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Session 18

I was available for the first hour of the session, and only through text since I was in the airport and no, I’m not about to RP Tony Stark in an airport lounge. I’m not that shameless. Everyone else was present.

So notes are a little sparse for this session, but I’ve got highlights and session notes to pull info from!

So without further ado...

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There were a few more text RPs between sessions, leading with Gabriel spending the night at Balthazar’s ( @the-grey-hunt) and Rhodey ( @rebaobsessions) winding up at his door in the morning like...a puppy? (He’s the opposite of a puppy, but is very cuddly.)

Following some very good conversations, Balthazar joins Tony and Rhodey on the route back to the inn to see them off to their S.H.I.E.L.D.-assigned quest.

Balthazar finally meets the party under non-stressful situations.

DJ (doxblogsstuff): Hi, Rhodey. Hi, Tony. Hi, random stranger.

Balthazar: We've already met.

Zira ( @heliocentricgeometric): Why are you here.

DJ is apparently masterfully restraining the urge to call Balthazar “Uncle Balthazar.”

Balthazar joins us for breakfast.

DM: Balthazar accepts coffee. 

Tony: Since when do you drink coffee?

Balthazar isn’t the only one to partake in caffeine.

Lynn ( @lynnnnnnnnnnmnnnnnnnnnnnnnmnnnn [again what the fuck]): [Bob] is going to take a cup of coffee, and probably chug it, and burn himself in the process but also keep chugging.

Formal introductions are made, since Balthazar was in too much distress last time to remember anyone’s names. Also Zira was Zee at the time.

Rhodey: Balthazar, this is Zira. Also sometimes Zee and Ezra, depending.

Balthazar, skeptically: Okay.

The cats make a reappearance, doubtlessly crawling all over Bob and Luna.

Balthazar: Why do you have cats?

Luna ( @imagine1117) and Bob at the same time: Why not?

Breakfast is eventually over, and Balthazar takes his leave of us.

Rhodey: It was great to get to know you a bit better this morning. 

Balthazar: It generally is with me.

(The CONFIDENCE)

Balthazar has opinions on Gabriel’s friends.

Balthazar to Gabriel: You have weird friends.

Gabriel really doesn’t have anything to say on that in his friends’ defense.

Luna has another particular comment to make on Balthazar, who is shorter than Gabriel regardless of what he would like to tell you.

Luna to Bob, re: Balthazar: He's shorter than I was expecting.

Bob: I'll tell you next time if he's a giant or not-a-giant.

We wind up on the road, and Zira is...unusually and shiftily quiet. She seems guilty about something. Rhodey rolls insight.

reba: I beat ZIRA on insight??? What is this?

(Zira has passive 18 insight.)

Rhodey goes to ask Zira what’s up and if everything’s okay.

Zira: There's no need to worry. 

Gabriel, under his breath: There's definitely a need to worry.

Rhodey: Is there something you'd like to tell us?

Zira: I'd like to not tell anyone. Ever. Forever.

Zira: What's there not to be worried about? There's always the chance that you'll hate me for something I do, and you'll leave me alone to die.

Absolutely no one is convinced.

reba: Rhodey is giving Zira...I don't know how to describe it except as a patented mom face.

Helio: On reflex, Zira makes a face back.

DJ: I'm gonna tell mom about this! Not Rhodey-mom. My mom. OUR mom!

Zira reluctantly tells the party that she’s joined S.H.I.E.L.D. without letting anyone know and is expecting punishment for it now. 

Zira: We're a unit, and I did something without the unit, so I should be punished right now.

Tony does actually say something at this point, something about how Zira can make her own decisions and it’s her choice, etc. Rhodey is also supportive because they did know what Zira was going to do since she wanted to join.

We end up in the town we need to be in! And Zira wants to put the ring of disguise on so she’s not so blatantly an aasimar.

DM: Natasha definitely took back her ring. Well, I say took it back; it's more like the next time you went to use it, you didn't have it any more.

Suggestions are bandied about with what to do about the book! We were told we can buy it, but not for more than 700 gold pieces. Stealing was suggested as an option - an option Tony did not and does not approve of.

Luna: We split into two groups. One group goes in disguise so we can frame them, the other group steals the book.

Bob & Luna: S t e a l.

Rhodey, Tony, & Zira: :/

DJ: Steal.

Tony: >:|

Rhodey is thankfully very much also against stealing.

DM: Her title is the Lawbearer and her symbol is scales on an axe, and the axe is there to remind you of what happens if you don’t obey the scales.

Around this time I did need to leave, so we’re down to highlights, and I have zero context for any of these quotes, sorry.

Alatar shows her usual tendency to over-prepare in some cases and under-prepare in others (ala accents).

DM: I didn't do this ahead of time, which I'm now realizing was a mistake.

Luna says a thing?

imagine: (clears throat)

Lynn: Hear ye, hear ye.

The Vesper Timberlands are brought up, largely because the person holding the book is interested in them and wants information on it.

DJ: How much do you know about [the Vesper Timberlands]?

Luna: A lot.

The party is apparently discussing ways of getting the book by trading knowledge.

Zira: Does xe want to hear about murder?

reba: This party and knowledge, I swear. 

DM: And yet so many secrets.

They eventually decide on Luna giving Zimmer information on the Timberlands. The entire group goes.

Zimmer: Some chairs have been put out for...the 3 of you that were expected.

imagine: Luna glances at Rhodey. He looks responsible. Rhodey seems like a normal person. Is this normal?

Luna begins her tale of the Timberlands? Which I missed.

Luna: There's also the Old City, which is an...old...city.

(And the New City, which is new! There’s also the Ancient City, which is as old as balls.)

The info given is enough for Zimmer to hand the book over, so...mission accomplished!

DJ to Zira: Well, you didn't get to talk about murder after all.

The party is curious about why S.H.I.E.L.D. is so interested in the book. They try investigating. (At this point I am no longer in an airport and can listen in but not participate.)

Rhodey: Now, you smart people, do your thing.

Reba: And Rhodey continues sharpening his axe.

The book is difficult to parse out, largely because there’s a spell on it. Zira is observant enough that she notices it. There’s a brief argument where Bob really, really wants to rip the front cover off, but most of us disagree. So we wait until the next morning to take the spell off. In the meantime, Tony and DJ have read through it because it’s entirely written in Celestial and taken notes (and continue to take notes on the way back) on the contents.

It’s a book entirely on warlocks and their pacts. There’s also information on a web of dreams that can protect people’s dreams.

By the next morning, Dispel Magic reveals that there’s something hidden in the cover! Zira insists on prying the cover open herself.

Helio, after rolling: Fuck. Wait, no, I have a great modifier, so not fuck.

There’s an actual web of dreams in the book itself! We head back to Ankh and to S.H.I.E.L.D.

DM: Do you hand over the book and the web?

Everyone: (resounding silence)

Rhodey: I certainly hope so!

S.H.I.E.L.D. is very pleased with us.

DM: You each get 320 gold pieces.

Everyone: (various noises of disbelief and amazement)

And that’s a wrap for Session 18! Which saw the party do an entire side quest in one session. Alas, I missed most of it but I think this is still a pretty concise summary.

More shenanigans next time!

#d&d campaign #rebaobsessions #heliocentricgeometric #the-grey-hunt #doxblogsstuff #thechaoticwave #still not tagging lynn #imagine1117

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Session 14

Last session we left off right at Theodore Coulson’s introduction! This session picks up immediately afterwards!

The entire party is present!

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We’re inside the house, and we’re figuring out where to sit as Clint and Natasha have gone off with Theodora to speak to her.

@thechaoticwave: Can I perch on the beams?

DM ( @the-grey-hunt:) No, there's not enough space for someone your size.

inu: Be a bat!

thechaoticwave: Can I be a bat?

Bob proceeds to fail his throw with a Nat 1 and lands on the floor.

DJ (doxblogsstuff) and Zira ( @heliocentricgeometric) are concerned about a possible concussion.

DJ: How many fingers am I holding up?

Bob: 43.

Zira strongly suspects a concussion.

Bob: I'll live.

Zira: You have a concussion.

Bob: I have zero concussions.

Bob holds up a zero with his hand to indicate this.

Zira: That's something someone with a concussion would say.

Someone comes into the room with snacks and honey in bowls.

Helio: Zira is a heathen who would absolutely eat straight honey. 

There is a very pretty tapestry in the room Tony’s looking at. It’s written in Elven.

DM: Do you speak Elven? 

inu: Nope. 

Dox: DJ does! 

DM: Good for you. You didn't make the check.

The tapestry is nice and Tony has no idea what’s written on it. 

Theodora Coulson comes in later, rather upset by the fact that there’s a cult in Neverwinter. She starts sending letters out, and is then even more upset by the fact that her son is going to be out past curfew and that’s dangerous.

Why is there a curfew? Because the jarl’s daughter was kidnapped way back when and a priest executed for the crime and others imprisoned. They’re still imprisoned. They’re all of the Temple of Erathis.

Sooo...we volunteer to go find the guy.

Tony: But what does he look like?

DM: Clint described him to you elaborately.

Tony: But what is the description 

DM: You have it.

(The description is super vague, guys.)

DM: This is a young man vaguely resembling Phil Coulson, who you haven't met yet.

We go out into Neverwinter in search of her son, eventually finding him trying to pin down a doctor.

The son: Who are you?

Zira: I don't really matter.

The son: That's an odd thing to say. I don't really believe you.

Zira: I'm a Doctor. Technically.

We convince the son we can help his friend. Rhodey ends up being able to do so with Lay on Hands and we then return to Theodora’s house to sleep.

Tony picks an uncomfortable sleeping position propped up against a wall with no cushions because certain people (DJ and Zira) stole them for a pillow fortress.

Tony: Well, I’m not seeing any cushions around...

Dox: DJ takes a cushion and throws it at Tony's head. Hard.

Thanks to a timely warning from JARVIS, Tony catches it easily.

There’s a brief moment where we’re teasing @rebaobsessions to please describe what exactly Rhodey is doing as he’s lying down by Tony. Is his head on Tony’s lap? What’s going on?? No, he’s just lying down right next to Tony, perpendicular to him, and his head is by Tony’s hip. He uses a bedroll for cushioning.

Tony doesn’t suggest anything here.

inu: Tony's leaning up against the wall. How comfortable is the wall, Alatar?

DM: ...It's a wall.

Tony wakes up in the middle of the night to find out the response to some of Theodora’s letters. The Horned Crown contact in Neverwinter has been captured, so that’s good. He goes back to sleep.

The next morning...

DJ: Name? 

DM: You sound like a bureaucrat. 

Bob/Zach: DJ? 

DJ: Your name? 

@imagine1117: DJ has paperwork to fill out

Clint and Natasha leave the next morning to head to the prison for more information.

thechaoticwave (about Clint & Natasha): Before they leave...

Everyone: gasps

thechaoticwave: I give Clint one bolt and one arrow.

They return later, but when they wish to go back to the prison it’s clear that we’re not really wanting to let them go by themselves since it was our intel that got them the contact (de Morea) in the first place.

Natasha is reluctant (but if she had issues about our interrogation techniques she could have stepped in any time).

Natasha gives Tony and Bob a very pointed look.

Zira persuades them otherwise with the threat/promise that we’ll do mischief.

DM: The idea of you unsupervised is somehow worse.

Someone: Imagine us just doing things with no one to stop us.

Someone: The last time we did that, someone ended with their forearm being cut off.

Once we’re at the prison, we’re informed we need to disarm ourselves. We’ve already left most of our weapons behind, so it just remains to take off what remains.

Clint: They’re not gonna let any weapons inside, so you might wanna leave some behind.

DM: He gives Rhodey a pointed look.

inu: Oh my god, he doesn’t know about the bag of holding.

JARVIS is also left downstairs because the guards don’t trust the look of him. We meet up with the guard captain and inform her about the scorpions. She’s surprised.

Zira: You're saying the roads haven't always been terrible and dangerous and murderous?

Natasha is first up to interrogate de Morea, pretending to be an accomplice of his. She works it marvelously, and he reveals they have more in the city and the abandoned temple of Erathis is a meeting point.

After some discussion, Tony is sent in as Cavlan while wearing the Ring of Disguise to trick de Morea into believing the jig is up and they have incriminating evidence on him and his involvement in the Horned Crown. Rhodey goes with him to pretend to be a guard.

It works. It...works a little too well. De Morea gets a surprise attack with Finger of Death and because our DM neglects to tell us what the damage type is, we spend a few minutes thinking Tony is dead until I look it up and realize that no, he’s just badly injured and unconscious.

Tony ends up revived by Rhodey, who evaded Feeblemind. JARVIS is still downstairs.

DM: You’ve gotten to one plot point of many; you’re not getting out of this that soon.

Zira sprints into the cell to join the fight!

DM: What does spiritual weapon look like? 

Helio: ...fuck.

Everyone else’s interference leads to de Morea plane shifting right out of the cell. He’s seen Zira.

DM: And he vanishes.

Helio: FUCK 

Dox: SHIT 

We don’t know what spell he used until Luna realizes.

DM: Luna, you know he cast plane shift.

imagine: Hold on; I'm looking up what that is.

Luna: Oh, fuck.

The guards are upset, but it’s clear we’re not to blame for what happened and we’re led to a different room. Tony is fully healed up by Bob and JARVIS is not budging from his side now that they’re reunited.

While we’re in this room and discussing what to do, Zira realizes the portrait on the wall is very familiar. Familiar enough that she realizes the kidnapped daughter is her friend from the Horned Crown.

Natasha asks her questions about the Horned Crown and Zira’s relation.

