At the end of last thread, you had some things you wished to get done right away.

>Cut a deal with Claire; you take over all the courier jobs, she studies (on what little materials she has left, but that will improve with time), in return she's gotta find ways to improve our growth.
"What, go back to how things were? No. Fuck that. This made me realize something, Jack. Going through all the effort of learning magic just to use it to help people is a waste. I couldn't stop them from taking me; I couldn't keep them from hurting me. All that work was worthless. So screw helping people.

No one is ever hurting me like that again."

>Give Claire the crossbow and the normal dagger.
"And they say men never listen."

>Can she identify the potions?
"That one will give you a boost of strength, that one will give you a boost of speed, and that one--actually, why don't you give me that one."

>We make a good team, you and I. I'm sure we'll cross paths again in the future. Stay safe, bro.
>Give the secret doppelganger handshake.
"I return the sentiment. For now, farewell."

>Head with Claire to the burnt out remains of the house. Salvage what we can.
Claire looks like she wants to start crying at the sight of her burned out house, but heads into the rubble with a set face and starts digging. There's not much that survived, and less still of value. Eventually, you manage to locate a cheap safe beneath several collapsed beams and pry it out. "Oh please, please don't be ashes inside..." Claire mutters, working the lock. A stroke of luck--the book is mostly intact, although the edges of most pages are charred, the contents should be still useable. Claire gives the house one last look. "We've got what we came for. Let's go."

>LOOK STATS
Hit Dice: 4d6+12 HP (1/28 HP)
Base Attack/Grapple: +2/+6
Masterwork Knife +7 melee (1d4+4), 19-20/x2 crit
Cricket Bat +6 melee (1d6+4)
Claws +6 melee (1d4+2)
Bite +6 melee (1d6+4)
Crossbow +1 ranged (1d8)
Composite Longbow +5 ranged (1d8+2), x3 crit
Longsword +6 melee (1d8+4), 19-20/x2 crit

AC 19 (+3 dex, +4 natural, +2 leather armor)
Str 18, Dex 17, Con 17, Int 10, Wis 17, Cha 14
Fort +6, Reflex +7, Will +4
+7 Initiative
60 foot land speed, 15 foot climb speed, 30 foot swim speed
Membrane for gliding (40 ft (clumsy) in favourable winds)
Scent, Low Light Vision, Darkvision 60ft

Devour, Every Last Bite
Poison: with successful Bite, DC 14, 1d6 Primary & Secondary Con damage, 3 uses/day
Ferocity
Language: Common (young boy voice, man voice)
All Martial Weapon proficiencies, dagger, club

Sorcerer Casting: Detect Magic 5/day (10% Arcane Spell Failure Chance)

Total skill bonuses (when higher than stat):
Jump +25
Balance +17
Swim +14
Hide +13
Move Silently +13
Spot +13
Listen +13
Handle Animal +7
Climb +6 (plus climb speed)
Disguise +5
Diplomacy +5
Bluff +5
Escape Artist +5
Knowledge (Local - Thurminham) +4
Survival +4 (+7 when tracking by scent)

Feats:
- Agile, Alertness, Athletic, Stealthy (+2/+2 skill feats)
- Skill focus: Bluff, Diplomacy
- Weapon Finesse
- Improved Initiative
- Great Fortitude
- Point Blank Shot
- Run
- Endurance
- Track

>LOOK INVENTORY
149 gp, 78 silver, 89 copper
Masterwork Knife, Cricket Bat, Longsword, Dwarven Waraxe (no proficiency)
Composite Longbow (+2 Str), 30 arrows
Leather Armor, Studded Leather Armor (no proficiency)
Decent Clothes (getting less decent)
20 ft + 50 ft rope
Scrolls: Calm Animals, Summon Nature's Ally I, Shield, Feather Fall, Magic Weapon
4 flasks of high proof alcohol
Potions: strength and speed
License to carry a longsword and longbow, made out to Soveliss, non-afflicted elf.

>>10212140
>>10212117
>>10212124
MY DAY JUST GOT BETTER. LET'S DO THIS SHIT.

"I think I've seen enough of this city. Where should we go from here?"

Lets rock.

>MY DAY JUST GOT BETTER. LET'S DO THIS SHIT.
Going to be a relatively short session tonight. Much as I tried, this was the soonest I could start.

Also on the list that people wanted to do:
>Heal, either by eating or by the church
>Find a place to rest, such as an inn, Borat's house, or the church
>Hunt lycanthropes
>Hunt things other than gators in the sewers
>Recon the wizards running the library

>"I think I've seen enough of this city. Where should we go from here?"
"We, huh? Sounds good to me. If you want to leave, then where to go depends on what your plans are.

Any objections to giving the scrolls to Claire and buying some extra arrows before we leave? And maybe buying some backpacks and camping supplies?

We need to do something about our appearance. Looking like one of two guards that disappeared while on duty is asking for trouble.

Agreed that we should leave the city, too; with us and the other guy killing and feeding, the locals are going to get paranoid in a hurry.

I say we don't leave the city yet. Just use it as a safe place to rest while we hunt. We don't have a great place to go from here, and we just took out our primary pursuers.

>>10212298
The fact that we hardly know anything about living in the outdoors, and Claire sure as hell doesn't.

>>10212124
Claire just took a level in badass.

"I.. don't think I have any plans. I just think if I stay here much longer, the city will begin tearing itself apart looking for me or something like me. I wouldn't mind keeping to forests with animals I could hunt but I imagine you'd get bored living like that."

No one seemed to care that the adventurers were squatting in this building, I say we take it as our new base of operations.

