragon B [One near Kiet] is now 1,270 feet away from
> ship but only 10-15 feet away from Kiet. Kiet
> is also the same distance away 1,270 (plus or
> minus the circle 10-15 feet he is making).
> The ship has actually moved past both dragons now. Going
> back to the clock perspective. Ship is facing 4 o'clock
> or south-east. Dragon A is 11 o'clock (north-west of
> the rear of the ship). Dragon B is more 10 o'clock or
> west-north-west a bit. I was going to do a map but
> at these distance it is hard for a hex map. Would be
> well over 1200 hexes.
> I.....A.....I Original Rear Dragon
> I.......... I
> I...B.......I Original Forward/Kiet
> I...........I Ship
> I.......S...I
> That is a rough sketch. No scale for it though.
>
> GM: Posted actions -
>
> Arawn - Bow ready.
> Ben'dar - Bow ready.
> Fremea - Bow ready. Multiarrow Max EL, Medium-Long Range
> Will - Bow ready.
> Chion - Bow ready.
> Raban - Bow ready. Prepare ELmax Multi-arrow, Fire @ 300'
> Strie'bog- Bow ready. Fire at long range.
> Unali - Sling ready.
> Z'leyra - Sling ready. at 50' Sh Invisibility EL2
> Kell - Tulwar/Shield/Spear ready.
> If talk go bad summon Cloud elemental
>
> GM: Sorry Kiet. Great plan. I took into account all the
> factors. Actor, rhetoric and such. Sadly after all
> the modifiers it was only a 12% chance of going off
> in this case. Things that might've changed that might
> have been a blessing for eloquence or some other magic
> spell. But it WAS a good plan. I like the role playing
> aspect of it.
>
> GM: It has been 7 minutes since the dragons were first seen
> or soon. In that time the rear one has yet to catch
> up at any good distance and likely will not. The
> one in front was distracted enough by Kiet now that
> unless the ship circles back it may not catch up (good
> chance). So by the very fact of the ship's speed there
> likely will not be any combat at all unless something
> changes like someone orders the ship to circle back or
> circle in place for Kiet to catch up. The captain looks
> like he has no plans to risk the ship going back. Unless
> someone orders it and even then it would have to be
> a good reason for him to do so.
>
> GM: Primary concern. How does Kiet get back to the ship?
> All other actions may be an aside. For example what Kell
> had planned might still work and do some damage if he wanted
> to as it would drift back away from the ship. Other actions
> like bow obviously is too far away to do anything. If Kiet
> can return to the ship safely then the chance of combat
> will go down to nothing. The ship can simply out run both
> dragons at the increased speed due to Chion's extra spell,
> the distance and the magic talisman If Kiet hadn't gone
> out to distract the dragon away there clearly would have
> been some melee combat by now. So in one aspect Kiet's
> plan worked to get the dragon away from the ship. Both
> dragons are now behind the ship. I have saved actions
> from Arawn, Kell and Will among those posted above in the
> posted actions section. I will keep those in mind. Will
> likely do Kell and Arawn's since those If...then conditions
> have been met (talk failures). If you want to modify those
> actions let me know or cancel them.
>
> GM: For mechanics - Ship is going MR 27, Dragons 24-25 depending
> on currents. Some like Fremea can actually fly faster than
> that.
>
> GM: Sorry for not coming out earlier with this. Weekend was
> a weekend with little computer time. Home A/C (central
> heat) died. So with florida going Fri/Sat of temps of
> 100 degrees (heat index of 112) it was 94 degrees at night
> in the house. So it was no time to sit at a home computer
> and work! It was down only saturday and fixed on sunday
> afternoon (some battery at the outside unit died of all
> things - go figure!). Its normal now. Then last night
> had a thunderstorm so couldn't work with the heavy
> lightning. So it comes out 2 days later. Oh well.
> Depending on actions and time I may do a update Friday
> if not will do one Monday.
>
> GM: Will inform Z'leyra of Raban's scan privately for her to
> email or post public here if Raban wants that. Old actions
> that were in the IBT for Z'leyra rather than posted then
> so including now as i work on it.
>
>
>
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