[pnpgm] Game Update #240 - File #1469 - Talks fall...err..fail
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HT Aliaver/Player Character Name Type Status/Notes Sex
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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
R1.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
W4.Wout Broere...........Unali.............Ninja...Normal/Human Fe
R1 John.Stowman..........Will..............Hunter..Normal/Human..Ma
R4.Alex Koponen..........Z'leyra...........Healer..Normal/Human Fe
R1 NPC...................Zhou Kiwat........Noble...Normal/Human..Ma
NPC...................Captain.Lin.......Warrior.Normal/Human..Ma
Animals: Corona [Eagle] Z'leyra, Tef'wo (Horse) Ben'dar,
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Game Update #241 in sequence (file #1469)
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[Recap]
From Z'leyra: [Re: Actions]
Z'leyra, pondering the thought that the gods might be trying
to 'clue her in' decides that a slight delay in attempting to
destroy the portal may be wise. Instead she casts Sending EL0
to attempt to contact the Brain and try to convince it to throw
off the yoke of Vong servitude and help in defeating them. If
needed she will follow up the Sending with a Communicate spell
in order to speak the same language.
GM: Ack.
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[New Stuff]
[Augado 10th, 1634TH]
[Location: Middle Katai Plains]
[ Mountains west of Pamau]
[Time: 2:59:07pm - Turn 4: Phase 2]
Will turns back to the brain and decides his original plan
should be investigated just as a backup. Once Z'leyra goes
to destroy the portal he'll need to distract her from the Brain.
She builds magical energy for the limited spells he can do.
Fremea sees the first second of the Vong being trapped and
raises her bow to fire again at the Vong. As the six arrows
shoot from her bow the 6 impact on the event horizon of the
Kotothi portal with a sheen of white as six of the magical
arrows disintegrate. The true arrow penetrates and flies
through the portal. But Fremea blinks her eye from the flash
of light and notices the Vong are gone. In a literal blink
of an eye the Vong are out of the sight. The arrow is seen
faintly on the ground on a femur bone of some human. it
seems the Vong are trapped somewhere in the Kotothi realms
of the upper world. She knows the time dilation in the upper
world is at times 1 middle world days to 40 upper world days.
But it does depend on realm and the god. In the same of the
few seconds she watches the portal the Vong scattered and
moved on. In that time it might be 5-10 minutes have passed?
Will casts his spell so he can levitate through the barrier
and see if he doesn't die. Will's mass-less body slowly lifts
up like a ghost. If he could gulp he would draw in a breath
and hope for the best. There is so sudden threat of mental
energy as he penetrates the invisible barrier. Will leivates
a bit further into the mass of brain and goo. Who would have
though he would be a brain healer. He isn't the smartest in
the group but he is the one treating the brain! He has seen
brains before in the woods on slaughtered animals. Even in
battle when fighters take massive head wounds. But never in
this graphic detail. he can't help but to lower himself into
the mass of nerves and reddish flesh. He could stand from
the bottom of the brain and his head would not penetrate the
top. He could out stretch his arms and spin around in a sphere
but never reach the sides. But to Will's untrained mind there
is no central "kill here" spot. It all seems to be the same
watermelon like material.
Another barrel lifts off the ground in the north east corner of
the cave and goes flying toward Z'leyra. It slams into her left side
and shoulders splashing water and wood again all over her. This time
though the damage is protected by her armor.
Z'leyra decides that things can't get much worse in the situation.
She can still get to the portal but realizes that the group may
be right in some ways. She decides to change her plan to contact
the brain like Alfar tried. OF course she would never admit that
the druid might be right. His ego is big enough. But in order
to make contact she has to touch the brain. This gives her
something to consider as she has to get close through the barrier or
just take a hold of those slimy tentacles even if it is just for a
few seconds. She moves forward into a storm of tentacles that extend
out through the barrier. She grabs one with both hands. Now she
only has to cast the spell. Z'leyra tells the small group of those
she contacted she has made contact with the brain.