Zira: They needed more recruits, and I was there, and no one cared if the freak of the village went missing.

Everyone else is overwhelmed at the magnitude of the mess.

DJ: How are we gonna do this? 

Zira: Oh, you know, by getting murdered. For funsies

DJ: They laid Tony out in a single hit. 

Tony, underneath his breath: It wasn't a single hit. 

DM: Jarvis understands you.

After the revelation of the friend and more info from Zira, Natasha slips out with Clint. She returns some time later with a missing poster in her hand.

On the poster is...Zira’s birth name, and the revelation that her mother has been looking for her from the moment she was kidnapped.

Aaaand...that’s the end of the session!

#d&d campaign #heliocentricgeometric #the-grey-hunt #doxblogsstuff #thechaoticwave #rebaobsessions #imagine1117

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Session 17

I’m...a few sessions behind on recaps. (A lot of sessions.)

This is the one right after the reveal that Tony Stark is Gabriel. (Is his last name still Stark?? The party sure doesn’t know and no one’s asked him.) 

There’s still fallout from what happened, although a bit of it was dealt in text RPs on our Discord channel. (I know; they’re not updated on this blog either. I’m only one person. ;w;)

Anyway, without further ado...

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Our DM ( @the-grey-hunt​) starts us off with a lovely recap about the ghost we encountered and the immediate aftermath of Gabriel’s identity reveal:

DM: The fight was short-lived and they were beaten into the afterlife by the rest of the party.

DM: Gabriel tried to avoid the party, who promptly told him to fuck right off with that attitude.

There was a comment on Luna’s ( @imagine1117​) passive perception for some reason? (Oh, right, because Rhodey ( @rebaobsessions​) proposed to Gabriel. Meaning Gabriel is now sporting a ring.)

DM: Very quick, imagine. What's Luna's passive perception? 

Imagine: High.

Luna isn’t the only one with high passive perception. The only one who doesn’t have one is poor DJ (doxblogsstuff) with a solid 9.

Zira ( @heliocentricgeometric​): How was last night?

Rhodey: It went great.

Zira: Do you want to share with the group?

Rhodey: Uuuuuhhhh.

Rhodey immediately looks to Tony/Gabriel for help.

Zira already knew Rhodey wanted to propose, and now it’s out that he actually did propose.

DJ: Didn't you do that already? Well, Tony did...

Helio: Zira kicks him under the table.

DJ: Ow! Your feet are pointy! 

Zira: All feet are pointy. That's how they work.

Sibling shenanigans go back to asking Mom and Dad what’s next now.

Zira: You've both proposed...so what comes next?

Luna, very quietly: Kids.

DJ: They've already GOT kids.

(Tony breaks out into hives immediately because no.)

Bob ( @lynnnnnnnnnnmnnnnnnnnnnnnnmnnnn​ [what the FUCK, lynn]) comes down from upstairs with two very familiar cats!

Lynn: Bob comes downstairs...and following him are two cats.

DJ: YOU!

Others in real life: (immediate shrieking)

Bob: What’s crackalackalin’?

Clint and...Agent 13, I think, join the group for breakfast. Let them know that Fury would like an answer from them within the next day or so. And then they leave.

Lynn: And Bob starts rummaging around in his bag. You already know what’s coming...

Lynn: And Bob puts a bolt and an arrow on the table in front of Clint.

Rhodey gives Bob a small part of his Highsummer gift for the cats, which is a little wicker backpack-like thing for them to stay in. And Zira, after her conversation with Tony and Tony shoving her off onto Rhodey when it comes to gifts, immediately pounces on Rhodey.

Zira: So I think there's no point in hiding it from me.

Rhodey: You mean what i bought you for Highsummer? 

Zira: Yes.  

(No, it doesn’t work.)

DJ is very officially dressed this morning for breakfast; he’s also very nervous! He’s going to try and see about getting started on the next step of becoming a master Alchemist!

Zira: Are you experiencing pre-exam stress?

DJ is very much unconvincing in convincing everyone he isn’t nervous and he’s totally fine. He doesn’t know what’s expected of the exam, only it’s an exam?? Zira tries to help.

Zira: Whoever you're killing, at least they'll be farther away from you since you're mostly a ranged--

DJ: I'm not killing anyone, it's just a test!

Zira: If you fail this test, will they kill you?

DJ: No! 

Zira: Then I don't know what you're so worried about.

Zira, later: People say there won't be any murder, but it's usually a trick.

There’s a little more talk on S.H.I.E.L.D. and what members of the group want to do what. Zira is still for joining. Tony/Gabriel is still against but does say to Rhodey he should just make the best decision for himself.

Rhodey to Tony: The best decision is the decision where I get to stay with you.

DJ does go off to the Alchemists’ Guild! Not alone, as Zira goes with him. Tony was tempted to go but still too uncertain about how things stood to try.

And now Zira finds out what DJ’s first name is... (Tony already knows, courtesy of a text RP.)

DJ: Dudo Jamjar, sir.

Gnome: I see. Your reputation precedes you.

DJ is remarkably polite during this entire interaction and it ends on a pretty positive note.

In the meantime, Luna and Bob are hunting down an Aarakocra Tony met on his shopping trip and referred Bob to. imagine had to roll a dice.

imagine: (dice clatter) eh--

DM: What was it?

imagine: I dunno; it's gone.

They do find the Aarakocra!

Hengist (verbally): Hello, how can I help you?

Bob (telepathically): Hello!

Hengist: Oh, wow, that's new. Are you a friend of that one guy? The one who didn't know anything about Aarakocra? 

Bob: Yes. Aarakocra. That's what I am, an Aarakocra.

(Very convincing, Bob.)

Bob doesn’t really know what to ask or what information to look for. Hengist doesn’t really know what information to give either. They part ways only slightly satisfied.

Luna: Just - one more question. Do your friends ask you what your name is everyday? 

Hengist: What - no, it's just Hengist.

Luna: Cool. Just curious.

imagine: Luna leaves. Awkwardly.

Zira and DJ are still together and so have more of a conversation once they’re back at Summer’s Rest. There’s some really heartfelt stuff on what happened to DJ back when he was still at home. DJ revealed to Zira that he actually died when the library fell on him. It was a pretty massive explosion, guys. Bad.

So that’s why he’s all nervous about continuing to pursue his education, but he’s going to do it!!

And after a hug and comfort from Zira, DJ goes back to gushing over the exciting new developments in the party.

DJ: But, oh my god! Mom proposed to Dad!

Zira and DJ want to surprise tackle someone with affection after everything, since Zira noticed that Tony was making discreet efforts at distancing himself from the group.

DJ: I'm pretty sure if I tackle him I'd break a knee.

Zira: Then do it right, fool.

Also Zira in this conversation:

Zira: Then now's your chance to flip the script! See, wordplay. I can do it.

DJ’s still pondering the technicalities of what he wants to do.

Zira: The important thing is that it's a tackle hug. Two things in one.

They don’t see Tony first. They do see Rhodey. (Tony has been holed up in the room all day, doing...things.)

Rhodey: Uh, hi, DJ - Zira.

Zira: We're here to be nosy!

DJ: I really want to know what [Tony's] doing.

Rhodey: I mean, I would, too...

(Rhodey has been in the room all day with Tony, and yet has no idea what’s up.)

Zira and DJ are trying to sell Rhodey on a tackle hug.

Zira: This is doctor's orders, even though I am technically not a doctor.

It’s okay. Rhodey doesn’t need convincing.

Tony is eventually done with whatever he’s doing, and he and Rhodey head downstairs for dinner. The stairs...are a thing.

Dox: DJ's running towards Tony, but he trips.

DM: Yeah, Zira's falling, but Tony just sidesteps out of the way and she hits the floor instead.

(They rolled terribly on DEX compared to Tony, especially since JARVIS gave Tony an alert that it was happening.)

DJ glomps onto Tony’s legs, and Zira isn’t far behind him. Tony is just ???

Zira: Do not think I haven't noticed your efforts to distance yourself from this group. ...Fuck off with that shit. 

DJ: You cannot escape our affection, Dad!

There is definitely no escape. Rhodey is there, too, and he snags all of them into the hug. So it’s a giant group hug.

We ended the session after going to S.H.I.E.L.D. and telling Fury that we’re not particularly interested in being lackeys of S.H.I.E.L.D. (or at least that’s what Tony said) but they could be consultants. Fury gave the party a mission to see how they liked working for/with S.H.I.E.L.D., which is to retrieve a book from a town several days from Ankh.

Zira hung back and said she did want to be an agent, so Fury officially pulled her in. She’s the only member of the party to actually become an Avenger and is assigned Agent 13 ala Sharon Carter as her handler. Carter is also the one to give us the mission and we’re told to get it through basically any means necessary because it’s really important and S.H.I.E.L.D. needs it.

And that’s the wrap for Session 17! Next session I was only there for part of it so notes are going to be a little slim.

#d&d campaign #the-grey-hunt #heliocentricgeometric #doxblogsstuff #imagine1117 #rebaobsessions #thechaoticwave #no lynn #i'm not tagging your name

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Session 16

This is our most recent session! Our DM ( @the-grey-hunt) titled it “Oh Boy Guys” in her session notes after we were done, which goes to show just what...uh...happened.

A lot. An...unexpected amount. Including something our DM didn’t expect to happen for another three plot points but I don’t know what she was expecting with that curve ball she threw at us. (Her status on Discord is now back to RECALCULATING.)

Anyway, our entire party was present but for @imagine1117, which was a bit...unfortunate.

So what happened anyway?

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It’s still raining outside, and we’re no longer in S.H.I.E.L.D.’s headquarters and have never been in Ankh before but really do need somewhere to stay.

@heliocentricgeometric: I'm thinking about what this anxious weirdo would do.

Tony just asks a random gnome where an inn is that they can stay at, and they’re directed to a nice boarding house that has 3 rooms we split between the six of us. Once we’re dried off, we reconvene in one room to discuss S.H.I.E.L.D.

Zira is adamant that she’s joining but no one else has to. Rhodey ( @rebaobsessions) is just as adamant that she’s not going to join it alone and DJ (doxblogsstuff) agrees.

But what about Tony? He’s not a fan of joining a shady organization, although he doesn’t specifically list his reasons for why. He does state he’s willing to ally with them as an independent contractor.

Tony: I'm not going off by myself.

Rhodey: Good.

DJ has doubts about this plan, since he doesn’t think Fury will agree to an independent contractor role.

DJ: Cranky Pants made it sound like it was a black-and-white choice. I don't know if he's been paying attention, but there's a lot of grey out there.

Tony: Shady organizations that think in black-and-white aren’t organizations I want to join.

Bob ( @thechaoticwave​) hasn’t agreed to joining either! He states he needs more information and just left with more questions after talking to Fury and getting some answers.

There’s a meta joke among us about the fact that Bob occasionally also has the name Tony and he and Tony can make a detective club. Zira suggests Tony become a detective and the joke spirals from there.

DM: Tony & Tony Private Detectives

thechaoticwave: Tony-squared.

Dox: T-squared. Their calling card is a t-square nailed to the door.

Back in game, Tony is stating his own decision shouldn’t affect anyone else’s, but Rhodey doesn’t want to leave him alone.

Rhodey: You’re not going anywhere without me by your side.

Tony: I’m not asking you for that.

Rhodey: You don’t get to ask or not ask me that— It’s already given, Tony. It’s already given.

(MY HEART, GUYS)

The conversation doesn’t really have a resolution since Bob still needs more info and Tony is resolutely not joining S.H.I.E.L.D. We wait for the rain to stop before heading down and do some errands.

DJ wants to visit the store his relatives have here since it’s an Artificing store. He invites Tony since it’ll be cool for Tony to check out. Tony agrees to come along but will have to leave for his own errands.

DJ asks the head of the inn where his relatives’ store is, actually using their name. He tries being stealthy but it’s not quiet enough to get past our groups’ passive perception.

There are...reactions among the players.

DJ last name reveal.

inu: wait WHAT WAS THAT

Everyone else: JAMJAR

There are Jar Jar Binks gifs going around in the lurking chat, and Tony in-game is going what very, very quietly.

In the meantime, Zira is interested in why DJ is wanting to go shopping and what is this about holidays?

Zira: We need to jump back. We need to jump way back. What holiday?

An explanation later that involves the practice of gift giving.

Zira: Does this mean I should be getting gifts for you? I don't even know what you like! I mean...explosions?

Some other folks are like...I don’t know if I can find a good gift since I’m terrible in real life. (coughrebacough)

inu (in lurking chat): Now I have an idea for DJ's gift.

Everyone else in voice chat: Oh no.

We do eventually find our way to JamJar Jar Jar Artificers.

The proprietors: Welcome to Jamjar Artificers ...Have I met you before?

DJ, their relative: I'm Junior.

Madi and Mani are the twin proprietors of a store that sells absolutely nothing made by actual artificers. Tony is familiar with almost everything in the store and is an actual artificer. The stores’ contents are also super expensive and we don’t have the funds because our DM hasn’t provided us with a ton of loot drops...

Zira: Being hunted for sport actually doesn't pay very well.

DJ: I could have used a little more gold and a little less near death experiences.

Madi and Mani would really like DJ to buy this cat figurine that has been in their store for absolutely ages. (Please guess which cats this figurine is modeled after. Please.) It’s still 75 gp but they’re willing to knock down the price!

After some more exploring, Tony eventually gives DJ everyone else’s money bags and leaves on his own errands.

He manages to find his way back down to the first floor, upon which he...senses a little something...a little something familiar.

It’s Balthazar.