>>10212290
I just gained sentience a few weeks ago and you're asking ME where to go?
*chuckle*
anywhere you always wanted to see but was too busy too go to?

There are at least two doppleganger-like creatures that have been killing people in this city. We have no idea how many people the other guy has killed. Our own kill count is not small. We need to get out of here NOW before the shit hits the fan.

we should eat a hunter/expert outdoors-man and take his survival skill

>>10212452
But... chokers in the sewers! We can't leave until we eat one!

>>10212418
Seconding.

>>10212475
Wait, we know there are chockers in the sewers..? When did this happen?

>>10212290
after healing we should really go do some recon either of the sewers or of the wizards
oh and what does Every Last Bite do again?

>"What, go back to how things were? No. Fuck that. This made me realize something, Jack. Going through all the effort of learning magic just to use it to help people is a waste. I couldn't stop them from taking me; I couldn't keep them from hurting me. All that work was worthless. So screw helping people.

>No one is ever hurting me like that again."

And you wanted to kill her.

>>10212505
Every Last Bite lets us Regain a number of HP equal to the number of HD the creature we just ate had.

>>10212490
>>10212418
yeah... no one's going to check up on the fight... that place should be perfectly safe

in fact... did we eat all the corpses? including the rogue even if reverse vampy already ruined it

>>10212505
Seconding recon on wizards. Eats aprentices, work way up. Teach Claire our stolen magic, put wiz academy out of business.

>>10212533
I can't tell if you're being sarcastic or not and it scares me.

Guys, I'm not going to try to control this hivemind but I strongly suggest leaving town. When the guards are noticed missing, they will track from the guardstation we eat the guy to the adventurer's hole. And riling up wizards before we can take them out is also a bad idea.

>oh and what does Every Last Bite do again?
Normally you recover 1 HP per meal. This means for bigger meals, with multiple HD creatures, you get HP back equal to the number of HD they had. So a 3 HD creature gives you 3 HP.

>in fact... did we eat all the corpses? including the rogue even if reverse vampy already ruined it
You cleaned up the gore, though there's still ample blood splatters throughout the room.

Quite the split in what you want to do. Shall we first to 3 it?
>Heal, and hunt in sewers
>Heal, and recon wizards
>Heal, and rest in safehouse
>Heal, and leave the city

I think the first order of business is getting healed up. I say we go to the church as that might yield info in addition to restored HP.

Before we do that though, have a look around the block for our missing kitten.

so does >>10212517 mean that we are allowed to nom people again?

>>10212491
It's been said for sure that worse things than gators are deeper in the sewers, and I swear that chokers have either been mentioned or alluded to.

>>10212615
Healing and sewers, we just need to get a little stronger now, then we can GTFO.

>>10212615
Heal and leave city.

>>10212661

Agreed, heal, then do some sewer hunting to get beefed up a little for the wilderness.

Healing, sewers.

>>10212606
agreed
hire a huntsman to find a leopard / lynx / other big cat for the list
then nom him when the hunt is done
don't return to the city

>>10212621
Let's bring it up. Mention that we had to in order to escape and save her.

lets eat those wizards who were overcharging asshats to our friend

Chokers are always being brought up because some Anon has a chubby for the Quickness (Su) ability to have two standard actions a around. AFAIK, we don't even know about chokers in game, let alone have heard any rumors about their locations.

rolled 18 = 18

>"What, go back to how things were? No. Fuck that. This made me realize something, Jack. Going through all the effort of learning magic just to use it to help people is a waste. I couldn't stop them from taking me; I couldn't keep them from hurting me. All that work was worthless. So screw helping people.

Use this to begin to change her mind about us nomming people, claim that we can strike against the wizards and help her get stronger in magic

>>10212772
fuck yea they were dicks + loot them

Remember how our fight with the sorcerer went? We have no protection against spells. You don't sit on top of thousands of GP of magical goods without having some way to defend yourself from brute force.

Heal, gain camping supplies/other supplies, leave the city.

leave town

>so does >>10212517 mean that we are allowed to nom people again?
>Let's bring it up. Mention that we had to in order to escape and save her.
"Yeah, I figured you had a reason. I can't fault you for your methods anyways, not after you pulled me out of that hole. And if anyone deserved to get eaten, it was those bastards. I get that you have to eat, just--can you make sure it's people who deserve it? And if nothing else then please, nobody I know? You saved my life and I won't forget it. But I don't want to be the girl who brought doom upon everyone she knew."

>Healing and sewers, we just need to get a little stronger now, then we can GTFO.
Sewers it is, once you're not at risk of death. Time for a round of nom the small animals? Or prefer to head to a church? You could also get bed rest and slowly heal up that way if you want to keep a low profile.

>>10212893
Just pick off small animals. Its faster, and we WONT GET QUESTIONED FOR LOOKING LIKE A GUARD THAT WAS JUST KILLED AND LOOKING COMPLETELY DIFFERENT FROM THE LAST TIME WE WENT THERE

>>10212865
I remember the second half, where we weren't retarded and ambushed him. He couldn't do shit to us then.

I suggest we go to the Pelor temple and try to get healed and out with the minimum fuss and a moderate donation. Hopefully we aren't someone the priest recognizes and we don't want him to remember our voice (Hence we aren't going to our normal priest).

>>10212914
Killed? No we weren't killed. We're right here! Clearly. The guard can't be dead because the guard is us!

>>10212893
church makes for a cleaner getaway
less time for things to get worse, less attention than stalking rodents

Claire moving closer to NE
Delish!

>>10212977
She was LN with good sprinkled on before right? So now she's TN leaning towards NE?