Raban turns around to head back to the group. It seems they are
climbing the stairs and must've killed the Brain. But Raban is still
worried as he can't spot the tiny one. Raban is the first to feel
the tingle of the Battle Mind ebb away as the spell ends.
Unali realizes the Battle Mind spell is over. At the same time
Z'leyra tells her she is shaking hands with the Brain. She
growls at no one wondering if the Battle Mind spell might have
warned them that was a bad idea. She hesitates and wonders if
she should rush down to physically stop Z'leyra. But she knows
it would take a few seconds and the Healer might be dead by then.
She has to talk to Lin first.
Farseeker and Ben'dar haul Chion up the stairs more and Ben'dar
begins to breath a bit harder from the strain.
Arawn has no clue what Will and Z'leyra are exactly planning.
But the last thing he knows from the Battle Mind spell is that
both may be on a gray trail full of bloaters.
Kell ensures Kiet is behind him as the acrobat needs some
protection and climbs the stairs.
Lin reaches the next level and finds the next cave entrance.
He climbs back down and waits for the others.
The living earth seems to make good pace with the party going up.
Caladan reaches Lin and looks him closely. "Explain what is
going on please.
Kiet realizes that something is missing. As he considers this
he is fuming wondering why isn't the so called high and might
Elder isn't here doing clean up. Then he realizes that Chion
has something to contact him. Kiet tries to recall what it was.
That necklace thing? No. It was his staff. Then Kiet realizes
that the staff wasn't on Chion's back sling holster. Kiet looks
around the stairs but sees it no where. Kiet then realizes he
must've lost it in the battle when he was knocked out. "Kell...
Hold up. We're missing something." Kiet turns around not even
waiting for his friend and heads back to where Chion was found.
That staff needs to be there somewhere. It's time for Kiet to
make his displeasure known to Ki'ama. He runs down the first flight
of steps and runs toward the brain cave entrance. He skids to a
halt and looks around. He realizes even the elemental is missing
and he is the only one here. Great this makes him a sitting duck
for the brain. But he isn't a threat so maybe he'll just be
a very acrobatic tumbling duck. He glances over and notices
a group of 10 tentacles seem to moving fiercely around the left
side of the brain for some reason. He also notices a lump of
wood at that area that was probably a barrel? but he sees no
one there. Maybe the brain is just thirsty. Good maybe that
will distract him from attacking him. Kiet glances around the
area and to his left he notices a pound of sand. Peering a bit
more closer he sees a piece of white sticking out one side and
realizes it looks like a piece of wood. But the top hilt seems
to be distinctive and soon realizes it is the Gnarish Staff. It
is buried in a bit of sand from the earthquake. This likely explains
how Kell and Unali missed it in passing. That or they just didn't
care to stop to get it.
The Brain does a quick SitRep in less than a eight of a second.
From his genetic history of other ancestor Brains he knows that
some long dead Commandos on some planet used talk like SitRep
for a situation report. It seems only timely to use the same
language in battle if this is a battle. To his mind this is
still a one sided encounter. His brain can see the past and
future in one seamless thread. Some would consider it
probabilities rather than the future. But if one runs the
calculations right there is certainty. The Brain determines
the 3 big events around him. There is that small human in the
entrance who is just standing there. But the Brain can easily
penetrate his thoughts and realize he is no threat. Something
about a missing item. Some item could not be a threat. So the
brain ignores the human. But the two closer ones seem to have
a higher threshold of harm. The one that is sensed but not
sensed to be there through the absence of electromagnetism seems
to move into him. The brain is baffled briefly by his mental
shield not working but then realizes there no matter to block.
The Brain can't seem to pinpoint the thoughts of the one-without=
mass. It takes concentration almost a full quarter of a second
for the Brain to reflect from the afterthoughts that from the
human's brain. But this isn't enough him to consider the odds
of a threat. Then the one that actually grabs his tentacles.