Balthazar is here.

Balthazar is physically here.

He’s here and painting a mural on the wall!!

Tony has absolutely no idea what to do, but he’s too curious for his own good to just leave without acknowledging his brother in some way. It’s been two years since he’s last seen him in person!

Tony says something nice about Balthazar’s painting, getting his attention. Balthazar turns to him, presumably about to say something nice, 

There’s a moment, and then Balthazar sees the signet ring Tony has.

Balthazar: What’s that ring you're wearing?

Tony looks down at this ring he has always worn and never even considered.

Tony (to himself): Oh shit.

Balthazar tries some kind of spell but Tony aces the wisdom save.

Balthazar keeps asking where Tony got the ring from. Tony is absolutely truthful that it’s his ring and he stole it off a table and not any fingers. Balthazar is incredibly doubtful and suspicious of this because his brother would never let go of that ring and why does Tony have it

I want it to be known that everyone in the lurking chat is losing their minds over Balthazar being physically present and ALL OF THEM IN A STORE AND NOT PRESENT.

Bob ends up leaving because he’s uninterested in what the rest of the party is doing. Zira follows after him.

thechaoticwave rolls a Nat 20 on perception.

DM: Bob, you go up to the balcony, look down, and see this dude about to throw hands with Tony.

Bob flies down, and Zira is right on his heels to see what’s up and is like HEY, WHAT’S GOING ON. This gets everyone else’s attention, and soon they’re all trying to find their way down to the first floor.

Bob interjects himself smack in the middle before Balthazar can throw any punches. His presence is enough for Balthazar to back off a little, but he’s still insistent on the ring being his brother’s (Gabriel) and why does Tony have it?

Bob makes the offhand suggestion that maybe Tony’s his brother! :D

The rest of the group sprints to Tony’s defense, and Balthazar is now faced down by a 6′6″ tall aasimar with sharp teeth, Rhodey who has a ton of weapons, a bird, JARVIS, and a halfling. (Luna is off to parts unknown.)

Rhodey asks Tony if he knows what’s going on here. Tony just nods because anything else would be a lie, wouldn’t it?

Balthazar is now amenable to moving this conversation somewhere more private because Tony isn’t having this discussion here.

They go into a side alley. Balthazar reiterates that the only reason his brother wouldn’t have this ring would be if he was dead.

Tony: He’s not dead.

Balthazar: And how do you know that?!

Tony: Because...he’s me.

There’s...a stunned pause. Helio is accidentally ejected from voice chat while Bob is trying to give Zira a high-five.

And then Balthazar is instantly in denial because how???

Zira: Well, is he your brother then?

Balthazar: NO!

Balthazar is insistent he’d know if Tony was his brother. He’s spent enough time with his siblings to know them! And Tony doesn’t look like any of them!!

This means...is Tony under a disguise??

Helio: 465 is now in the front y’all!

reba: Oh, NO

465 is mad. She is so mad, guys. She demands to know what Tony’s real name is. If that’s even his actual face!!

Tony doesn’t answer, just says they need to go somewhere private if he’s going to do this. Balthazar leads them to his place because he doesn’t want to be led somewhere unfamiliar.

Tony takes off the amulet, and it’s Gabriel.

Helio: Can we pause for a second

DM: Yeah, let loose.

(three to four simultaneous meltdowns)

Balthazar is having emotions. Gabriel is having emotions. Everyone else in the party is just probably in varying stages of wtf-ery and 465 is apparently startled enough and Zira startled enough that Zee is back in the driver’s seat because 465 and Zira are now fighting.

Zee: Mr. Tony... Gabriel. Mr. Tony-Gabriel.

Balthazar eventually tells everyone to make themselves comfortable. He’s found solace in a chair himself.

thechaoticwave: Bob just flops down as soon as he says make yourself comfortable.

DM: Like, on your stomach?

thechaoticwave: Yeah.

Zee is super talkative and introducing herself and the Zira collective to Balthazar. DJ puts a hand over her mouth. He’s wearing the gauntlets of ogre strength and I think Zee licks it?

DM: It tastes like metal and dead people. The dead person is mostly on the inside.

Balthazar swears a little as Gabriel talks; he doesn’t like what he’s hearing.

Zee: That was a bad word. Also is your shirt broken?

Balthazar: No. I'm hot.

Zee: Why don't you take it off?

DJ: Zee, darling, Mr. Balthazar looks a little stressed out right now. Why don't we not critique his clothing choices right now?

Balthazar: If you’re going to call me Mister, use my last name Quill.

Gabriel keeps telling Balthazar about what happened back home. That he left because he if he hadn’t then he probably would have gotten himself killed. And he’s going after the ones who left to join the Horned Crown.

Balthazar looks like he doesn’t want to hear this and doesn’t know whether to believe this. He’s curled in on himself in the chair.

Gabriel eventually reaches out, but something he says upsets Balthazar and he withdraws. Gabriel doesn’t try again.

Gabriel tells Balthazar they’ll leave and are heading to their boarding house. Balthazar can find him there and bring Hannah if he wants.

Balthazar snidely asks if he’s going to skip town. Gabriel glances over to the group and Rhodey and DJ are very adamant on going LIKE HELL with their eyebrows.

Gabriel puts the amulet back on and leaves before anyone else does. Rhodey eventually follows after, leaving Zira, Bob, and DJ to follow.

Rhodey tries to touch Gabriel’s shoulder, but Gabriel actually flinches and puts space between them. Rhodey doesn’t try again.

They end up back in the boarding house. Rhodey and Gabriel are in the room they share. Rhodey lets him know he can take time to think and Rhodey’s here if Gabriel wants to talk. And that he still trusts him and loves him.

There isn’t a verbal response from Gabriel, but he does nod.

Rhodey rolls a Nat 1 on insight against Gabriel’s 19 (17?) for deception. It’s...uh...bad.

Rhodey leaves the room, closes the door, and starts crying against it because he thinks something really awful, guys.

I’m just going ahhhh in the voice chat because owwww

DM to inu: This is your bed that you made and you're going to lie in it.

Zee and DJ find Rhodey crying against the door. Zee is instantly jumping to comfort and gives Rhodey a hug.

reba: Helio, your characters are too perfect and you have three of them.

DJ shoves Rhodey aside while he’s hugging Zee. Zee and Rhodey head downstairs for some water while DJ goes to talk to Gabriel.

DJ: Oh my god, you are so fucking DUMB

Gabriel doesn’t respond to anything. DJ accidentally injures him on trying to pull his hands away from his face because he rolled a Nat 1 and so the gauntlets catch on Gabriel’s skin. He’s rubbing at the wounds angrily but still kindly and is telling Gabriel to go talk to Rhodey because he was crying.

Gabriel: You’re a good kid.

DJ: I’m an adult.

Gabriel: A good kid.

Gabriel goes downstairs, but Rhodey and Zee are sitting together and drinking some water. Zee has managed to cheer Rhodey up some, and Gabriel doesn’t want to bother them.

Zee catches sight of him and waves him over. Rhodey catches sight and raises a hand. Gabriel makes to go to a corner table and Rhodey droops.

Only DJ is there and keeps poking Gabriel in the back, but JARVIS headbutts him because that’s just rude and stop poking Gabriel! DJ hauls Gabriel off to Rhodey and Zee because he’s not leaving them to not talk about this!!

DJ: Zee, sweetheart, let's go over and talk to Neil and Luna, who is invisible. Because Rhodey and Tony need to have a conversation like two adults.

Gabriel sits down but has a chair of space between them. Neither of them speaks. 

inu: Two guys at a table sitting in awkward silence.

DM: Two bros sitting in a hot tub.

Rhodey gathers his thoughts and eventually tells Gabriel he’s still there for him.

Rhodey: I still trust you. I still love you

Gabriel: You don’t know me.

Rhodey: Are you going to say that, after all we've done? That it’s all a lie?

Gabriel: ...no.

Gabriel tells Rhodey it was a mask. Rhodey doesn’t like hearing this. He wants to know if everything about them was a lie. If anything was real.

Gabriel tells him a little about leaving and that none of this was intended. That he made attachments he never intended to make but he’s made them.

Gabriel: I don’t want to leave.

Rhodey: And I definitely don’t want you to go.

Gabriel: Then...I guess we can try.

(There is a part where Rhodey says he loves part of Gabriel already. Can’t he love the rest? my heart)

Rhodey reaches out a hand, and Gabriel gives it a look before grabbing hold of it. He’s holding it pretty tightly, and Rhodey’s squeezing back just as hard.

And that’s where we end the session!!!

see, so much happened

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Session 11

I am so out of date with these, guys. We finished Session 16 today! And...SO MUCH HAPPENED. Both in session and with text RPs. I’m going to sum it all up.

For Session 11, we picked up where we left off, in the middle of Wave Echo Cave. Our entire party was present!

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After defeating a room full of undead, DJ (doxblogsstuff) goes over to the shiny machine in the room.

Dox: And then DJ went toward the big shiny machine, because it's a big shiny machine

There’s a crevasse in the room where there was clearly water at some point.

Dox: Is it bone dry?

inu: Was that meant to be a pun?

Dox: No, but it is now.

We are going through the cave; Zira is anxious.

Zira ( @heliocentricgeometric): Everywhere is full of things that can kill us!

DJ wants to go explore.

DJ: But, Mooooom, it's cool.

Rhodey ( @rebaobsessions): It will still be cool if you give me a few minutes to make sure it's safe!

Zira: It's less cool if you're DEAD!

DJ and Zira stick their tongues out at each other.

One of the caverns has a large body of water! It’s a bit like the ocean, just in miniature. Some of us want to take a swim...

Bob ( @thechaoticwave): Can we go for a swim?

Tony: That is a bad idea. I have had a lot of bad ideas and that is a BAD IDEA. No one is going for a swim!

DM ( @the-grey-hunt): I would say...nothing, the DM isn't supposed to have opinions. Continue talking amongst yourselves.

DM: Oh my god, so many of you have never seen the ocean.

Luna goes into a room! There is..absolutely nothing in there but for a chest and bad juju.

Luna ( @imagine1117): Something bad happened in here.

Tony: Like what? Are there any bodies?

Zira: How on fire is it?

It turns out there’s a wraith in here! (At least I think it’s a wraith.) She’s mad we’re disturbing her.

DM: This is why you put Rhodey in front; he has all the armor and the charm.

The wraith is willing to let us go if we have something interesting to share or something nice to give her.

imagine: Luna has a bearskin for no reason, that I've been wanting to get rid of.

DM: I like the implication that at some point between backstory and now, Luna killed a bear.

Tony’s for giving the wraith interesting information.

Zira: We're not very interesting people.

Tony: We're not?

Zira (sadly): No...

Rhodey succeeds on selling the wraith a piece of malachite by telling her it’s shiny and can poison people when wet (courtesy of Tony giving him this info).

Rhodey: Thank you very much. (slams door)

There’s a spectator in a room! This would seem to be the room with the legendary forge, so we’re kind of left wondering what to do.

Tony to spectator: That's...a lovely smile you have?

Tony ends up taking the lead here and just bullshits stuff to the spectator, trying to figure out what’s going on in the cave and why the spectator is here.

Tony: Did any of the workers die?

Spectator: Some of the workers got injured and had to take a little time off, but died?

DM: By the way, the spectator's name is Brad.

We didn’t really get any worthwhile info from the spectator other than that it thinks the mine is still operating just fine and dandy and if we want more info we need to go further into the mine.

Rhodey wants to open a door.

Tony: you remember what happened the last time we opened a door .

(We made a spectator grumpy.)

There’s a room with some bugbears and drows! They’re across a very large crevasse and the room is huge, so melee fighters need to slide down to get anywhere close.

Dox: How close is Rhodey to Kurt Cobain? 

DM: None. None close.

DJ throws a bomb.

Rhodey and Luna team up to take down a bugbear.

imagine: I'm gonna stab the bugbear. (laughing) Oh, no. 7? 

DM: That misses. However, Rhodey is up next.

reba: I would like to hit the bugbear.

Next round starts...

DM: It's Luna's turn.

imagine: Stabby stabby part two (rolls Nat 1)

DM: You almost hit Rhodey but it bounces off his chainmail.

Rhodey makes to attack as well but misses. And yet Tony is there and his attack does hit. It’s also the kill, and he runs the bugbear straight through.

We investigate the area, and we discover the gauntlets of ogre strength! They’re currently on the skeleton of a dwarf.

DJ (with a shit eating grin): You know, those are dwarf sized, so they’d fit me a lot better than they’d fit any of you.

We’re discussing who can wear them.

Probably Tony:  DJ, you could use some help.

DJ (offended): HEY! It's true, but hey!

Zira: What if they're cursed? 

[pause, then multiple players start talking over each other]

There’s a pause and we establish no, they are not cursed. DJ attunes to them and we take a short rest.

imagine: Is there any nature here for me to commune with?

DM: There's the water.

imagine: ......That'll do.

After the short rest, the gauntlets shrank down to fit DJ’s hands!

DJ scoops Zira up with his brand new gauntlets of ogre strength and she knees him in the face.

At some point...

Zira: We're all gonna die?

I don’t recall what inspired this bit.

Zira: We could all die like that! We will die! Fuck! 

Rhodey (very quietly): Oh my gosh, Zira.

We probably did something stupid here.

Helio: We don't have very many brain cells, and we also have to share.

Our final boss...is a drow!

Drow turns around, starts talking in accent. The entire party descends into laughter.

He’s talking in Brian’s accent from The Adventure Zone. It’s that accent. It’s ridiculously over-the-top and the DM nails it.