>>10213011
i think she was NG

Operation Convert Claire to the Dark side: Phase 1 complete.

>I suggest we go to the Pelor temple and try to get healed and out with the minimum fuss and a moderate donation.

You head to the church of Pelor, Claire in tow. She could use a look at those burns, and those bruises aren't exactly a great way to avoid attention.

You see the balding, rotund priest of Pelor inside. "Ah, Darrin! Good to see you; how's the wife? And who's this?" He gets a closer look at Claire's bruises and exclaims, "You poor girl! Are you all right? Just a moment; I'll have you looking better before you leave here." Drawing you aside, he whispers, "I hope you gave her pimp a proper beating for this."

>She was LN with good sprinkled on before right?
More or less.

great i knew this would happen

>>10213081
yeah, I gave them a good licking, think they were part of a bigger group though, might have to skip town for a while
tell my wife I love her and all that

>>10213081
Lol'd
I think we should visit the sewers at least once more for crocs and possibly a choker.

Also, Just in case a showdown with the other warlock/bloodjumper dude is in our future, I think we need to start jacking up our fort saves.

>>10213081
nod, moan get healed leave donation walk away like tired, leave town!!

Pretend like they made you mute

>>10213116
That sounds incredibly sketchy. Don't do this, we want him to think nothing unusual happened.

Now that someone recognized us (I fucking told you), we need to skip out as soon as possible.

>>10213116
this amusing taking the appearance also means the voice

eat everyone

>>10213150
Good call! We don't have his voice.

Make like we took a punch to the throat, pantomime for healing for us and Claire.

>>10213159
That just means they think the guy we ate is alive. No harm done. We're headed to the sewers afterward, already voted on.

>>10213081
Shake head grimly, try to look world weary. A guard who's seen too much today and doesn't want to talk. Remember, we don't have the voice to match the face we're wearing, a face with which the priest is obviously famiiliar.

>>10213199
healing would fix the voice problem though, unless they cut out our tongue...

>>10213081

Well this is awkward, do we get the guy's voice?

>>10213208
You assume that we get out of this alive. Seriously, why are we even risking the sewers when we could have a bunch of guards, adventurers, or (now) priests swarm us at any moment? We need to get out, some shit in the sewers be damned. Anything in there will probably kill us anyways.

>>10213081
Make a noncommittal grunt and hold your side like you're hurt, which we are. A precursory heal check should show that we've taken a beating that would kill most people and are barely mobile.

>Pretend like they made you mute
>Good call! We don't have his voice. Make like we took a punch to the throat, pantomime for healing for us and Claire.

"Ow, that must sting. I'll give both of you the prayers, you should be talking fine again by morning." He prays over you several times.
>1d8+2=7
>1d8+2=4
>1d8+2=10
Current HP: 22/28

"That last prayer, Pelor's blessing was clearly flowing to you. I'm sure you'll be right as rain in no time."

He starts tending to Claire. "Don't worry my dear, the guards' healing contract with us covers people they bring in while on duty. We at the church won't expect a donation for the service, though Pelor deserves all the thanks we who receive his blessings can spare."

>>10213296
Give him a small donation, then leave.

Where's XIII?

Give him a nod of appreciation then GET OUT OF TOWN BEFORE MORE PEOPLE RECOGNIZE YOU

>>10213314

Make it seem as if we're dredging up a last few spare coins, then hoarsely whisper "Thanks, that pimp was a real asshole."

Also fuck year DD

We will be hard pressed to get more healing in this town the longer we stay. GTFO.

>>10213332
still the wrong voice...

rolled 62 = 62

I'm taking the invitation from yesterday.
this is running on 3.5 D&D rules right?

>>10213314
this.

TO THE SEWERS!!!

>We're headed to the sewers afterward, already voted on.
Correct, unless a minor errand or other action is preferred first.

>Well this is awkward, do we get the guy's voice?
No.

>Where's XIII?
Here's the entire list, XIII at the bottom: http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive.html?tags=Doppleganger

>>10213340

Thats why we whisper, trying to disguise our voice.

>>10213355
no we have been playing mute

>>10213355
Its an unnecessary risk. Don't do it.

Just nod our thanks and leave. No sense in risking it.

Go with majority then. Nod our thanks, take Claire and gtfo.

Sense we seem to be doing the foolish thing of going into the sewers, shall we give Claire some money so she can buy some supplies for herself while we do so? She sort of just lost everything she owned.

I think we have a minor errand... in another town.. with sewers.

>This is running on 3.5 D&D rules right?
Yes.

>Give him a small donation, then leave.
"We will put it to good use, Darrin. I appreciate your willingness to help us despite no obligation to do so. Give your wife my regards."

>TO THE SEWERS!!!
Once you've left, you tell Claire that you intend to go hunting in the sewers beneath the city. "At that rate, people are going to appreciate your appetite, heh. Where would you like me to wait for you? I don't have any coin on me, unfortunately, though I've got plenty to do," she says, holding up the spellbook. Hmm, now that you think about it, she didn't have it inside the church with her--no wonder the priest didn't think she was anything other than a beaten prostitute. She might be more clever than she seemed.

>>10213446
"Would you like some coin? Currently I have no use for it. Here." (Offer letting her hold onto our savings for now - all but 30 GP for emergency money).

rolled 95 = 95

>>10213446
give her 60 GP and suggest that she buys some decent traveling equipment, and ask her if she can find either a good ranger, or a large predatory cat for sale or hire.

Honestly, I'd say we give her all of the gold and tell her the adventurers had it and to buy herself whatever she needs. Oh and some spare arrows if she has enough left over. Then we find somewhere secluded, strip (so we don't ruin our decent clothes), hide the clothes somewhere and dive into the sewers.