Intrigues he could easily strangle the human. From the field
of energy the Brain can determine this is the one that just cut
off a couple of his tentacles moments ago. Why this human
would now do this is a bit confusing. He could easily kill the
human in a single thought but finds the threat to be less than
42%. Fascinating the brain waits for an eternity to find out
what the one plans. The Brain can't read her mind so this seems
a bit hard to pinpoint.
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[Time: 2:59:10pm - Turn 4: Phase 3]
Z'leyra is amazed she isn't dead yet. But it is better not
to tempt fate. She builds up energy to make contact with the
Brain itself.
The poltergeist figures the human is well protected. So decides
to do a more active role. It extends it's ethereal tendrils to
grasp the Gnarish staff on the ground some 30 feet away. It
flings the debris and staff toward the Shaman read to bash the
back of the skull. But as the staff twirls toward the Healer
like some insane brute flashing a whip, a cloud of energy shoots
from the Brain and slams into the staff in mid air. The energy
flings the staff backward and to the ground deflecting it to the
ground some 32 feet away toward the entrance.
Z'leyra casts her Sending spell and as she does she realizes
the Brian does have a high resistance. Maybe the Brain will
consider this helpful? Maybe if she lowered her mental shield
she could convey this peace to it. But as she casts the spell
she realizes it can't be worse then flying barrels. But
the second she finishes a buzzing sound is heard. Looking
around she notices a swarm of 15-20 flying stinging insects
swarm around her in a 2 foot radius. The bugs dive in and
out stinging her doing 15 points of damage. she then realizes
the spell must've failed very badly again.
At that instant the 3 milliseconds after the female utters
those strange words the Brain realizes a magic spell was cast
upon him. The odds were it was a direct assault of some kind.
Not able to perceive the thoughts of the human the Brain quickly
determines to act. It is still intrigued but the sudden appearance
of these bugs confuse it further. Tired of these games the Brain
collects in the span of 4 tents of a second energy to act on. It
then floods the area around the invisible human with this energy.
Mot wishing to kill her just yet he is tired of the human like
a fly is to a human. The Brain uses his mental strength to push
the invisible human outward and away from the Brain. Quickly
pushing and draining strength the human is locked in a electro-
magnetic field that surrounds the human not allowing her to even
flex her fingers. The tight field is seen faintly as a gray
cloud but seem sot be all around her. With a great shove the
Brain pushes the Shaman toward the cave entrance. The Brain
pushes the human past the other human and toward the stairs.
Quickly gaining speed the field pushes the human toward the
edge of the steps and with a final shove pushes her over the
side of the railing. As Z'leyra fails she realizes she still
can't control her body as the field holds her in place. She
quickly surmises that things have indeed gotten worse. Not only
things are hitting her but a swarm of insects that look nasty are
swarming around her. If that doesn't kill her then the lack of
movement on impact on the ground might. But at least that's
something to worry about for another few seconds as its a good 300
feet down. At least the lava that is on the ground now is
not below but
more to center of the ground. She might break all her
bones but at leas
she won't burn up. That is a good thing. All this to
shake hands with
a Brain! If she lives in the next minute maybe she can
deck Arawn for
trying to talk to it and giving her the idea. Now if only the field
would collapse and she could simply levitate and balance.
Fremea turns around knowing the Vong are days in the past or is
that the future or is that now? Time stuff confuses her. She'll
ask Arawn which it might be. She notices Raban flying back toward
the stairs. the other flyer seems to be gone. Fremea heads back
toward the stairs as well to catch up. She begins to hum to herself
some odd song she heard in a bar.
Raban flies back toward the stairs not even aware that the
invisible silent Z'leyra is falling to the ground. The Giant
flexes his iron hand and wonders if he could take down another
one of himself if he was a double.
Unali gets to the level where Lin is finally. She glances up to
see the entrance of a cave one flight of stairs up. She looks
to Lin for an explanation.
Farseeker and Ben'dar haul the limp magician up to the same level
as the others waiting for instruction and a break from the task.
Kell turns around and sees Kiet dart away. Forgot something?
The trader realizes that the acrobat is not one for running head
first into a battle site. Kell grips his spears and runs as fast
as he can to catch up. He will have to protect or help Kiet.