Brian the Drow: You're dodging the question of how you got so far into the mine that no one knows about.

Zira: Murder. So much murder. And more murder.

Tony: And a lot of walking.

Zira: And walking. 

Daniel: And flying! 

Zira: You're the only one who does flying. 

Tony: Okay, walking, murder, and flying. All three.

Brian: Ah, you won't be needing to worry about walking any more, I assure you. You won't be walking anywhere soon.

There’s a fight! Brian attacks! And...his pet spiders?

DM: It's Magic Brian's turn. I have to call him 'Magic Brian' to distinguish him from all the other Brians.

DM:  I named them all Brian on purpose. All of the spiders are named 'Brian,' except for Gryan, who's holding Daniel.

[cue laughter from players]

The spider’s names?

Magic Brian and his giant spiders, spiders Bryan, Breighan, Brienne, and Gryan.

We’re still laughing over the spiders’ names.

DM: Zira, your turn.

Helio (faintly through laughter): Give me a second.

We thoroughly trounce Magic Brian and his pet spiders, which is where the session ends!

#d&d campaign #imagine1117 #heliocentricgeometric #rebaobsessions #doxblogsstuff #the-grey-hunt #thechaoticwave

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Session 15

Last session we left off right after Zira realized her mother has been looking for her since she was kidnapped by the Horned Crown. This one picks up immediately afterwards!

The entire party was once more present for drama and shenanigans, although @rebaobsessions was sick so Rhodey was mostly communicating through typing today.

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There was some more fallout after the revelation of Zira’s ( @heliocentricgeometric) mother and what it meant for her. She was unsure if she wanted to let her mother know that she was alive and relatively all right.

Zira: I am not the best daughter or the best agent or the best anything.

But multiple people did tell her that her mother would want to know and she is good, so Zira eventually gave the go-ahead.

Zira is super hard on herself and blaming herself for having been kidnapped.

Clint: Don’t be hard on yourself. Would you go back and tell your six-year-old self that?

Helio: DID HE SAY THAT IN CHARACTER? 

DM ( @the-grey-hunt): Yes, because I think it's funny.

We make the decision to check out the abandoned temple of Erathis, since we don’t feel comfortable leaving without investigating it. Before we do so, we go return to collect our weapons. Rhodey really wants his back.

Helio: Is he really Rhodey if he's not a walking armory?

Weapons collected and fully armed, we head to the temple with Clint and Natasha in stow for their supposed lock picking and trap detecting expertise. It’s broad daylight; there are crowds around.

Bob ( @thechaoticwave) rolls high on stealth but it’s the middle of the day and we’re attracting attention. Tony picks the lock on the door in the end with double proficiency because he has tool expertise. (You have no idea how many tool sets he has, guys.)

DM: Is this the same person who gave Tony his fine clothes? He went on a Weekend at Bernie's excursion and now he has 8 tool proficiencies?

In real life, we’re RPing hardcore and having debates and this all means that it’s taking us...

DM: It's been 20 minutes in real life since I told you you were standing in front of the unlocked door that leads to where you're going.

DM: You go inside. It is a room.

We’re all super suspicious and investigating for traps and perceiving danger. To be fair, Zira perceived something super suspicious and shady in a window with a high roll.

DM: 8 people have rolled perception checks. There are only 6 players.

I don’t know what Bob is supposed to be familiar with here but it’s apparently something in the temple.

thechaoticwave: How familiar would Bob be?

DM: None.

We very slowly creep through the temple. I mean, slowly in real life. It’s relatively fast in-game but in real life it’s taking a while. One of us takes the initiative to hurry us along.

Helio: We keep going. I'm sorry to anyone who wants to explore, but if we do, I think our DM will try to kill us!

Finally we end up in the last room of the temple. There’s an altar here, and as we enter the room JARVIS gives an alert. Torches magically light up and the room gets super cold.

We don’t realize what’s happening until we notice a ghost! It’s the tiefling priest who was executed for the kidnapping of the jarl’s daughter.

Veritas is rather adamant it wasn’t their fault and that things aren’t as they seem. They’re super pissed at us disturbing them, too, since they’re stuck in the temple. But they are familiar with the Horned Crown and what happened in the past.

Only...what do we want to do with the cult?

Zira: We're hunting them down. 

Veritas: You can't. 

Zira: I know. I can either die running away or I can die giving them the middle finger.

There are several charisma checks being made since Veritas is trying something funky. JARVIS is still freaking out about the ghost and does not like them.

Zira tries talking to Veritas some more, get them to tell us what’s going on and what happened back then. Veritas is saying they didn’t have a choice, that there was a woman involved who probably threatened them. But they’re not being specific and are complaining about injustice.

And then... Clint miserably fails his charisma save and is possessed! Zira gets shot by an arrow!

We roll initiative!

Helio: For one, I call the ghost a little bitch.

Bob is in dismay by what Clint did with an arrow.

Bob: Fuck damn it, Clint, this is not what I gave them to you for.

Zira doesn’t actually do anything with the arrow for the entirety of the fight. Also we kill the ghost double dead and we don’t know where ghosts go after dying a second time? Only Veritas is super dead now.

Lucky, Clint’s bird, tried to attack us on seeing us attack Clint. JARVIS did a good and pounced on him before he could attack Zira

In the end we’re all a bit upset and pissed at the ghost and everything in Neverwinter and agree to leave as quickly as possible.

We’re given some horses by Theodora Coulson and make it out quickly. While we’re camping, Zira has a conversation with her celestial guide on what she found out.

Zaphkiel is super wise and loving and sensitive to Zira’s doubts and fears.

Zaphkiel: Sometimes the hardest lessons are the ones we need the most.

Zira: Lady Laurelin is getting three kids for the price of one. 

Zaphkiel: That sounds like a good deal to me.

Zira also finds out Zaphkiel is her father. Her biological father.

There’s a fight in Zira’s mindscape on finding this out, during which the third alter - 6 y/o Zee - comes to the front! She’s out and about freely!

Zee: IT'S ZEE TIME. It's my body now!

She’s a bit peeved at how tall the body is and keeps falling over. DJ (doxblogsstuff) finds her like this and realizes this isn’t Zira or 465 but rather someone else he hasn’t met before. Zee is super cheerful and happy to meet him.

Zee: The only reason I'm out right now is because they're fighting and being stupid. Last time I was out I was way shorter, and now I'm all the way up here.

Zee continues being precious and sweet and pronouncing words very deliberately.

DJ gets the rest of the party’s attention and Zee is introduced to Tony! And also Rhodey but reba was absent for this bit until she popped on again a little later.

Zee: That's my sci-en-tif-ic con-clu-sion.

Bob gets the chance to ask Zee what her favorite color is!

Zee: My favorite color is actually ocean color.

Zee sits by the fire and eventually notices JARVIS by Tony.

Zee: Why is your cat shiny and big?

Tony: That's just how he is. 

Zee: Well, I'm big and shiny so I can't judge.

Zee mostly talks to DJ, at least until Zira manages to front again and is absolutely dismayed at what happened. But it’s all good!

We continue traveling to Ankh and are met by a thunderstorm. We make our way indoors to S.H.I.E.L.D., meeting first Agent 13 and then taking the boats through underground rivers before we finally, finally meet...Director Fury!

Tony: He doesn't look as furious as I thought he would. 

Fury: Try me on a bad day.

We’re given some basic information on S.H.I.E.L.D. and asked about our own interest in the Horned Crown and why we want to ally.

Zira: We would get smushed like itty bitty bugs.

Zira: We want to...how do I say this? Fuck the Horned Crown up so bad that they never look at another kid again.

One by one, each of us gives our answer as to whether or not we want to join. Zira is a yes. DJ is a yes. Rhodey is a yes. Luna ( @imagine1117) has questions about what Fury knows about them but is a yes as well. Tony...does not say yes. He doesn’t say no, but he doesn’t say yes. He’s for allying, but not for joining S.H.I.E.L.D. as a lackey.

Bob declines to answer in favor of getting more information.

Fury: If I can be frank.

Bob: I thought you were Fury.

We end the session here with Fury sending us back above ground to talk about this as a group before giving a final answer.

So much happens next session. To the point our DM titled the session notes “Oh Boy Guys.”

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Session 13

We are OUT of the cave, and we had a few text RPs in the interim. Some of them...changed things. A lot of things.

Namely that 465 is fronting more because she’s upset about certain choices Zira has made. And some things on Tony’s part but shhh

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We’re outside Wave Echo Cave, and we camped overnight. Things happened and in the meantime 465 is fronting and not Zira. We just discussed needing to have a conversation with Bob about what happened before when he blew up and cast a spell on Tony and Luna.

DM ( @the-grey-hunt): You guys can decide when to have that conversation (crickets) Wow, dead silence. Do you guys need to remember how to get into character?

@heliocentricgeometric: This is in character. Normally Zira would be filling up the silence, but I can't! I'm dying! 

We start walking back to Briarbane, during which 465 fronts most of the time.

465: I'm fine, we don't have to stop. 

DJ: That sounds fake, but okay.

We go to Thundertree as a detour because we have some unfinished business to wrap up there. It leads to camping because it’s a bit of a trek.

Rhodey ( @rebaobsessions): We went into the cave with an issue hanging over us.

Bob ( @thechaoticwave): And...?

Rhodey has a talk with Bob, establishes that Bob will let them know if something else comes up. Tony has a talk with Bob, advises him to maybe keep his mind guarded from unwanted intrusions at night if he can do that.

The next day...

Bob: By the way, today's flower crown is for Magic Brian.

There are...shenanigans the next morning? I think?

Helio: 465 is watching the proceedings with feigned disinterest, but it's like reality tv.

DJ realizes something funky is up with the person who looks like Zira.

DJ: What's going on, Zira? You haven't talked in two days. 

465: Zira isn't here. 

DJ (smiling): Oh, you're that one!

We continue traveling to Thundertree.

thechaoticwave: Bob attempts to initiate a staring contest with 465 when he notices her staring at him. 

DM: The two of you have been in a staring contest all day, and neither of you have been willing to give it up. Sometimes people get in the way of you, so you may have blinked once or twice but neither one has seen the other blink.

We find a large emerald necklace in Thundertree and DJ gives it to 465 because 465 has a share in the Wave Echo Cave!

DJ: Maybe we should let 465 have this, so she can practice being rich.

There’s a question of money and whether Luna ( @imagine1117) is familiar with it.

DM: Luna, roll to see if your people had a concept of money.

imagine: nat 20.

DJ says something insensitive to Zira or 465.

DJ: Am I being insensitive again? 

Helio: I  can't convey the face i'm making right now.

Tony: Just a bit.

We are back in Briarbane, and we’re able to inform certain parties (Clint) about our adventures! Tony and JARVIS have wandered off to do....things. This leaves the rest of the party to drop Magic Brian off. Natasha was briefly present but saw it was Magic Brian and then hauled him off for...something. That just left us with Clint.

Rhodey: We found the other brother. 

465: He was a corpse.

465: We committed a lot of murder, but there's still probably things left in there.

Clint: That's a way to put it. 

465: It's like cockroaches.

Clint is unimpressed with it being Magic Brian in charge of the Black Spider.

Clint: How to put this? 

DM: Where did I write this down?

We have other juicy details on Magic Brian.

465: Brian named all his spiders after himself. 

Clint: That sounds like Brian.

Clint: I thought for sure this Black Spider was some kind of cult, but if it's just Brian...

Clearly Brian has a reputation and it isn’t a positive one. Afterwards, Zira finally returns to fronting!

Zira about 465: She was pretty pissed, and I don't know if there were murders committed with my hands.

Tony is doing upgrades for JARVIS elsewhere in Briarbane. On the way to doing so he picked up some sweets for himself and the rest of the party. They find him doing things once they’re done with Magic Brian.

Zira: Hello, Tony! Did 465 try to murder you? Please be honest.

We have a nice time at the feast thing at Briarbane because it’s apparently a special occasion! We get fresh food! And afterwards Clint leads us to a shady location in a rundown mansion.

Zira: Are sure you're not going to murder us? 

Clint: I'm very sure. 

Zira: That's something a murderer would say, but sure.

Natasha is also there in the mansion! Apparently she and Clint have something they want to tell us.

Zira: Did you know all of his spiders were named Brian? 

Clint: Your...relative told me. 

Zira: You mean my head-mate? 

Clint: Sure.

Natasha and Clint offer to let us join the organization they’re part of. It’s possibly S.H.I.E.L.D.? They don’t tell us the name, but we’re all excited on a meta level! In-game, we’re a little more hesitant. Zira is tentatively for it, but what about 465?

DJ: I don't want the two of you (meaning Zira and 465) fighting. That's got to be awkward.

We don’t know anything about the organization. What if something goes wrong?

Zira: If this goes badly, we'll just do what we did last time.

DJ: Blow up the library?

465 comes out to give her opinion. Tony hands her a sweetbread since he got one for her as well.

465: I don't care about taste. 

Lee/Bob: eeeeeh (same hat noise)

465 does eat the sweetbread after Tony offers to try it so she can be reassured it’s not poisoned. And we tell Clint and Natasha we’re interested in going with them to Neverwinter and then Ankh to look into their organization and see about allying.

We’re digging into the Horned Crown at Neverwinter! So that’s our first stop, but it’ll take a while before we get there. We see Cavlan and Magic Brian off the next morning with the guard as they’re escorted to a bigger city with a better prison.

And we head off to Neverwinter!

About halfway through the trip, there’s an unexpected surprise as we run into some distant relatives of DJ’s! These are the Bracegirdles, and they have letters for DJ and a pie!