>LOOK INVENTORY
149 gp, 78 silver, 89 copper
Masterwork Knife, Cricket Bat, Longsword, Dwarven Waraxe (no proficiency)
Composite Longbow (+2 Str), 30 arrows
Leather Armor, Studded Leather Armor (no proficiency)
Decent Clothes (getting less decent)
20 ft + 50 ft rope
Scrolls: Calm Animals, Summon Nature's Ally I, Shield, Feather Fall, Magic Weapon
4 flasks of high proof alcohol
Potions: strength and speed
License to carry a longsword and longbow, made out to Soveliss, non-afflicted elf.

Right.
>Masterwork knife
Give to Claire
>Cricket bat
Drop
>Longsword
Keep
>Dwarven Waraxe (no proficiency)
Sell
>Composite Longbow
Keep
>Crossbow
Give to Claire
>Leather armor
Wear
>Studded armor (no proficiency)
Give to Bodysnatcher or Sell if the bodysnatcher's fucked off already
>Worn Clothes
Wear
>20ft rope
Sell
>50ft rope
Keep
>4 flasks of high proof alcohol
Sell
>Potions: strength and speed
Keep
>License to
Drop

Scrolls: Can the doppleganger use these yet?

>>10213471
Eh, I'll change my 'vote' to this to speed things up. Then stripe and sewer dive.

>>10213503
Sounds like a good plan.

give her our coin and ask her to buy supplies for the journey

Quest cancer

Oh, that reminds me. Give Claire the scrolls as well.

>>10213527

Let's give the scrolls to Claire. Least we can do, I'm assuming she still burns with passion for the arcane.

>>10213549
2'nd

Inb4 she gets pickpocketed/mugged

>>10213585
I pity the pickpocket that upsets us. I really do. A handful of gold isn't worth your life, blood and soul.

>>10213585

Unless they're magical bandits, I think they're gonna have trouble with Claire here.

rolled 19 = 19

>>10213503

better plan, use this.

>>10213585
if she does then we eat the criminal element of this city

>>10213585
I'd hate to be the mugger that tried to mess with Claire right now.

>>10213549
>>10213560
>>10213563
Works for me. Claire will know what to do with spell scrolls.

Buy a bunch more arrows - 220 will be enough, for a total of 250. That many arrows can drop a Bear, and we -are- going to need to drop a Bear at some point in our lives.

AFTER the sewers, see what can be done about hiring a Tracker or a Hunter or a Ranger to find some specific animals. An Owl has massive move silently. A Badger has a burrow speed. Spiders have lots of good stuff. A predatory cat has pounce and rake. Brown bears have incredibly powerful claws.

>>10213602
that right there is an exotic weapon and we don't have any exotic weapons proficiencies

>"Would you like some coin? Currently I have no use for it. Here." (Offer letting her hold onto our savings for now - all but 30 GP for emergency money).
>Honestly, I'd say we give her all of the gold and tell her the adventurers had it and to buy herself whatever she needs. Oh and some spare arrows if she has enough left over. Then we find somewhere secluded, strip (so we don't ruin our decent clothes), hide the clothes somewhere and dive into the sewers.
>Oh, that reminds me. Give Claire the scrolls as well.
You hand over all but 30 of the gold, and the scrolls for good measure. "Arrows aren't going to be cheap with the regulations on certain weapons, especially since I'm not licensed, but I'll see what I can do." She heads off.

You find a secluded sewer grate and leave your clothing hidden nearby, the rest of your possessions in and on the pack you carry will just have to get dirty.

In you go!

Dammit, why is it that the one night that I finally catch a DD thread, it's when I'm swamped in work and Bloodquest is up too?

Nom any rats along the way of course to top off our HP. Go deep.

>>10213658
That's what tabs are for. As for work... sucks.

Nom rats and stay vigilant. Try to hover around easy exits in case we need to escape.


Inb4 something nearly kills us

Cast Detect Magic at the darkness.

>>10213650
Roll that spot.
Roll that listen.
Roll that move silently.
Roll that hide.
Roll that Track by scent.

>>10213629
1) I doubt we can find a much better survivalist than ourselves for cheap.
2) In character, we don't know what animals those 'sweet bonuses' just like how we have never heard of a choker. We can't sic a tracker on 'something with pounce'.
3) We're trying to keep a low profile. Failing, but we're trying. Eating things whole in front of sharp-eyed trackers isn't a good way to do that.

>>10213706
This is probably a good idea. Even if we only sense ambient background magic, it'll at least tell us "Hey dumbass, it's an ordinary sewer." which means we won't have to worry about leprechauns.

>>10213650
try to keep on the walls or at least out of the water
here be crocs, mate

>>10213735
Sense when have we been playing In Character? We've been doing stuff without thinking about us IC for all fourteen threads.

>>10213735
Roll bluff and tell the tracker that my GOD do you have the diarrhea and that if you ever run out of line-of-sight you're probably just shitting yourself in a bush somewhere.

Carry corpses with you.

Tell tracker you're extracting the sellable reagents from the corpses and just dumping the rest of the body as you have no use for it.

>>10213780
hunter would probably want to skin it / butcher it if you're just gonna leave it

>>10213735
In character, the doppleganger knows that:
There is such a thing as a 'big cat'
This 'big cat' can kill things by ripping it apart.
"ripping it apart" is a good trait to have.
Nom!
There is such a thing as a 'spider'.
They are highly venomous, and often derp about in webs.
Both of these are good traits to have.
Nom!
I don't think the Doppleganger has a high enough bear lore to know that Bears prefer to attack with their natural weapons, though.