Kell gives a mental command to the elemental slow and actually
descend a bit. If they need to they will need to get the rock
to act as a shield.
Lin raises a hand and flexes as if to grab air, "It can be
controlled."
Caladan asks the obvious question. "How?"
Back inside the brain cave Kiet is a bit dazed by the scene.
First the Gnarish staff is buried. Then it suddenly lurches
up and out toward the Brain. Then at the last instant it was
deflected and thrown back his way. Is the brain that bored enough
to play a game of rock bat? Some stupid kid game the kids on
the island play with tree limbs and rocks. Trying to hit
the rock toward others. But the thing did land even closer
now to him. Could the Brain want him to get it? Kiet looks
back but doesn't see Kell but decides he needs to get the staff.
Kell will catch up he is sure. Running the 30 feet he kneels
and grabs the staff in his hand. At least in this position if
he is hit by a energy wave he'll not fall much. Now what to
do with the staff? He seems to recall the sailor-wizard held
it and concentrated. Looked a bit either constipated or worried
as he closed his eyes. Did he speak or just think the words?
Did it act on him or he act on it?
Will notices Kiet now in the cave holding some staff. He is
unsure what the one who does that smoke magic is doing. Maybe
he will flame the Brain. Oh great. If the spell ends and he
is lit up in a blaze he'll kill the acrobat. Will considers
his options. He knows firing a spelled arrow outside the
field will become solid. Could he drop some object to kill
the brain? What could he do that large? His boots? His sword?
Then he picks up a sudden burst of panic through the sending
spell with Z'leyra. It seems she is falling toward the ground.
The Brain's nerves ring with a new heat that pulses with what
humans term exhaustion. Tossing that woman out the cave took
a bit more than he planned. Under him the water trough is getting
low and he needs a supply of water. Lucky Nom Amor gave details
on the three big spells that could harm him. In the flash that
was contact - a full 1,000th of a second he knew what the girl
had plans or was going to do. Destroy the portal. That could
not be allowed. He may need Vong reinforcements. He should
have killed her there. But he needs to know the details of
her allies and their plans. If he can break her mental shield
further away from that physical contact he could gain that
intelligence. But that will require the helmet to be off
her head. It was a rash move he knows. He should've just
bashed her head up against the ceiling. But the humans
seem to call it a flight or flee reaction. Maybe he'll
bring her back and just bash her helmet off. Then the
Brain realizes the other human in the cave. His mind is
open and reeking in thoughts. He doesn't need her anymore.
The brain begins to concentrate on the human but in his
weakened state it may take a bit of time. Maybe he should
force the human to get him some water first.
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[Time: 2:59:10pm - Turn 4: Phase 4 - Current/Next phase]
Actions? Comments?
Next Update....Friday?
GM: A short update. That was a bit of fun as well. Raban
could save Z'leyra but can't see her. Right now with
the field she can't move. I had originally planned to
do Will but he changed his plans so this Ace in the hole
was changed to Z'leyra. :) Sorry. Will would've been
a rock falling. Still will do 2 phases only until things
resolve. Lin's info will trickle at 6 seconds each. Mana
report not updated yet. Will do later. Its mainly
the new spells cast. I'll give info on where all the
folks are position wise at the bottom of the update. Anyone
spot my tribute to Indy jones? :)
GM: Kiet - Want to use the words you posted in your email
or something else? :) For a change your not the center
of the action. Will find that email again.
Will - Let me know of any new actions.
Z'leyra - There is a big reason for the failures. But
now you are the falling star. Sorry a Diablo reference
and I've playing it too much.
GM: Spells active
Will - Armor Transmutation, Mind Shield, Invisibility
Insubstantialability*
Raban - Bless (OCV), Fist of Battle
Farseeker - Bless (OCV), Fist of Battle*
Unali - Mind Shield, Sending
Arawn - Bless (OCV)
Fremea - Mind Shield, Sending, Multi-Arrow
Z'leyra - Mind Shield, Sending, Invisibility, Levitate
* = Soon to end (next update?]. I may NOT post this
info unless I remember to do so. :)
GM: Maps
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Mount Side View -
Scale - 1 Column = 15 feet
1 Row = 50 feet North=wall facing screen
[Looking from one wall to the other wall. Toward North
wall with back to south wall. Looking east/west.]