Zira gets to be introduced to them as his sister!

Sinead: What families have you been interacting with? 

Zira: It's a long story.

Tony tries getting embarrassing dirt on DJ from the family, like any strange nicknames. It doesn’t end up happening. He doesn’t tease any further.

DJ is told to visit some relatives in Ankh.

DJ: We were planning on visiting them (family in another city). 

Sinead: I could tell based on the way you sounded like you'd forgotten they existed.

As we get closer to Neverwinter, it’s more important for Zira to be disguised because of the cult’s presence in the city.

Zira: Natasha, can we borrow your Ring of Disguise?

Natasha raises a brow.

Zira: Because I don't want to be hunted and killed for sport.

We encounter a trio of scorpions outside Neverwinter! Our DM forgets about JARVIS and promises to make a post-it for next time.

We emerge victorious, if a little stung, and then we’re in Neverwinter! And are led to this house...

DM: May I introduce... Lady Theodora Coulson?

[squeals all around]

AND THE SESSION ENDS HERE

But we already did the next session so you can find out what kind of drama went down!!

#d&d campaign #imagine1117 #doxblogsstuff #rebaobsessions #heliocentricgeometric #thechaoticwave #the-grey-hunt

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Session 12

Our last session ended with us still in Wave Echo Cave, having just defeated Magic Brian and his spider entourage.

Our entire party is present, except for @imagine1117.

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We’re still in the cave aaaand...Bob/Daniel ( @thechaoticwave) decides to revive him so we can ask Magic Brian questions! (That worked out so well last time with Cavlan.) Daniel is speaking through text today as thechaoticwave lost their voice.

So while Bob does that, we explore the cave and figure out where our missing dwarf brother is, since, you know, we still need to find him. There’s a set of doors that’s locked.

doxblogsstuff: DJ kind of wants to break down the door with his new gauntlets.

DM ( @the-grey-hunt): DJ is wild with power.

dox rolls terribly badly.

Tony: Well, that was remarkably...underwhelming.

We find some keys on Brian and unlock the door.

DM: Why did I type that? I can speak!

We’re talking inventory for some reason?

DM: I trust you guys to keep track of your own stuff, but sometimes the disadvantage of that is, neither of us knows what you have.

We find Nundro, the missing dwarf brother! He’s badly beaten up so we heal him up a bit.

Party: We have bad news. Your other brother is dead.

Nundro: Oh no. This is a very important question: Did he still have his bedazzled belt?

Party: What?

The DM ret-conned a bedazzled belt on the dead dwarf we found earlier. None of us remembered seeing it.

We’re talking to Brian!

DM: After too many times misspelling 'Brian' as 'Brain': "His name is Brain now.

Daniel heals Brian.

Magic Brian being healed: øh, I âm sävéd.

We are being intimidating.

DM: Scaling scariness. There's JARVIS, with DJ behind him, with Rhodey behind him.

DJ threatened Brian with a sickle and hit him a bit hard.

dox: Now we're going to have to ask Doctor Google.

We’re still talking to Brian, getting info from him on the Black Spider and what he’s doing.

Zira:  Brian, your voice is so ridiculous.

Magic Brian: Thank you.

Zira: What do you know about the Horned Crown? 

(pause interrupted by dice roll)

Magic Brian: The what now?

No one is convinced by Brian’s supposed ignorance.

DJ: So, how did you recognize my sister?

Magic Brian (looking at Zira): Sister?

Tony: Yeah, sister. You got a problem with that?

We get more info from Brian. It’s...relatively pathetic.

Zira: So you're just another greedy criminal running around and sticking his fingers in as many things as possible.

Magic Brian: I feel like I should be offended by that.

We’re trying to decide on what to do about Brian. He knows who Zira is and he’s somewhat familiar with the Horned Crown, but we don’t believe him when he says he won’t do anything with the knowledge. DJ is all for killing him.

Zira: I read one whole entire ethics book, and maybe killing someone who's tied up and can't escape...isn't good.

Magic Brian: äh yês....kill më whîle I ám bøünd...drîvé ä dágger thrøugh mÿ héârt...

DJ: Oh, shut the fuck up!

Zira had a metaphor that we didn’t end up hearing.

Tony: What metaphor were you going to use?

Zira: Oh, something about murder.

We’re still undecided.

Tony: I think...I don't feel comfortable killing him, but - oh my god, Alatar. That train was so loud.

Tony goes off to confer very quietly with Rhodey. The suggestion of cutting tongues off is brought up. Rhodey is a bit taken aback at this suggestion. DJ, Rhodey, and Zira head into the other room with the dwarf brother, leaving Tony and Daniel alone with Magic Brian.

inu: You didn't get a promise from Tony not to cut off tongues or do anything with hands. 

Everyone: Oh NO

inu: Tony heads back into the room.

Alatar: Wait, Daniel's alone with Magic Brian again.

Helio: Make this a running theme! If you're not a coward~

The other three are conferring in the room with the brother about what to do with Magic Brian. They eventually agree to not kill him.

DJ: So, if we're not being stabby about this, should we have left Brain with Cutty and McArmoff in there?

Rhodey: Shit.

Daniel and Tony are alone with Brian...trying to determine what to do with him and if he’ll be quiet.

Magic Brian: Everyone dies.

Tony: Of old age. Of death. [this is my brain farting on me]

Magic Brian: People do die of death, yes.

Tony eventually decides he’s just super pathetic. The others come back before a decision can be made, but in the meantime Magic Brian gets the sense Tony is dead serious about doing something bad.

DJ: DOES HE HAVE BOTH HIS ARMS

Nundro is led into the room to decide what to do with Brian because this guy has terrorized his family and killed one of his brothers.

DJ to Magic Brian, escorting Nundro into the room: Hey, jackass, the family you've been terrorizing is here.

DM: Oh man, I don't like it when I have to do things.

Zira is very earnest and sweet and confusing the hell out of Magic Brian.

Zira: Gardening is emotionally healing, and I feel like you have a lot of emotions to work out. Being a crime lord will do that to you.

It’s decided Brian will be imprisoned and get to see the Ironstone brothers profit from the mine and sulk about his misfortune. We tie him up and blindfold him and lead him back through the mines. We do discover a room filled with more bugbears and decide to block the doorway with rubble.

JARVIS sits on Brian while we do this.

Tony wants to talk to the spectator again, see if they can figure out what to do with it.

DJ: Let's go see the Spectator and probably DIE.

Nundro tells the spectator the mine is under new ownership and whips out some papers proving this. Tony provides backup. The spectator believes us and decides to poof out of the plane of reality to elsewhere.

We’re now free to explore the forge! We find some fancy boots of stealth for Rhodey to take away his disadvantage and an alchemy jar!

The Forge of Spells is a bit underwhelming. It only adds +1 to things for a limited amount of time.

Daniel and Zira really want to stick their hands in to see what happens.

Rhodey and Tony frog march Zira out of the Forge of Spells.

Zira: But we'll never know what happens--

Daniel sticks his hands into the forge and immediately gets burnt, much to Zira's delight and everyone else's dismay.

At the beginning of the mine we realize we need to climb back up out of the hole we went through. This is an issue for reasons of Brian being tied up and blindfolded and JARVIS having no hands.

DJ: I got JARVIS, because Tony probably doesn't trust me with Magic Brian.

Tony: What makes you think I trust you with JARVIS?

DJ: Fine, send up Magic Brian! 

Tony: What makes you think I trust you with Magic Brian?

Once we’re out of the mines, the discussion moves to murder (somehow?).

Zira: [Murder] isn't so bad when they can fight back--

Tony: No, it's still bad.

Zira: But what if it’s for SCIENCE.

I think we ended up back in Briarbane at the end, finishing off the session here. There’s more incoming next time!

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Session 9

This session was another dungeon crawler! We also hit level 4 by the end! A lot happened; it was also a very giggly session as we kept breaking out of character to laugh.

All of us were in attendance, and we have lots of highlights.

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We open up immediately after Tony (me) has had the dream, and DJ (doxblogsstuff) and Zira ( @heliocentricgeometric​) are first up and chatting about breakfast. DJ would like to apologize to Tony for what happened the other day.

DJ: I was gonna try to apologize by making him breakfast.

Zira: doubt.jpg

Zira is not at all certain about DJ doing anything cooking-related, even though DJ insists he knows how to cut things up.

DJ: I'll have you know my professor told me I had the best prepared, and best cut ingredients of anyone in the class. 

Zira: Of what, though?

DJ’s talents lie in alchemy, and Zira is very aware of this.

Zira: You are very good at exploding things, and I fear this talent will extend to everything you do.

DJ: I want to make breakfast, Zira! How hard can it be to make toast?

very hard

DJ does eventually do the toast thing.

Dox: DJ gets his bread out.

@the-grey-hunt​ as DM: Roll for toast.

Dox rolls pretty high, so DJ’s first attempts at making toast go well!

DM: DJ did just make toast perfectly competently in front of you. 

Helio: Yeah, but Zira's still pressing X to doubt.

Dox:  I can't believe I wasted my Nat 20 on toast.

Dox makes some more toast for everyone else but one of them is pretty charcoaled and that goes to Bob ( @thechaoticwave​) since he can’t smell or taste. 

Helio: Zira isn’t laughing in DJ’s face, but the energy is there.

Rhodey ( @rebaobsessions​) gets a rather burnt piece as well but it’s Tony who gets a good piece because DJ’s feeling apologetic.

DJ to Tony: I made toast and didn’t even burn it!

Tony’s still reeling from the dream and the leather glove Bob threw at his head this morning.

Tony: Then why does Rhodey’s bread look rather burnt?

DJ asks for privacy from Zira so he can talk to Tony.

Zira: Have fun! Don't commit any murder!

DJ and Tony have a pretty heartfelt conversation as DJ apologizes for what happened yesterday. Tony’s a little uncertain about the apology because he did deserve it but DJ’s insistent.

They tie it up with talking about their upcoming mission.

DJ: Now we're gonna go and try not to get killed by a bunch of bugbears. This is gonna suck.

DJ then rushes off to make toast for Clint but doesn’t roll very well.

DJ, handing toast to Clint: If it makes you feel better, Bob's was worse.

Clint: It doesn’t.

Tony has a talk with Rhodey about some suspicious stuff Bob did.

Tony: Hey, uh, Rhodey...have you...uh...noticed anything...odd about Bob?

Rhodey probably internally: what the fuck isn’t odd about Bob

Rhodey: Odd?

Tony: (says something buckwild about Bob seeing things that aren’t there)

Rhodey: ...huh.

Rhodey does agree to keep an eye on things with Tony.

Rhodey: What's Bob's name today?

Tony: I have no fucking idea. I'm just calling him Bob. 

Rhodey: So, you haven't asked yet. Good to know.

Tony’s a little sad since he had a good nickname for Bob the previous day.

Tony: What do you think he'd do if I call him Riff-Raff? 

Rhodey: I have no idea. 

Tony turns around. 

Tony: Hey, Riff-Raff! 

Bob doesn't respond. 

Tony: Well, that answers that. 

Reba in the lurking chat: Rhodey stares doubtfully at Tony’s back

We head to Cragmaw Castle! Clint volunteers to sneak.

Zira: That is horrifically structurally unsound. Good luck.

DM: Clint's character in a nutshell: dirty 20 followed immediately by a nat 1

We all have red cloaks from the Redbrands and we make sure we’re ready to go in.

DM to Bob: Your beak is still visible; there's not a lot you can do to hide that.

@imagine1117​: Look down.

We’re all dressed to go bluff our way through the castle!

Zira: Tony, you are very good at bullshit. I think you should go first.

thanks for putting me on the spot, helio

Tony does manage to bluff their way past the guards by saying they scrammed from Briarbane because things went south. They gain access to the castle.

We (Tony & Zira) have a chat with a goblin sentry where Zira is critiquing their structurally unsound choice of a hideout.

Zira: This is absolutely terribly unsafe.

Goblin: What - do you want to go build something?

Tony: This is absolutely awesome and has great atmosphere.

Goblin: See - this guy gets it!

Tony says goodbye by telling him to have fun guarding. We’re then left to our own ends to find the boss who won’t be pleased with us having left Briarbane.

Zira: I assume the boss is behind the trap, because they're usually cowards.

We get further into the castle and there’s an area hidden behind a curtain. Tony suggests investigating and Rhodey and Bob take him up on it.

Reba: I roll 14 for stealth.

DM: Okay! (dice clattering on table)

There’s a monster that drops from the ceiling!

imagine: Is [the grick] slimy? 

DM: Sure.

The grick goes down in no time.

DJ: Hey. Hey, you! (launches Magic Missile) Bitch. 

Bob notices some people behind the curtain. Luna and then Rhodey both go to investigate. Rhodey notices a goblin’s foot behind the altar in the room.

DM: I forgot to roll initiative for some people. 

Me: WHICH PEOPLE 

DM: Don't worry about it. 

imagine: We're worrying!

Me: Of course we're going to worry!

A goblin springs out from behind the altar and tries to attack Rhodey. It misses. DJ then attempted to whack the goblin with his quarterstaff but misses. Tony ran in and then shouted at the goblin to stop attacking because they were allies.

DM: For the record, because of how rounds work, Tony ran in and asked why they were fighting you guys simultaneously as DJ tried to hit him with his quarterstaff.

Helio: So Zira slips over to the doorway to the room, and sees Mom trying to commit murder, Dad attempting to soothe hurt feelings, and her brother doing whatever the fuck he’s doing.

Dox: Also trying to commit murder!

Bob unsuccessfully tries to set the goblin on fire.

