>>33516307
first

>>33516307
>Ride the Lightning to the ship (taking who?)
might as well take everyone. No one will be safe alone.

>>33516340
>autism
>>33516307
>Wait until pirate ship docks with yours (taking who? all companions)

lets not RTL in a storm guys

>>33516340
Leave.

>>33516307
>Sneak onboard with Gendric, Sofia and Jal
Bokin doesn't seem stealthy.
Reminder that RTL costs 5 divine energy for every person we bring and we have 27 max.

>>33516307
I think waiting until the pirate's are docked might be a bit risky, seeing how the docking places would be swarming with them.
RTL might also be a bad idea, with the Lightning core and all, but we don't know about how it actually works, if it like attracts all lightning nearby to it or something then that might be bad... or really good if the lightning core is the previously mentioned magical item.
Wings could be too obvious.

So I guess I'm just going to mention these points for other anons.

>>33516423
>>33516413
Ah, good points. Might be best to sneak aboard once the ship docks. mainly due to the cost of RTL. Also I would prefer to have everyone come with us. Last thing we need is someone getting raped or murdered while we are gone

>>33516307
Can we wait for the docking then head on over as a group?

>>33516307
Cant we dimension door once they get near?

>>33516474
Yes, that's the 2nd listed option

>>33516477
Yes, but DD only takes you on your own

>>33516507
How fast is Dimension door? Could we use it as a panic teleport from now on during fights, like we did with RTL against the slavers?

>>33516549
It's a spell, so it takes a normal action to use.

Ok, so most popular option appears to be, wait until docking then head over as a group, writing

>>33516584
>hint, it's not on yoir ship
I'm suddenly overwhelmed by paranoia.
Guys, what if we have to crush one or both of the ships, then crashland somewhere close to the item?

>>33516584

Can we cast it on others, perhaps together with scrying?
>chronosphere

You decide to wait until the pirate ship docks with yours, and then you will all head over together.
The pirate ship approaches the raises and lowers several flags, as does your ship.
Eventually something is agreed. A dozen winged forms launch themselves from the pirate ship and head towards yours, as they approach you can see they are humans and part-demons wearing harnesses with wings made from metal wire jutting from behind them. Tiny sparks play all over the wings.
They fly towards your ship and land on deck, giving orders to the crew and telling all passengers to go and wait in their cabins, that the pirate ship will be docking soon and that they should get their valuables ready.

You’ll need to decide where to go, whilst waiting for the pirate ship to dock, as the stormwing-equipped pirates are clearing the deck of people.

>Go wait in your cabin
>Hide somewhere on your ship
>Remain on deck, try to convince pirates you should be there
>Other

The Pirate ship is close now and its approach is slowing, you can see pirates on its decks reading grappling hooks and ropes. Electricity crawls across the entire ship, but seems more centered towards the lower decks of the pirate ship.

Around you the storm howls and heavy rain falls.

>>33516704
Yes, but each time DD allows only a single person to pass through. Multiple castings would be required to get everyone there and back.

>>33516706
>Hide

>>33516706
>Hide somewhere on your ship

>>33516706
Hide on our ship.

>Hide

Ok, roll 1d20 to hide, single roll for entire party

Rolled 4

>>33516774
first

Rolled 14

>>33516774

>>33516706
>harnesses with wings made from metal wire
Fry them with lightning.

Rolled 17

>>33516774

I think we need to try to find out more about this lightning core. If it is related to the storm god, what do we know about him? Would his followers/clerics be good-aligned? If so, they would probably be outlaws of some sort on this plane, and we could probably become friendly with them given that we're an angel with storm powers.

>>33516791
>“Supposedly the priests of the storm god could draw power from the ‘Core, a never-ending source of energy in a storm” he says “the stormwings were given to the gods warriors and had some different powers, lesse: flight, resistance to lightning, the ability to detect magic, something else, something else...” he trails off “either way, you’re going to see something that seldom graces the skies any longer, now must dash, need to hide the family jewels.” He bustles off.
>Gives them resistance to lightning
No.