Eh, I guess I have an imaginary line in the sand for metagaming and hunting for chokers and pounce is across that line.

Thanks for running this TempDM. Sorry that you'll be suffering when Reveille plays but thanks.

>>10213798
Then I propose an experiment.
In the sewer, kill something.
But do not eat it.
Eat it 3 hours after the kill was made.

Right now, we now the doppleganger cannot eat things that were killed a while ago by other people. But we don't know if the Doppleganger has to make the killing blow, or if the kill has to be fresh. It could be BOTH.

rolled 5 = 5

>>10213798
>>10213780
>>10213735
giving the tracker a good stab in the back while claire distracts him might be a good option. if we get a choker then all is the better with the quickness.

alternately cutting his throat might do a bit of good.

>Dammit, why is it that the one night that I finally catch a DD thread, it's when I'm swamped in work and Bloodquest is up too?
Because of Murphy. I can't run it for much longer tonight anyways.

>Nom any rats along the way of course to top off our HP. Go deep.
No mere gators this time, you've got bigger prey in mind. The rats aren't plentiful, but you see a pair fighting over a scrap of food. And then they are food.

Current HP: 24/28

>Cast Detect Magic at the darkness.
You try your newfound magic for the first time, reciting the phrase locked into your memory and moving your hand almost on its own accord.
>1d100=8 Arcane Spell Failure Chance
>1d100=46 Arcane Spell Failure Chance
Your first attempt at magic fails with a sputter as your arm catches on the leather armor. You adjust the strap, and the second time goes off without a hitch. Seeing like this is an odd feeling, especially when--hey, that's something unusual. It looks like an ordinary feather just floating in the water, but there's a faint aura about it. Something to look more into later, perhaps. You don't see anything else, though.

As you go farther into the sewer, you see the murky water and debris slowly pouring down into a second level underneath. Looks like it's a different style of carving. A quick look, and you should be able to leap back up to the first level, if the water down there isn't too deep.
>1d20+13=24 Listen
You hear what might be a chirping down below.

Action?

>>10213844
That sounds like an experiment we can preform in another city in a safer environment.

>>10213844
Capture a Rat and have Claire kill it (for crossbow practice) then eat it fresh.
Kill another Rat and wait a while before eating it.
Observe which rat (if any) has the same 'taste' as the rats that traits were absorbed from.

Goddamn, I never catch these threads before they end up on the archives. Since I caught this one, I just wanted to say TempDM that you are awesome for continuing this quest and you should feel awesome!

Also, eat more crocodiles!

>>10213866
Draw the bow and sneak closer.

>>10213866
It's a trap!
Take 10, climb down wall slowly, rollin' dat Hide, Move silently, Spot, Listen, and Track.

We should turn around and give up

>In character, the doppleganger knows that:
>There is such a thing as a 'big cat'
>This 'big cat' can kill things by ripping it apart.
>"ripping it apart" is a good trait to have.
>Nom!
>There is such a thing as a 'spider'.
>They are highly venomous, and often derp about in webs.
>Both of these are good traits to have.
>Nom!
>I don't think the Doppleganger has a high enough bear lore to know that Bears prefer to attack with their natural weapons, though.

You made me crack up so hard. Thank you.

>Thanks for running this TempDM. Sorry that you'll be suffering when Reveille plays but thanks.
Thanks for playing, you guys are just as much responsible for this being fun. And yeah, I will be. I need to be alert tomorrow, so I'm going to end the session shortly; I did say it was going to be a short one tonight.

Crocs are still a tough kill for the doppleganger - they don't die easy, and they hit hard.

>>10213866
what sort of aura

Keep yer goddamn eyes open

>>10213885
Yeah, I also forgot to mention: Fuckin' awesome job TempDM. I've been heavily considering running a similar quest for just my gaming group as a kind of filler between sessions when we can get together.

Also, approach carefully. The crocodiles were far from the least dangerous things down here. This is probably a Balor with a anglerfish-type attachment that makes bird noises, with my luck.

rolled 2 = 2

>>10213866
tie rock to end of rope, use it to plumb the depths.

if you hear a tunk sort of noise then the water is a safe depth, tug=FOOD no noise= unknowable depths

>>10213972
idk it might be a Cockatrice down there

>>10213997
>it might be a Cockatrice down there
...
Ffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffff
DO NOT EAT.
VERY DO NOT EAT.

>>10214026
okay, i must've failed my roll or something...whats so bad about cocatrices?

>>10214026
huh? what do cockatrices do in D&D?

>Draw the bow and sneak closer.
You draw your new bow and--aw man. Not AGAIN. Wet bowstring, really? You console yourself about forgetting to get a waterproof sheath with the thought that you were supposed to remember to get one for the CROSSBOW--clearly, that's why you forgot, and why the bow is going to be firing like crap. Well, range is range.

Take 10, climb down wall slowly, rollin' dat Hide, Move silently, Spot, Listen, and Track.
>1d20+0 Search=11
Taking a long time to sit and observe shows that there's nothing moving nearby the pseudo-waterfall. You hear another few chirps from the same direction as before.

>tie rock to end of rope, use it to plumb the depths.
>if you hear a tunk sort of noise then the water is a safe depth, tug=FOOD no noise= unknowable depths
>1d100=23 (Rollan' for random chance of another effect occurring)
You come up with a clever idea, and are rewarded with a tunk sort of noise. Shouldn't be more than chest deep here, and you can swim well, even if you can't breathe underwater.

>>10214099
>>10214089
They look at you and you die.