There’s another goblin that springs out and this one looks more like a priest and notices our red cloaks and demands an explanation. Tony bullshits one about being from Briarbane.

DM (to me): Roll deception. He's going to roll competing insight - natural one. Don't even bother. He believes you instantly.

Rhodey “intimidates” the first goblin into giving up his weapon. It’s “intimidates” because he rolled a 21 and the goblin got a nat 20 so the goblin grudgingly handed over his scimitar because he was in the wrong.

Reba: I'm trying to get Rhodey to accumulate odd weapons.

We get out of the religious goblins’ way and Tony tells the first goblin to look before he attacks next time since otherwise he might get hurt. The advice is taken seriously.

Once we’re out in private we have a discussion on what to do the next time we meet some goblins. Tony is very serious about telling them that there will be no setting people on fire (to Bob) and no explosions (to DJ) since they will be talking their way through the encounters. So future encounters mean no raising weapons! He drills this into their heads.

DJ: I wanted to protect Mom!

Rhodey covers his mouth to stop laughing.

Rhodey: That’s great, but I don’t need protection.

Tony: But it’s a sweet thought, isn’t it, Hubby?

Everyone in the VC cracks up laughing.

Rhodey: Hubby?

Bob: Is that better or worse than "Rhodeo”?

Zira is confused about when we actually got married but then realizes it’s another nickname. Just a bad one that is not worse than Rhodeo.

Tony: You love all my nicknames. Don’t even lie.

We continue on this vein.

DM: Clint is still there, by the way.

thechaoticwave: I give him another arrow and bolt.

DM: Goddamn it.

Rhodey is decidedly unimpressed with Zira mentioning Rhodeo.

Rhodey: Please, I would take any nickname over “Rhodeo.”

Zira, cheerfully: Okay, Mom!

We continue onwards and don’t run into anymore issues aside from two hobgoblins. Rhodey rolls a great performance check after Tony says he has to walk in like he’s supposed to be there. The hobgoblins are easily enough fooled and direct us to where the boss is as Tony asks if he’s in the usual place.

Most of the group is really uncertain about going to where the boss is so Tony opts for majority opinion. Clint pulls them back and they do end up knocking on the boss’s door.

Bob hides behind Clint since he can’t hide his beak. He also stuffs his new glass staff into Tony’s bag of holding.

thechaoticwave: How tall is Clint? 

DM: Hang on, let me Google how tall Jeremy Renner is.

Our employer is in the room! Along with one bugbear, one pet wolf, and one drow (who is working for the Black Spider). They’re irritated to see us but we’re still in disguise and Tony tries to bluff his way through it but we reach a stalemate.

Bob really wants to set things on fire and asks Tony if he can. Tony nods; Rhodey catches the nod. The three of them get in a surprise round!

Bob heads over to our employer and heals him some.

This is the first time we’ve spoken to Ryss since session 1.

Bob: Hey, what's crackalackin? 

We’re in actual combat and Dox realizes something important about our combat order...

Dox: When did Clint go? 

DM: FUCK

The drow - badly injured - transforms into a mirror image of Rhodey! ...They’re still on fire.

Reba: I want to hit the drow.

DM: What drow? There's just Rhodey.

Mid-combat, Bob asks Tony for his glass staff. I take up an entire action to throw the staff right to him. One awesome DEX save later and Bob catches it.

Zira moves to attack the drow, who still looks like Rhodey. She switches personalities to 465.

DM: So 465 doesn’t give a shit about Rhodey?

Helio: 465 doesn’t give a shit about anyone.

We defeat the drow and the bugbear and the wolf! And there’s loot! And Ryss is okay! We have a map to the Lost Mine!

Reba about the bag of holding: It's an Armory of Holding and a Bag of Healing.

Clint heads off with Ryss (several bolts and arrows later) once we sneak out the castle the back way. The rest of the group will head off to the Lost Mine next session!

Aaaaand that’s a wrap! (And so much bullshitting but surprisingly not many lies.)

#rebaobsessions #heliocentricgeometric #thechaoticwave #doxblogsstuff #the-grey-hunt #imagine1117 #there was so much bullshitting #it was so much fun to have tony say that stuff #d&d campaign

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Session 8

I HAVE TO GET THIS OUT BEFORE I FORGET BECAUSE WHAT AN AWESOME SESSION

RL came up for @thechaoticwave so they were unfortunately not in session but we’re all hoping things work out for them. @rebaobsessions wasn’t feeling too well either so fingers crossed that things get better for her as well. So this meant that there were less emotional conversations than planned but we’ve still got some text RPs planned to deal with the fallout.

What did happen! Between the last session and this one, Tony cut off a cultist’s arm because he wanted to give the kid a choice. We were all in agreement that death wasn’t exactly an option, but Zira (or 465 as we discovered) didn’t do that good of a job questioning him since it was more akin to handing him a burning branch than an olive branch.

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Tony wasn’t about to subject the kid to himself again, so Luna ended up being volunteered to talk to him! Natasha had suggested bringing him to Valsgarde where there are hopefully no cultist members in attendance in the authorities. We were in agreement, so it was Luna’s job to introduce the idea to the cultist - Cavlan.

@imagine1117 as Luna: How's your arm, Calvan?

@the-grey-hunt as DM as Cavlan: Shitty.

Luna: ....Right.

Luna talks to Cavlan, empathizing with him by explaining some of her own personal history with cults and some friends who got wound up in them.

Luna: starts dropping lore

Everyone in the lurking chat: LORE LORE LORE

Luna is fantastic, really gentle and sweet with Cavlan, giving him the time to think and consider. It works, and he does make the choice to go with Natasha, but not before giving Luna the contract he signed with the Horned Crown.

It’s written in Infernal, and Zira ( @heliocentricgeometric) is the only one who can currently read it. The contract is also neither magical nor deconsecrated; it also doesn’t have the signature of the person Cavlan made the contract with. We’re a little perplexed as to what it all means but we hold onto it for future research.

Reba: Rhodey's not proficient in religion, which is kind of hilarious.

It goes into Tony’s handy-dandy bag of holding, and we proceed onwards to where Cragmaw Castle is located. We do make a stop in the night because it’s getting dark.

Rhodey corners Tony at some point, but that’ll be a separate RP since reba wasn’t feeling too well. What did happen live was a sweet conversation between Zira and Tony about the newly revealed personality of Zira - 465.

Tony doesn’t entirely understand what it’s about, but he’s glad that Zira had someone there to protect her, even if he’s sorry she went through that.

Zira reiterates that Tony is good and so is everyone else. And that while Tony thinks he’s not good, she does think he is and she isn’t leaving.

Zira: I’m not doing that. I’m not leaving another family.

The rest of the watch Zira shares with Tony passes peacefully enough, and then we go to sleep...

DM:  Everyone mute...except for Gabriel.

Everyone: GASP

DM: says Literally Anything about Gabriel.

Lurking Chat: SCREAMING

Everyone but me muted.

There’s a dream, and Gabriel looks like himself in this dream.

DM: You notice you look like yourself, in this dream.

Chat: wHaT?

Gabriel finds someone else in the dream sitting on a bench. It’s a mysterious man-shaped being with a cane, and he says Gabriel’s late. Gabriel has no idea who this guy is, only it’s probably a good idea not to piss him off.

Gabriel ends up sitting next to him and learning that he’s the substitute celestial guide who’s stopping the Horned Crown from getting into Gabriel’s head. And that he really doesn’t want to do the job but was put on it by someone only addressed as by “she.”

Who is this guy?

DM: Ah, I forgot. I am Mortimer.

Chat: Death???

Mortimer is asking what Gabriel is thinking about going after the Horned Crown because they don’t know who he is. He shouldn’t go after them; it’s dangerous.

And Gabriel just says...it’s the only way to find nem.

Mortimer isn’t happy. He’s far from happy. He has better things to do with his time than hang around Gabriel and do things. But he has to do it because “she” told him to, so he’s doing it.

And he continues trying to persuade Gabriel to stop his current course of action, but Gabriel says no. He didn’t run away from home because he wasn’t going to do anything. He was going to do something, and he’s going to do it because he has to believe redemption is possible for everyone.

Mortimer: Why are all of you like this

Gabriel: ...Genetics?

The dream ends soon enough once it’s clear Gabriel isn’t about to stop going after the Horned Crown, and that’s the end of the session!

#d&d campaign #the-grey-hunt #imagine1117 #heliocentricgeometric #thechaoticwave #rebaobsessions #doxblogsstuff

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Session 7

We have a session tomorrow at 8:45 CST so I’m getting the summary of our last session together!

We had a lot of eventful happenings this session, along with quite a few awesome highlights!

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We started off following Tony as he wanders into a blacksmith’s forge at 5 in the morning and leaves a pile of gold before he starts working.

@the-grey-hunt (DM) as Blacksmith: What are you doing? Why did you leave a stack of gold pieces at the end of my forge?

Tony: Oh, uh, hi.

Blacksmith: Yeah, hi.

On learning the gold is for the blacksmith they’re happy enough to let Tony continue doing...whatever he’s doing.

Switch back to DJ and Zira after the night out they had... (nah, they just emptied the manor’s wine cellars.)

Dox: DJ isn't getting out of bed until someone makes him.

@heliocentricgeometric: ...Zira drags herself over to him and starts bothering him

Helio: So YOU'RE super terrible AND no help.

Zira doesn’t remember what happened last night because alcohol and something pretty important happened (like picking out a last name!!!)

Zira: I drank to forget my troubles, and I think I asked a very important question, and DJ isn't being very helpful, and.... things.

Rhodey is able to answer Zira’s question about the forgotten events of last night... And that her name is now Zira J. Stark Rhodes!

Rhodey ( @rebaobsessions): Zira, I would really like to hug you right now.

Zira: A hug would be acceptable.

The group discusses Tony’s absence.

Zira: He (Tony) left a note about having fun, and that's a little worrying.

DJ: But the sun is out there. Light is bad.

DJ and Zira are still bemoaning their life choices.

Zira: That is tactically unsound but my head hurts very badly right now.

DJ: The universe hurts

Dox: DJ canonically has a waterskin of an empty mason jar.

Rhodey takes pity on them and clears their hangover and the group is now able to venture out.

Helio: I start combing the town. (for Tony)

DM: The town doesn't need to be combed. (because it’s a tiny town)

There are some eventful happenings with the townmaster! Tony and Bob were busy, okay.

Zira: Hey hey hey!

DM: The townmaster ignores you

Zira: Whatever. He can be a bitch in his own town or whatever. I don’t care.

Zira and DJ get into a discussion on moms and what they’re like and about the secrecy behind DJ’s last name.

DJ: We are related to half of the halflings in Othanzia. EVERYONE knows our name. and if it gets out, they will get all up in our business, and somehow my mother will find out. I wasn't supposed to get into hijinks!

DJ tells Zira moms can kill you with kindness.

Zira: So Tony's the killing and you're the kindness?

DJ: .................eh

(more accurate than you would think)

Zira: Thank you, DJ, for your name and your...motherly...advice?

Meanwhile, with Rhodey... It’s time for his paladin oath. This is a big thing, and reba and Alatar came up with something absolutely fantastic with a super long monologue and a series of visions for Rhodey to determine what path is the best for him...

It’s far too long for here, but it was super cool and amazing and Rhodey picks the last oath: The Oath of the Guardian.

Zira gets more info from Rhodey about how moms act!

Zira: (long stream of consciousness) and also how to mothers act? DJ says you're like a mom.

Rhodey: They guilt trip you to make you not do dangerous things.

Zira: Oh, like Ms. Payne! Except with her it was usually in the other direction--

Rhodey: NO 

The gang finds Luna doing “Luna things.”

Zira: Are you eating dirt?

Luna ( @imagine1117​): ...no.

Once everyone (sans Bob since he’s on laundry duty for the morning because he has no sense of smell) wanders back to Tony, Tony’s finished with what he was making!

It’s...JARVIS!!

Tony’s super manic on lack of sleep and is just rambling and introducing JARVIS to everyone.

Tony: This is Zira, She's not my kid 'cause i'm not responsible enough for that. Maybe a little sister, idk.

Tony scribbles a smiley face just like Bob’s on DJ’s hand.

Zira excitedly tells Tony about her new name, which Tony was already aware of since he was not drunk.

Zira: My name is now Zira J Stark Rhodes!

Also Zira asking Tony about moms...

Zira: How are moms supposed to act? Like i know your dad's a huge bastard but--

Tony squints off into the distance, clearly not willing to voice his actual thoughts on the matter.

Tony: Uhh...warm and...loving?

Zira: Everything I’ve learned about moms is that they’re awesome and amazing!

Tony: Yeeeeaaahhh...let’s go with that.

Finished with laundry duty (and because his player is now able to play), Bob rejoins the party! He meets JARVIS.

Bob ( @thechaoticwave​) tries to send JARVIS hi, question mark: Hi?

DM: Unfortunately JARVIS is a machine.

Tony on drinking.

Tony: I hope we learned a valuable lesson to not drink?

Zira, quietly: Yeeees.

Zira, for some reason...

Zira (enthusiastically): I was gardening!

The group meets the new townmaster after the old one was unceremoniously ousted from his position. Alas, the office door is nailed shut. No, it wasn’t Tony, what do you think

Leanne: Do you have a hammer? 

Tony: I have 3 hammers. 

Leanne: ...that's a lot of hammers.

Leanne is concerned about the paperwork.

Leanne: I have to worry about taxes now.

DJ: Sorry?

We meet up with Clint and Natasha now!

Zira: Guess who has 3 last names right now!!

Natasha: uh, you?