>>33516785
dayum
Seems like we're about to get enslaved again.

>>33516793
pretty good, it's not like they're going to thoroughly search the ship, first things first, they're going to go to the cabins for the easy loot

>>33516706
RTL onto the pirate ship and assume angel form. Claim to be an avatar of the storm god and threaten to crash their ship if they don't do our bidding.

>>33516863
this.
For the love of god do this.

>>33516863
Changing my vote to this.

>>33516819
Storm flavored gods are almost always chaotic, and tend to be neutral or evil.
He could be a god of freedom just as easily, however, so I agree that we should find out.

I think these guys are just pirates using leftover magical artifacts of the god's followers.

>>33516863
We have no idea if they even worship the god that their things are supposedly made from, divine abilities are possibly traps, and that vote is already over.

>>33516863
We have the Lightning Halo, so this might actually work.
Do this.

>>33516863
How is the pirates' appearence, do they look like someone worshipping good gods or just like any other criminal? Should we roll for fellowship or something?

>>33516888
>>33516911

I don't know. It's awesome, but very unpaladinlike to impersonate a deity.

>Success
You and your companions hide in a room on one of the lower decks. You feel an impact as the pirate ship is dragged into contact with yours, pirates come aboard but do not find you.

You peer out of a porthole and see pirates ferrying loot from the passenger ship to the pirate ship, the two ships are held together with ropes, some at deck level but a few have clearly been thrown from the lower portholes of one ship to another, the portholes are open, its a tight squeeze but any of you except Bokin could make it.

If you don’t act now, the pirates will be gone. You could use magic to get across, or try to sneak on deck and climb across the higher ropes, or climb along the lower ropes and squeeze into a porthole.

How will you get onto the pirate ship?

>Use Dimension Door to get everyone across
>Ride the Lightning (open porthole counts) - pretending to be avatar of storm god optional
>Go up on deck, sneak across high ropes (might get spotted by pirates)
>Climb across lower ropes into portholes (less chance of getting spotted, but if you fall, you’re miles up in the air) - Bokin cannot do this
>Other

>>33516863
>Thinks the part-demon pirates are the servants of a good god, if they even serve a god at all
topkek

>>33516963
>Use dimension door to get everyone across
Start with Gendric.

>>33516931
Well, we have lightning powers out the arse so I guess he is more of a Zeus type in this setting.

>>33516963
Forgot to add, pirates are going back and forth on two long walkways laid over ships rails.

Using the rails means you will get spotted, so I didn't list it as an option, but you could fight your way across if you want.

>>33516963
>Use Dimension Door to get everyone across
I really do like the idea of RTL, but its just soooo easy for that to simply not work at all, or go badly.

Ride the Lightning (open porthole counts) - pretending to be avatar of storm god optional

>>33516980
What.
That doesn't even make sense.
Did you not read the archives?
There can be multiple gods, and our lightning powers come from us being exposed to crazy-powerful storm elemental mana due to our mother being a diplomatic envoy to the Storm Court when she was carrying us.
It has nothing to do with any gods.

>>33516963
Do we have the juice to DDoor people across? Do that.

>Ride the Lightning (open porthole counts) - pretending to be avatar of storm god optional
Do this.

>>33516963
>Climb across lower ropes, use DD to get Bokin through porthole
Do you guys we manage not to fall? Gendirc will probably be fine, maybe ven Jal too, and we can fly, but I don't think we can carry Bokin.

>Ride the Lightning (open porthole counts) - pretending to be avatar of storm god optional

We could try to redeem the crew.
And there is also that magical artifact...

>>33516963

>Dimension doors

How big is that thing? If we deal with the pirates, we can just walk back aboard.