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I### Fake Vong ceiling ###IA
I# #IB
I# #IC
I# #ID
I# #IE
I# #IFCave
Cave 1-> `# #`G<-#4
I# #IH
Cave 2-> `# Party -> #`I<-#5
I# Fremea->T Position-> #IJ
Cave 3-> `# R #`K<-#6
I# Cave #6 World Brain -----/#IL
I# #IM
I# @ <-Portal (Kotohi) #IN
Mount I#T T#IO
Ground --?I#]A_A_A_A_A_A_A_A____......._______V__V__V__V__V[#IP
I Y<X \ IQ
I Z Lava (. points) IR
I = Rock wall, #=Vong ladder structure
` = Entrance to cave [open mostly]
_ = Rock floor (Row P) ground floor
A = Vong Bowl Home (10' high)
V = Vong flyer
T = Vong Tower (30' high)
],[=Base of Vong tower (wooden)
X = Rabbit Hole opening 30' wide below cavern to tunnels
Y = Tunnel of Treasure/Sentry cave (under ground floor)
Z = Pit/Lake caves below elevation of Treasure cave tunnel
1-6= Side caves on east/west walls
* World Brain cave
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%% \__/ \__/ \__/ \__/ ***_/%%\__/ F
,,,\__/ \__/ \__/ \__/ \_ ** \%%/ \__ G
]]]/ \__/ \__/ \__/ \__/ *\__/%%\__/ H
```\__/ \__/ \__/ \__/ \__* \%%/ \__ I
%%/ \__/ K__/ \__/ @@@ / /__/%%\__/ J
%%\__/ \__/ \__/ @@W@@ / \%%/ \__ K
%%/ \__/ \__/ \__/@@@@@ / \__/%%\__/ L
%%\__/ \__/ \__/ \_@@@ / / \%%/ \__ M
%%/ \__/ \__/ \ / / \__/%%\__/ N
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%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%/ A %% = Rock Wall
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%\%%%%%\__ B
%% %%/ \__ C
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%% **** %%/ \__ E
%% *** %%\__/ F
,,, * %%/ \__ G
]]] * %%\__/ H
``` * %%/ \__ I
%% K @@@ %%\__/ J
%% @@@@@* / %%/ \__ K
%% .@@W@@ / %%\__/ L
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Portal - Center is L29 going diagonal bottom left to top right.
30' wide and 30' high shimmering portal
World Brain = @@ 25' by 20' wide. Tentacles are 15' long
* = Wooden Barrels
],'= Stairs ledge to stairs
As always if map messed up see website.
Map Legend
Party is off map to west on the stairs. on side map would be K50
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Exact positions -
Arawn - I60 [Side Map] 10' below Cave entrance #5 - Stairs
Ben'dar - I60 [Side Map] 10' below Cave entrance #5 - Stairs
Caladan - I60 [Side Map] 10' below Cave entrance #5 - Stairs
Chion - I60 [Side Map] 10' below Cave entrance #5 - Stairs
Farseeker- I60 [Side Map] 10' below Cave entrance #5 - Stairs
Fremea - J27 [Side Map] - 355' away from Stairs
Kell - K50 [Side Map] 10' from level ground to cave #6-30' to cave
Kiet - J12 [Brain map] facing east [Cave #6 side map]
Raban - K34 [Side map] - 240' feet from stairs
Unali - I60 [Side Map] 10' below Cave entrance #5 - Stairs
Lin - I60 [Side Map] 10' below Cave entrance #5 - Stairs
Will - K24 [Brain cave] Inside brain / Insub
Z'leyra - K49 [Side map] Not shown - about 10 feet from stairs falling
About 300' from ground.
Keep in mind the scales for both maps.
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