Zira: ME!!

The town we have to head to so we can find information on Cragmaw Castle was destroyed by a volcano in olden days.

Zira: The thing about an ash cloud is, it can choke you until you die.

Zira: Also, there will be a lot of dead things there, and it will be... I don't know. A lot of you seem squeamish about dead thing.

We make it to the town and find lots of warnings about plant monsters! Tony is not amused.

Zira: Not to be defeatist, but lots of plants plus warnings about plant monsters usually equals horrible planty death.

We talk to the druid whose our contact via Clint and Natasha and we get info on the plant monsters. And a dragon. But the plant monsters take priority since apparently they can’t lie except when they’re evil; and when they’re evil of course they’re going to lie and say they’re good plants?!

Tony: (focused on the plants)

DJ: Tony, Tony, Tony! Did you miss the dragon?!

Tony: I was more focused on the lying plants! 

DJ: It's a dragon! 

Zira: Dragon!

No one’s happy about the dragon.

Tony: Here’s the upside, dragons are so big we won't be able to miss it.

Zira: Counterpoint! Dragons are very big and good at killing people!

We defeat the dragon and the 3 Horned Crown cultists trying to capture it with a net and some sticks. Natasha gets the final blow in.

Natasha to Clint: I'm never going anywhere with you again.

Clint: You say that every time.

Aaaaand...that was it for the session! But we have a shit-ton of RPs after this session because someone decided to wake up and heal a wyrmling and...uh...arms got chopped off.

Next session tentatively titled (courtesy of Dox) “It’s All Fun and Games Until Someone’s Disarmed.”

#doxblogsstuff #imagine1117 #rebaobsessions #heliocentricgeometric #thechaoticwave #the-grey-hunt #d&d campaign

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Session 19

We were almost all in attendance for Session 19! But for Zira ( @heliocentricgeometric​) and she was sorely missed. Unfortunately, two of us got sick halfway through the session so it was cut short.

However, we had Highsummer shenanigans! Quite a bit of them.

So without further ado...

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We’re back in Ankh, and Gabriel has let Balthazar know (with kind sibling love) that the party is back in the city. Balthazar is very happy about this, I assure you.

Rhodey ( @rebaobsessions​) and Tony go shopping at the beginning for a pouch for Tony’s magical amulet that has an unfortunate tendency to burn him. The pouch is a bit too big at first.

Reba: Worst comes to worst, Rhodey can sew. 

Alatar ( @the-grey-hunt​): If you make it with love, it insulates better.

Awkwardness ensues once we’re on the first day of Highsummer; no one speaks.

DM: I do need someone other than me to say something eventually.

DJ (doxblogsstuff) is woken up very rudely by the sun. Zira is gone because helio is gone but the in-game reason is that she was too excited for presents and so had to excuse herself because otherwise she would start snooping.

DJ: Whyyy did I pick an east-facing window?

Downstairs, questions are had about what exactly goes on in Highsummer?

Tony: What does the first day of Highsummer normally entail?

Reba: Alatar, what does the first day of Highsummer involve?

(There’s so much; I’m not listing all of it.)

Balthazar is supposed to join us! As is Hannah! (Because yes, they’re both in Ankh!)

DJ: Probably a good idea for me to get to know Uncle Balthazar anyway.

Tony: Are you going to call him that to his face?

DJ: Maaaaybe.

Bob ( @lynnnnnnnnnnmnnnnnnnnnnnnnmnnnmn​ [with...too many ns and ms and no]) and Luna ( @imagine1117​) are downstairs with the cats.

Lynn: Hug with the cats, or without? 

imagine: With.

DM: They deserve to participate in this.

There’s jousting going on as well! Tony suggests Rhodey can join because he’s good at that kind of stuff, isn’t he?

Rhodey: I never learned how to joust.

DM (quietly): It's a lawless sport.

(Rhodey is against joining jousting, much to Tony’s [not serious] disappointment.)

Balthazar and Hannah join us now, so the group gets to meet the distant member of Gabriel’s family they haven’t seen before.

DJ: If that's Uncle Balthazar, does that make you Aunt Hannah?

DM: Balthazar has a look like he's not sure whether to be insulted.

Discussion is had on what the group would like to do, with options for the feast/sacrifice at the temple or the joust.

Bob (softly, with feeling): Joust.

Hannah (raises hand): I have to agree. Joust.

Some others agree. Tony’s not really for or against it.

Hannah: One more? 

Luna (quiet, deadpan): Joust.

It’s decided to do the joust!

...Only when we go there, the joust hasn’t started. It’s still being set up. So, disappointed, the group decides what to do now.

Who wants to go to the temple?

DM: It's perfectly acceptable to go over to Pelor's temple and say "Hey, thanks for making the sun."

Bob and Luna decide to go to the temple and check things out there. I think the rest of the party was like “we’re gonna wander around randomly” and check out the noodle stand Balthazar and Tony found the other day. And JARVIS did a thing?

DM: Tony's like, "This isn't what I build you to do!" and JARVIS does not care

inu: Exactly.

Bob and Luna get into shenanigans at the temple when they meet a jouster who will be jousting in the joust and ask the jouster how one can join (they’re angling to get Rhodey into the thing).

Knight Nonzuemver: Anybody could buy a shield and a horse and paint something on it. The shield, not the horse.

(The jouster is supposed to have a Russian accent. Alatar has no idea how to do a Russian accent.)

Luna: Nice to meet you, Nonzu--(trails off in a mumble) 

DM: Perfect! Got it in one.

The two get information on joining the joust and now have a plan of action.

Bob: You know that this means!

DM: ...I do?

Luna: No?

(sad sound of crickets)

Bob and Luna epically fail their quest to try and sign Rhodey up for the joust, which is for the best because Rhodey would have been greatly displeased at the unexpected surprise.

The joust does start the next day, and our entire party (plus Balthazar and Hannah) are there.

DJ sits on Rhodey's shoulders for the joust.

Tony: Your height is built on lies.

DJ sticks his tongue out.

Tony: Well, Zira's not here, so someone's got to point it out.

DJ is unexpectedly hired by the Alchemists’ Guild for a job while the joust is going! Tony goes with him because DJ looks nervous and he’s not that interested in the joust.

DM: That's right, I put some plot in here!

DJ doesn’t know what’s happening.

Dox: That's the closest I can do as a woman to having my voice break.

The job is interesting and DJ will do just fine as Tony assures him.

DJ: I think being me is the worst thing possible. I don't think they want this to blow up in their faces.

Later, Rhodey gets into an arm wrestling competition because Tony encouraged him. ;) He wins.

DM: They give you a pamphlet on the way out.

Tony flatters Rhodey’s strength.

DJ: Rhodey...Tony thinks you're stronk and manly.

(Well, wouldn’t you??)

DJ starts the job and does pretty well! It’s interesting stuff; they’re dealing with the highly illegal substance of...blackpowder. DJ is so tempted but also being very responsible.

DM: After a few days DJ starts smelling like black powder [...] Just a vaguely combustible smell.

Back at the joust, sometime in the morning, we are approached by a jouster who thinks she’s being sabotaged. She was pointed our way by someone...familiar.

inu: who do we know who has white hair and - oh! Zira!

imagine: That's bad parenting, Tony, not even knowing what your daughter looks like.

(To be fair, it’s not like we go by character descriptions all the time.)

(Also Tony: I don’t have a daughter - what are you talking about?)

The course of our investigation leads us to a tiefling we’re suspecting is behind the sabotage, but we’re still trying to find out who it is and where they are when two of our members are taken out at the knees by being sick.

So that’s where we left off for this session! Next one is more Highsummer shenanigans and presents.

#d&d campaign #doxblogsstuff #the-grey-hunt #rebaobsessions #thechaoticwave #imagine1117 #heliocentricgeometric

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Session 10

I never did a summary of our 10th session and we just had our 11th today. Anyway, here’s what happened in Session 10 (so much).

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Zira ( @heliocentricgeometric​), Rhodey ( @rebaobsessions​), and myself retrieved DJ (doxblogsstuff) from wandering out lost in the forest while clutching a boquet of flowers to entice Luna. Alas, Luna had already left for greener pastures to get to Bob.

Oh yeah, something else happened directly pre-this session but that’s a text rp thing. Anyway, Bob traumatized Tony. It was very bad but led to some sweet conversations.

It’s discovered Luna can turn into a rabbit.

DJ: A rabbit?

Zira: Yeah.

DJ: ...Why? 

Zira: It just be like that sometimes.

DJ is wet from trying to throw water over Tony and Bob and only succeeding on getting it on himself and one of Tony’s shoes. Tony grabs a blanket from his bag of holding to dry him off.

@the-grey-hunt​ as DM: You're adventurers and you don't even have towels?

inu: I don't see towels in my inventory, I'm using a cloak.

reba: Tony’s being Dad(TM) at DJ.

There was mention of a cart in our last text RP.

DM: We don't have a cart, and I don't know why people keep thinking we do. 

DJ tries hanging his clothes on a tree branch to dry.

dox: The boy's three feet tall so we all know how well that goes.

Zira tries to wake up Bob ( @thechaoticwave​) and Luna ( @imagine1117​) who fell asleep on the roadside.

Zira: Hey. Hey. Heyheyhey hey.

Tony’s being Tony and is just aggressively ignoring everybody.

Zira: Hey, Rhodey, I think Tony is avoiding his problems.

Bob and Luna wake up!

Sam: What's good? 

Zira: Nothing is good! Ever! Let's go!

DJ, at Luna: You didn't tell me you could rabbit!!

Luna: I can rabbit?

Zira: Correct.

Zira is concerned about the party’s mental health!

Zira: I may not be legally a doctor...

Zira really wants us to talk things out now!

Tony: I don't think any of us are in the mood for emotionally fraught conversations.

Zira: I'm always in the mood for emotionally fraught conversations!

Tony does not engage in emotionally fraught conversations. Emotionally fraught conversations are not had.

thechaoticwave: Sam (Bob) flies over to Luna and just cats on her.

Zira has demanded a fairy tale/story from Tony, and he’s happy enough to oblige.

Zira, very quietly: ...stories......yay!

I tell a very long fairy tale I wrote during a backstory scene. it works out great and everyone likes it.

Later Zira tells everyone we can’t die.

Zira: It's illegal for you people to die. I just decided.

Luna: What's the penalty if we die?

DJ: She’ll aggressively mourn you until you feel bad and come back to life.

DJ gets a piggy-back ride from Rhodey for some reason that I can’t remember, which leads to a discussion on heights.

Zira: Your height is built on lies and Rhodey.

Zira: I'm average height for an aasimar.

Tony: Ehhhh, not...that average.

Zira: Well, I don't know! And how do you know anyway?

Tony (internally): Uh, shit.

Tony: I’ve met a few aasimar on my travels. They’re pretty obvious.

Zira: How tall are aasimar, then?

Tony indicates about his height or a little shorter.

Zira: That's...stupid. I like this height better.

That night Zira would like to contact Zaphkiel, her celestial guide.

DM: Zaphkiel is still charging his Nokia.

Gabriel has a Dream! He tries to find Mortimer, but doesn’t find Mortimer. He does find...Balthazar?! 

DM describing new character: He looks a little more genuinely scruffy, but his shirt is still open almost to his bellybutton. it's so weird because your shirt doesn't have buttons, but his does and they're not done up.  

We’re both really shocked to see each other, and it soon comes out that Balthazar is also in Othanzia with Hannah and has been for a while. And Gabriel’s family has broken apart since his absence.

Balthazar: If, on the off chance you are Gabriel, where the fuck have you been?

Gabriel doesn’t have any answers for Balthazar he can give beyond trying to tell him that he’s in Othanzia and somewhere in the middle of nowhere.

Gabriel: Briarbane? 

Balthazar: Never heard of it. 

Gabriel: EXACTLY

Gabriel tries to tell Balthazar what happened with Samael/Lucifer and two of their other missing siblings, but Balthazar doesn’t want to believe him, and Gabriel wakes up.

DJ tries making toast again that morning.

Helio: I need to know what the outcome was!

DM: 18. it's good toast.

Helio: FUCK

DJ discusses his bombs (I think?).

DJ: I'm not dead yet. 

Zira: YET

Zira has plans to get Tony and Bob to talk to each other.

DJ (to Zira, who is walking away yelling at Bob and Tony): Are you sure you want to ignore Mom?

Tony and Bob are forced to talk to each other. thechaoticwave is absolutely fantastic at crying, and Tony feels really bad but he’s pretty firm on them needing answers or it’s not going to work out. And then leaves because he can’t deal with the conversation any further.

The next night Gabriel has another Dream and meets Joshua. Still no Mortimer, but Joshua? And Joshua is the only one still left at Gabriel’s old home. Everyone else has left. Some to explore the world and others (Michael, Raphael, and Naomi) to hunt down the Horned Crown.

It’s a calmer conversation than the one Gabriel had with Balthazar but no less upsetting. But he does learn a lot more about what’s happened since he left!

And the next day we finally reach the last dungeon of the opening module! And there’s...things. And a pit.

inu: Ae you just going to tell me it's a rope?

DM: No, there's things.

inu rolls a 5

DM: Ehh it's a rope!

We climb down a pit. Except JARVIS. He jumps and Rhodey manages to catch him but gets some damage while doing so.

Tony: I hope you've learned a lesson to not jump down pits and expect our fiances to catch us. 

Rhodey: Am I engaged to JARVIS now, too?

10 sturgis attack us while we’re exploring!

thechaoticwave: 5 points of fire damage.

DM: 5?! That's all their hit points!