>>10214100

Sure lets go swim in the sewer water infested with magical creatures and alligators. Sounds like a good plan to me guys. What about you? /sarcasm

Kill Cockatrice.
Don't Nom.
Use as Weapon!

>>10214122
They turn you to stone, actually, but that's just about as bad. Heck, we don't even want their ability, since we can't eat things we turn to stone.

>>10214146
Or can we?

>>10214122
at will or automatically?
as in, can they turn it off if they feel like looking at people and NOT kill them
cause that sounds like a pretty awesome nom...

>>10214089
>>10214099
>>10214122
petrification (Su)

succeed on a DC 12 Fortitude save or instantly turn to stone. The save DC is Constitution-based.

>>10214099
>>10214089

DC 12 Fort save Petrification on successful bite.
They have +9 on their Bite attacks.

And the only thing they really offer is the Dodge feat, since I doubt we'll get traits from eating something petrified.

>>10214198
+7 reflex save

>>10214216
We already have +7 Reflex, unless ours is including Dex and/or the Cockatrice's isn't.

rolled 10 = 10

>>10214100
continue, moving slowly, towards the chirp.

rolling move silently?

Oh TempDM, how worn my F5 is going to become.

>>10214198
at least Cockatrice don't have gaze attacks

>>10214295
True. And double checking, they also have a +5 BAB, which is very nice for us.

>>10214122
They are DANGEROUS MOTHERFUCKERS.
Though petrify-at-will is good if, for example, there's 2 creatures together but we're only strong enough to take on 1. It's like crowd control, but more Solid.

>>10214358

rolled 14 = 14

>>10214358
and you can make use of the petrified creature to hide behind to evade attacks.

also SPOT CHECK CEILING I taught this to my friends the fun way, but most predator animals never learn the habit of, looking up.

then something falls out of a tree and bites your face.

Find a rat and throw it down. Lets do some fishing of our own.

>>10214420
where's a 10ft pole when you need one

>Rolling move silently?
>10+13=23
I'll use it, sure, but I usually just roll outside the thread on a dice roller because it makes things go much faster, especially during combat.

>Continue, moving slowly, towards the chirp.
You drop down to the second level with a quiet splash. The hunt is on.

And unfortunately, this is where I have to be a tool and call it quits for the night. Wish I could keep running it for a while longer, but I can't. Should be able to run another thread within the next few days though, and it should be a longer one too.

If someone could archive this when sup/tg/ is back up for the night, I'd appreciate it. Feel free to keep discussing/plotting/suggesting actions, as before I'll try to incorporate those posts into the next thread.

rolled 4 = 4

>>10214479

>>10214479
That's kool. Thanks TempDM. Great stuff as always, even if it's a just a tiny bit of D&D.

Crap. Well as always, thanks for running TempDM.

inb4 powergamers get us BAD END'd next thread

rolled 15 = 15

I say we devote this thread to the discussion of monsters that we want to kill and take the powers of.

rolled 1 = 1

>>10214554
>say we devote this thread
say we devote THE REST OF this thread

>>10214479
If it's a Balor with an anglerfish antenna that makes bird noises, I won't even be angry about dying. That's just fucking awesome now that I think about it.

>>10214554
Blink Dog. 640 ft dimension door once per round as a free action. NOMing one is going to be a bitch though.

>>10214554
Badger burrow speed 10ft
Monkey climb speed 30ft
Spider poison vs Str, web attack, tremorsense.
Scorpion stinger, constrict attack, improved grab, tremorsense.
Centipede +8 racial hide, poison vs. Dex, +8 racial climb.
Owl +14 move silently racial.
A predatory cat Pounce, Rake
Crocodile Bite, Improved Grab.
Boar armor
Ape Strength, claws.
Bear Strength, claws.

>If it's a Balor with an anglerfish antenna that makes bird noises, I won't even be angry about dying. That's just fucking awesome now that I think about it.
Hmmm... the more I think about it, the better it gets.

>>10214545
>>10214534
>>10214498
Thanks for playing. Wish I could run more tonight, but if wishes were horses we'd all be eating steak. I'll be around for a couple minutes while I pack stuff up for the night.

Choker for its extra standard action.

>>10214685
Just tell me.
On a scale of 1 to 10, how Fucked is the doppleganger right now?

>>10214669
hunting Spiders +10 racial bonus on Jump

>>10214554

Rust monster.

>>10214685
I know, right? The more you think about it, the more hilarious and awesome it gets. Maybe it burrows or something, so you just see the bird on the ground.

>Just tell me.
>On a scale of 1 to 10, how Fucked is the doppleganger right now?

This is one of those wonderful moments where the DM just looks at you and grins.

its archived so go vote
http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive.html

>>10214766
GAME OVER MAN, GAME OVER!

rolled 5 = 5

>>10214669
we got a sneak attack yet?

what kind of challenge ratings ya'll think we can take?

>>10214840
nope no sneak attack our ally last thread ate the rogue

>>10214840
CR:1s and below are safe.
CR:2s are doable at full health, with use of daily abilities, attacking only when favorable to us, and proper tactics.

rolled 16 = 16

bodak:::::::::::death gaze.
carrion crawler:::::::::::paralysis
>>10214901
fuck...

>>10214840
I'd say we can pull off a CR:3 or CR:4 if we're careful, clever, and a bit lucky. Also, we ideally want full health and full stealth.

Keep in mind that the CR system was designed for a party of 4 having an average of 4 encounters per day. We're a single individual who has a wildly varying number of encounters. CR:1s and below are quite safe for us, though.