Tony goes off by himself and opens a door before Rhodey can stop him. There are 3 ghouls in it.

Rhodey is unhappy with this arrangement.

Reba: Is it possible for me to roll athletics to pick up Tony and move him?

Rhodey proceeds to shove Tony to the side to attack the ghouls.

Tony: RUDE.

Bob: hey ghouls, its me, ya boi.

The ghouls have the most ridiculous names.

DM: Thus ends Robtholomew.

Luna gets her poison spray cantrip in! And it hits!

...

The one time Luna's Poison Spray cantrip hits, the creature is immune to poison damage

imagine: Luna's gonna try and lob [the ghoul's] head off.

DM: Roll for beheading.

Later we enter a large hall filled with skeletons. Zira’s asking Zaphkiel for...something.

DM: [Zaphkiel]'s Nokia is at cell phone repair.

There’s a cool forge in one room! DJ and Tony both go to investigate before the DM even finishes describing the room. ...There are zombies.

They attack Tony and DJ.

Tony (to the zombies): First of all, rude. Second of all, fuck you.

Rhodey joins the fight and at one point...

Rhodey rolls a nat 1 but his strength is So Good and the undead's AC So Bad that Rhodey manages to hit it.

And DJ hits one with a quarterstaff!

DJ: Why, hello there! Would you like me to whack you? Yes, yes, you would.

Bob and Luna team up with a fire spell and a thorn thing and trap a lot of zombies. And that’s the end of Session 10! Session 11 saw us defeat the dungeon boss!

#d&d campaign #thechaoticwave #doxblogsstuff #imagine1117 #rebaobsessions #the-grey-hunt #heliocentricgeometric

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You are so so bitter about this

It was 66 points of necrotic damage since I failed my CON save. Only we had no idea it was necrotic damage so Tony went straight down to 0 and then failed 2 death saving throws because of an Eldritch blast. Only to be hit another turn later by another Eldritch blast and then fail another 2 death saving throws.

...yeah, he was dead.

And then someone mentioned the spell, I looked it up, and was like WAIT. Tony has resistance to necrotic damage, so it should have been 33 points of damage and not 66. Leaving him still standing until getting hit by the Eldritch blast, which would in the end just lead to 2 failed death saving throws.

2 throws versus 4 is a big difference. The difference between dead and not dead...

No, I’m not letting it go. :P

#the-grey-hunt #imagine1117 #ask and you shall receive

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Session 5

With all my schoolwork and internship I wasn’t able to put together a highlights reel of our last session, but I have some time now so I’m doing the thing!

This time all seven of us were present and it heralded some truly fantastic moments.

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We opened up after an RP Zira ( @heliocentricgeometric) and Tony (me) had, where DJ (doxblogsstuff) woke up and took a look at his hand:

Dox: I was just going to say that DJ woke up, looked at his hand, and started swearing.

Bob ( @thechaoticwave) is still looking for our group and we spent some time chatting and eating breakfast while waiting for our bird friend to join us and also speculating how Bob was going to find us.

thechaoticwave: My name begins with a t today and that's all you get to know.

We’re eating breakfast and DJ is putting together elixirs so he doesn’t have to mess around for 2 turns in combat.

Dox: DJ comes very close to using the wrong hand to eat the wrong thing but then he stops himself.

For some reason Zira ends up telling the party she’s descended from celestials!

Zira:  I'm descended from celestials.

Everyone else: [is basically the gif set of John Mulaney going “This might as well happen? Adult life is already so goddamn weird.”]

Tony already knew the thing and so just patted Zira on the head.

We move on to discussing how we’re supposed to make ourselves obvious enough for Bob to find us.

Rhodey ( @rebaobsessions): We could sing? 

Zira: You people are all CRAZY

Zira goes off on how singing would draw basically every enemy to us because that is not subtle.

Zira: THERE ARE ALWAYS MORE UNDEAD

Also featuring:

Zira: Why would you make soldiers sing? That's not their job!

We’re wondering just how soldiers even got to singing.

Luna ( @imagine1117): So you didn't have to audition.

DJ insists he’s not singing because he’s a terrible singer but Tony’s insisting that he should sing.

DJ: Rhodey said i didn't have to sing!

Tony: Well, I guess we just want Bob to be flying around forever then.

There is singing and it’s done by @the-grey-hunt who has a lovely voice!

It was decided the party’s sole brain cell is currently being held by Rhodey.

Someone:  Does Bob have any brain cells?

thechaoticwave: Bob has absolutely 0 brain cells, despite needing intelligence.

This interaction came to life for some reason:

Zira: DJ, how are you not dead?

DJ: Explosions.

Zira: I am traveling with a bunch of idiots.

Luna: it took you this long to notice? 

Zira: I thought you had at least some self-preservation, but I guess not.

Tony: I have a very well developed sense of self-preservation! I’m still here, aren’t I?

Zira: We have what appears to be a 100% survival rate, but that could change at any moment.

We were rolling for something?

Dox: DJ rolled a 1. Wait, I can reroll that, never mind!

Rhodey checks the tower out where we defeated two specter a few days ago and notes it’s still desecrated. This is news to Zira.

Zira: It’s DESECRATED?!

In the area there are also suspicious tracks indicating someone was staying in the area for a while but we have no clue who other than that they’re not stalking us despite Zira’s doubts.

Bob joins us! Tony immediately asks him about his four shoulders.

Zira: Does that mean you're distantly related to dragons?

Bob: (genuinely distressed) I don't know I'm a bird!

Tony: You missed us fighting two undead and Rhodey sweet-talking a banshee into giving up her underwear.

Bob: You're a PALADIN, Rhodey, what the heck?

We get to talking about necromancers because of the undead.

Bob: Is there a necromancer nearby?

Zira: There might be! You never know!

it’s totally Zira because she keeps talking about death

The previous night Tony and Zira had a heavy conversation about the Horned Crown and their associations with it, which I have to post here because damn did some plot developments happen!

But Tony’s bringing the rest of the group up-to-date on everything and how Zira and he are totally going to go after this group and bring them down.

DJ: What about this As--

Zira: Do not. Say his name! Are you CRAZY?!

DJ: What if you think it?

We’re all a measly level 2 so Zira is rather alarmed at the notion of going after this group immediately.

Zira: While I am full of rage, i would rather not die. You're all crazy and super killable right now.

Tony: We’re just going to gather information first!

Why did we start talking about this?

Zira (probably): You can't confine yourself to one method of murder. There's just so many. With the number of weapons around, the chances of our getting stabbed in the back? Increasing. I'm not making any specific accusations. I have no evidence....yet.

Luna: Hands up if you're going to betray us, stab us in the back, and then kill us. 

(No one responds)

Luna: I think we're good.

We’re talking about nerds now!

Zira: Luna...you're also a nerd, for nature.

Luna: Yes.

Zira: Ted...I don't know what you're a nerd for yet.

Tony: If Rhodey ever tries to tell you he’s not a nerd he’s lying.

Zira: Nerds group together. They're like really nervous birds.

thechaoticwave: Ted waves.

DJ gives Tony healing potions and I have an epic goof-up.

Me: So we have five bottles of healing - I mean healing potions.

We’re back in Briarbane, and Tony’s off to talk to the townmaster regarding some orcs!

Helio: Zira trails behind Tony like a duckling.

The townmaster is enjoying a nice cup of coffee when Tony asks him some nice questions about the orcs he’s concerned about.

Tony: So have these orcs been stealing, pillaging, or murdering anyone?

DM ( @the-grey-hunt): He’s looking increasingly sweaty as you keep talking.

Townmaster: They’re there?

This guy is an epic racist and per the party members who were not present for this convo but listening in over the mic Tony (and thus me) dragged this guy through the mud.

Tony: Well, I suppose I’ll see about getting them moved because they’re clearly unsafe here next to you. What kind of proof will you need?

Townmaster: Oh, just anything...

Tony: I'll be back with a letter.

Townmaster: A letter?

Tony: A letter. Because they know their letters. They're not uncivilized beings.

Zira takes a moment for a final potshot at this guy.

Zira: So would you say I’m dangerous? (she doesn’t look human at all, baring sharp teeth)

Townmaster (rolls a Nat 1): No.

Zira: Hey, Mr. Townmaster, sir. You're a bitchass liar.

We finally meet up with Clint again and the first thing Zira tells him is that the townmaster is a bitchass liar and every other citizen in the vicinity doesn’t disagree.

While we’re discussing the Redbrands, Clint goes:

Clint: I don't know why this town has two pubs when it only has, like, 400 people.

On further discussion of this group and what to do...

DJ: Glasstaff?

Clint: ...okay, very funny. I know who Glasstaff is.

Tony: Yeah, he has a glass staff.

Clint: So I've heard.

Bob: WAIT, DOES HE REALLY?

We’re talking murder!

Zira: (singing) Murder time!

Clint: Don't say that out loud. 

Tony: (stares him in the eyes and says in a flat tone) Murder time.

Clint does not come with us as we head to the Redbrands because he has very few arrows and a whole lot of bolts from Bob.

We’re in a dungeon now! An actual dungeon while we deal with the Redbrands!

Luna locates a cool bag and because there’s something suspiciously magic in there she up-ends it per Tony’s advice. A bunch of gold hits the floor along with two bottles that proceed to break. One was a healing potion and the other an unknown poison.

We’re all very sad at the loss of a healing potion.

We find a bedroom and per Zira’s instructions proceed to defile it because that’s going to spook our enemies.

Bob does smiley face graffiti everywhere.

And that’s where we left off! In the middle of a dungeon and the next session is TOMORROW at 1:00 CST!

#d&d campaign #heliocentricgeometric #doxblogsstuff #rebaobsessions #the-grey-hunt #thechaoticwave #imagine1117

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Session 1

Session 1 was a...should I say wild ride? A wild ride assumes that Rhodey is a terrible cart driver and he’s not so let’s just say Session 1 was a hike.

There was a lot of cross talk and I’m terrible with cross talk due to my hearing but there are still good highlights that were collected! (And some that weren’t but which I remember.)

We started off by joining our two parties together, and DJ found Rhodey and Tony first of all and started berating them.

DJ aka @doxblogsstuff: How did you not read my note? I looked all over for you guys! (which is a blatant lie)

Tony aka me: Hey, buddy, Rhodey and I looked all over for a note and there was nothing.

DJ: Why didn’t you leave a note?!

Also Bo aka @thechaoticwave is now Bill and wasn’t that a trip:

Bo-now-Bill: I’m Bill.

Tony: Since when?!

Bill: Since always?

Tony: You were Bo yesterday!

Bill: I’m Bill.

Tony: Rhodey, wasn’t he Bo yesterday?

Rhodey aka @rebaobsessions: Let’s go with it.

Further introductions:

Tony: And this is Rhodey before he tells you any lies about himself.

Rhodey: Damn it.

DJ, on seeing Bo: !!!!

doxbloggstuff:  He's pointing at B - the artist formerly known as Bo.

And then cross talk in which I had no idea what was said but apparently consisted of such highlights like

“I am very small, and I have no money, so you can imagine the stress I am under.”

“Death is always relevant, and it's always coming!”

“I don't know how hollow my bones are, I'd rather not find out!”

Zira aka @heliocentricgeometric continues talking about death: 

“It's just so easy to make everything look like an accident these days.”

We ride in a cart for 3 days and Rhodey pulls us to a stop when we’re ambushed by GOBLINS and DJ doesn’t get to throw a single bomb because these are apparently unhealthy goblins and they go down like flies.

Rhodey: (screams at goblin)

Goblin-played-by-our-DM: (intimidated but it’s uncertain if it’s because of the scream or because 3 of its compatriots went down in less than 6 seconds)

DJ is very put out that he didn’t get to throw a single bomb and Tony’s just patting his head.

Tony: You can throw a bomb at those trees over there if you want to blow something up.

DJ: :(

@heliocentricgeometric forgot how tall Zira is and while we’re asking a goblin how tall her leader is it’s unexpectedly discovered Zira is 6′6″.

“Didn't you say you were 6'6" last time?”

“Oh my god, you might be right.”

We’re hiding the cart rather inexpertly and I think @imagine1117 rolled super, super low on nature even though she’s a half-elf.

Zira:  Nature lady, you're all up in that like, leaves and shit.

Luna: I’m better at animals than...leaves.

Zira at one point is talking about how when people die everything just goes all over the place and leaves the body.

Tony: Thanks for the info.

Zira: You’re welcome! :)

Rhodey puts our captured goblin on a baby leash because apparently we do things like that after Zira unwisely wakes up an untied goblin.

Tony: Don’t wake him up! He’s not tied up!

Zira: It’s okay; I’ve got him handled.

We go on a hike to rescue our employer from those nasty goblins! It’s a long hike!

And then we run into a cave with 2 goblin sentries posted outside.

Rhodey (our paladin and the adventurer with the most armor out of the entire party): Someone else go first.

Tony proceeds to interrogate our captive goblin for details and hammers out a plan with an awesome distraction which all proceeds to fail beautifully when one goblin gets a 20 on perception and sees Tony as he’s sneaking away from the distraction.

Tony gets a low stealth roll. Luna practically disappears into the trees but everyone else also gets low rolls and is just standing there like deer in headlights.

BATTLE

Tony misses with his firebolt and hits the brambles.

Me: What happens if I set the brambles on fire?

@the-grey-hunt: Presumably they would be on fire.

Me: Great, they’re on fire.

DJ got the last bomb in and defeated the goblin sentries and the brambles are still smoldering and we’re now outside the caves and ready to explore for Session 2.

(Also, on a meta level, Bill is now known as Tim but no one knows that.)

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