>>10214956
The doppleganger is level 4, but his hitdice and attack damage aren't the best.
Last thread, we dueled what appeared to be a 2nd level Ranger, and had the upper hand, but not by much.
The Doppleganger is CR 2.5 to CR 3 now.

>>10214766
>This is one of those wonderful moments where the DM just looks at you and grins.

...so an 11 then

rolled 15 = 15

>>10214981
then the carrion crawler is not totally out of the question, and they live underground...

but does this mean that we have to grow a tentacle?

>>10214981
Aye. We're going to exploit the fact that we MOVE LIKE TEN MOTHERFUCKERS to kill melee-only opponents with ranged weapons. Two Brown Bears will give us 27 str and extremely powerful claws; Two Predatory Cats of some description will give us Pounce and Rake (effectively 4 more claw attacks on a charge).

>>10215000
We also did that after taking a sneak attack hit from a rogue.

Apparently quest threads are against the rules now. Brace for incoming deletion!

On tomorrow's agenda: BAD END.

>>10215051
WHAT? SINCE WHEN?

>>10215040
We're planning to kill a Choker but we don't know if those exist in this world or not.
If we do kill the choker, bears, and cats, the Doppleganger takes a leap from his (rough) CR of 2.5 to a CR of 5, easily.
Charge attack -> Pounce (2 claws, 1 bite) + Rake (2 claws) using up 1 full action, then the Choker's free action we use to Move away.
Result: 4 claws and 1 bite every motherfucking round, with powerful motherfucking claws, and ending up 60ft away from whatever plans to counterattack.
Compare to currently: 1 claw, 1 bite.

>>10215087
>Board games, paper games, war games, card games, etc. go here!
Roleplaying games have firmly parked their asses here, that'd include quest threads.

Shocker Lizards

rolled 8 = 8

>>10215270
for what?

>>10215119
Jeez. I thought we'd just double full attack, but that's fricking nasty.

Darkmantle for there 90ft Blindsight

>>10215321
shits and giggles?

>>10215321
pets and Lethal Shock

>>10215270
unwise. those things travel in packs, and that piddly little 1d4 lightning damage hurts like fuck when there's 50 of them

>>10215389
Solitary, pair, clutch (3-5), or colony (6-11)
Lethal Shock (Su)

Whenever two or more shocker lizards are within 20 feet of each other, they can work together to create a lethal shock. This effect has a radius of 20 feet, centered on any one contributing lizard. The shock deals 2d8 points of electricity damage for each lizard contributing to it, to a maximum of 12d8. A Reflex save (DC 10 + number of lizards contributing) reduces the damage by half.

rolled 13 = 13

small and medium elementals might make stuff interesting...

ettercap::::::::::web.
CR:3

>>10215414
...okay, my DM was talking out of his ass on that one, apparently.
the fuckers still nuked most of the party before we could run for it

Dryads :
Cha 18 Int 14
Escape Artist +11, Handle Animal +11, Hide +11, Knowledge (nature) +11, Listen +9, Move Silently +11, Ride +6, Spot +9, Survival +9, Use Rope +4 (+6 with bindings)
Great Fortitude
At will entangle (DC 13), speak with plants, tree shape; 3/day charm person (DC 13), deep slumber (DC 15), tree stride; 1/day suggestion (DC 15). Caster level 6th. The save DCs are Wisdom-based.

>>10215343
Actually, we attack on the Charge, don't we?
We can't actually be wielding anything to get the Rakes off, so we'd have to Claw or Bite, but still.
And I suppose we could use the Choker's extra action to bite if we wanted a MAXIMUM STIRKE.

Imagine this:
1d3 Str damage from a spider
1d3 Dex damage from a centipede
1d6 Con damage from a snake
And all of these have a secondary for the same effect.
We bite 3 times in one surprise round.
Next round, we can run away, using a full round action to run up to 4*speed (240 feet) in a straight line, then use the move action to move 60 feet in any direction.
Then we simply wait for the secondary poison to take its toll.

Down 6d6 con, 6d3 str and 6d3 dex, any enemy is a virtual freekill - and if it still isn't fucking dead we surprise attack it again.

>>10215660
>>10215119
>>10214613
O_O
6d6 Con, 3 bites and 4 claws of damage, and Ddooring away.
During a surprise round.
Fuck.

>>10215660
Actually as we have the Run feat, we can go 300' per round.

Dromite Challenge Rating: ½
Weapon Focus (longsword), Blind-Fight

>>10215660
That totally drains our poison sacs though.

>>10215852
find a cheetah
Sprint (Ex)

Once per hour, a cheetah can move ten times its normal speed (500 feet) when it makes a charge.

>>10215789
So like an Extra Fast Jaguar with arms and teeth as thick as a bear's, which fangs that inject you with the strongest poison, that then teleports away.
Also, it's really good at hiding and moving silently.
And it's intelligent.

So what would that bird in the sewers be?

>>10215943

My guess is a Grick. Those fuckers have beaks and aren't highly above our CR.

>>10215887
Being able to ABSOLUTELY DEMOLISH one thing per day is worth it.

>>10215891
>10 times move speed on a charge
Oh lawd.
So, from 600 feet out, we stab some hapless motherfucker with approximately twenty tons of Dead, then get out before anyone can even shoot back.

Crysmal
Challenge Rating:3
At will-control object, control sound, detect psionics, empty mind, mind thrust (2d10, DC 13*); 3/day- psionic dimension door
Damage reduction 5/bludgeoning
immunity to fire and cold

>>10215943
It's a Cockatrice and we are fucked.

>>10215966
i would rather fight a Cockatrice at least those don't have Damage reduction 10/magic

rolled 5 = 5

githzerai
3/day daze, feather fall, shatter,
+4 natural armor
spell resistance.

grimlock CR:1
immune to gaze attacks
blindsight.
>>10215909
whelp, theres my latest BBEG...

>>10215966
It:
Has a feather
Can chirp
Is magical
Is located on level 2 of the sewer.

>>10216085
or can fake a chirp

>>10216085
We don't know that feather belongs to it. Makes sense that it might, but we've jumped to some pretty big conclusions before and been HORRIBLY wrong.

rolled 18 = 18

hell hound CR:3
breath weapon

homunculus CR:1
better flying.

howler CR:3
quills, 1d4 on bit plus a -1 pain penalty to target
howl for what it's worth

any lycanthrope once we get some bad-ass abilities.

Claire: In Which Art Imitates Life
A Study of How "But I Can Change Him!" Fails

>>10216282
Or before. I want lycanthrope so we can get Alternate Form/Alter Self/whatever it's called.

Then we wouldn't have to worry about a changing appearance. We'd be all normal-looking until we shifted into OHFUCKWHATISTHAT shape.

>>10216282
for us to get better flying the creature eaten must be medium size or bigger

rolled 7 = 7

>>10216347
fuck.

we could probably eat a dragon Wyrmling of most colors.

rolled 3 = 3

>>10216347
what did we kill for what we already have?

>>10216688
from thread one:
You then eat your way through the few birds she has. You develop a membrane under your arms. You don't think you'll be able to properly fly just yet (you'll have to eat a medium sized or larger flying creature for that), you will be able to glide just fine.

I'll point out we are proficient with the waraxe if we wield it in two hands. That's 1d10+6 damage, right there; between the waraxe and the longsword, the cricket bat is just plain redundant.

>>10216784
the bat can be thrown Range Increment 10ft and is our only source of Bludgeoning Damage if we run into skeletons.

>>10216848
That's true, I suppose.

>>10216829
>>10216849
any dragon above Wyrmling will kick our ass

>>10216898
Even Wyrmlings still possess the Dragon type, though, which is definitely something we want. 1d12 hit dice, fighter BAB, monk saves... vastly superior to the d6 hit dice and wizard BAB we have now.

rolled 11 = 11

>>10217017
indeed.

>>10216848
>>10216885
>>10216784
Plus, you know, it's our bat. We have a lot of history with the thing.

rolled 17 = 17

>>10217077
suppose we can get it enchanted by a wizzard later?

>>10217017
wait, what the fuck is our subtype? I had just assumed we started with shape changer subtype which is one of the nicest subtypes in 3.5

>>10217155
I think we're some unholy abomination of the Fey and Humanoid types, with all the worst features of both.

>>10217135
Well, if Claire gets a few levels under her belt...

>>10217234
speaking of fay gang(2-4) of Grigs would net us some nice bonuses.

Damage reduction 5/cold iron
Escape Artist +8, Hide +18
3/day-disguise self, entangle (DC 13), invisibility (self only), pyrotechnics (DC 14), ventriloquism (DC 13). Caster level 9th.

>>10217329
When you're looking at a monster's skills, you have to reverse-engineer them to figure out how many ranks there are.

In the case of the Grig, that's Craft (any one) 4, Escape Artist 4, Hide 4, Listen 2, Move Silently 1, Perform (string instruments) 4, Search 2, Spot 2.

>>10217421
but we can eat their racial bonuses as well

>>10217329
Personally, though, if we nommed few grigs, my vote would be for the DR, then the Dex 18, then the Spell Resistance 17 and then the Spell-like Abilities.

>>10217421
for the hide of +18 they get +8 for tiny and +2 for Stealthy
leaving a +8 ranks in hide what am i missing here?

>>10217575
They have a Dex of 18, for a +4 Dex bonus and 4 ranks.

>>10217466
eh we have 17 dex right now i'd rather grab the two spell likes 3/day-disguise self and 3/day invisibility

>>10217668
"Spell-like Abilities" is all one Special Attack, so we should get all of them if we nom one and choose them.

>>10217730
that may be but look at how TempDM handled the spell we got from the sorcerer.

Also on the list of monsters to nom: Imps, for Fast Healing 2, which would let us heal to full after every fight much more easily.

>>10217948
Anything with fast healing or regeneration is going to completely change things for us. No more cat buffet or running off to the church--we can eat things all day without stopping.

>>10218118
All night too, we have darkvision. Then we just need an elf for its 4 hours of sleep a night, and we're omming and nomming 20 hours out of every day.

what we need is a bag of holding

rolled 12 = 12

>>10218494
why?

>>10218521
we could stuff people/creatures in to save for later, also we could hide our illegal weapons in it

I propose leaving the city with Claire. There's nothing holding us here anymore. Search for appropriate destination, buy some supplies and head off. Maybe notify our friend.

Before leaving, we could break into a rich persons shop or house and steal some money and valuables. We should do it at night and have Claire waiting for us out side the city. Then we rejoin and continue the journey. We don't HAVE to do it, it's just an option.

Another thing that had occurred to me long time ago but never got to the quest to tell it, is that we could search for a site of major battles. Search for ongoing campaigns, wars between other countries. Travel there. And stalk a battlefield, when the fighting dies we might have hundreds of bodies to feast on.


And for this Cuckatoo-thing that can petrify in one sight. Could we leave it alone, please? DM WILL kill us if we botch this up, make no mistake. Just om nom some alligators.


Also, we should search for ways to make Claire magic better. Maybe have her dabble in forbidden magics like necromancy or some shit.