>>33517033
>>33517010
>>33517051

Guys please. This is a world of demons where literally almost no one believes gods even ever existed. Lets not fuck ourselves over by using Holy magic (RTL) and appearing as an angel surrounded by pirates

>Ride the Lightning (open porthole counts) - pretending to be avatar of storm god optional
Go epic or go home.

>>33517027
Assuming we need to cast Scrying and DD once each per person, it takes 20 AE.
We can do it and still have 14 left.
RTLing everybody would take 21 DE.

>>33516963
>Dimension door

>>33517079
>posibly ruining all our efforts so far in enemy territory
yeah, no.

>>33517071
B-But we could redeem them.
Imagine having a whole airship full of followers.

>>33517071
I agree with Mathias, this seems like a bad idea

>>33516963
>Dimension Door

>>33517124
Matthias was the werewolf.

>>33517122

You can't redeem people by deceiving them in first place. That has to bite you in the ass, by the power of plot.

>Ride the Lightning (open porthole counts) - pretending to be avatar of storm god optional

I want this to happen.

>>33517122
What if RTL gets drawn right into the core room?
Somebody would sense the burst of angel juice, we wouldn't be able to RTL out due to it just getting drawn back in, they probably don't worship the god, we can't redeem that many people so quickly, we'd have to fight everyone on the other ship even if this one surrenders to us, etc. etc.

>>33517124
>Mathias
>spelling it with one t
I love you anon.

Dimension Door it is, where do you want to go?

>Scry for Lightning Core, go there
>Scry for empty room, go there
>Blind DD into hold
>Blind DD into back of ship
>Blind DD into front of ship
>Blind DD onto deck

Note, you cannot DD into a solid object, spell would just fail, even a blind jump will get you into some open space.

Only a single scry spell is needed to use DD multiple times on the same location

>>33517172
>Scry for Lightning Core, go there

We are not taking the girls, are we? They are far too squishy for this, cannot handle themselves in a fight and don't seem the type to like dangerous situations.

>>33517145
We don't have to deceive them. We are an angel, we use storm magic and we were sent by a god.
I'm sure we can bend the rules some way, to get their respect without deceiving them too much.

>>33517172
>Scry for Lightning Core, if there are too many guys, Scry for nearby empty room.
>Go whichever.

>>33517146
We aren't Bokin, anon. We should think things through before we act. And once you do, I'm sure you'll realise how horrible that idea is.

>>33517172
Just a thought. What if the magical item Pally is talking about, is NOT the Lightning Core.
Could you tell us one way or another Pally? Cus if it isn't it'd certainly give us more reason to stay on the pirate ship

>>33517196
>Intentionally manipulating the truth in a way designed to make them reach a false conclusion.
>Not deception
Anon please.

>>33517172
>Scry for empty room, go there

>>33517172

>scry for empty room, go there
>regroup
>take the bridge

I don't think taking lightning core is a good idea. Is it keeping the ship afloat?

>>33517172
can we scry empty room in back of ship?

>>33517218
It is the Core. But I'm not saying anything else until you get there.

>>33517273
No it's just boosting the engines, the giant gasbag is keeping the ship in the air

Huh, a tie.

Please re-vote
1 - scry for Lightning Core, go there
2 - scry for empty room, go there

>>33517350
>1 - scry for Lightning Core, go there
No worries Pally. Just no sense in going around trying to search the whole ship for something thats not there

>>33517350
>1

>>33517350
>2
I feel like the lightning core might have negative effects on people that aren't resistant to lightning.
Therefore, it is a trap option.

>>33517350
1

>>33517350
2

>>33517350
1

>>33517350
in that case, we should just go alone, no jeed to take everyone if we can do a direct hit and run
maybe take Gendric because he's cool, but the others can stay

>>33517395
Gotta disagree with that.
We're not teleporting INSIDE the core, just into the room it is located in.
It's very unlikely that it would do any harm to us.

>>33517350
>scry for empty room, go there

I'm imagining the Lightning Core as something with huge tesla-coil like projections everywhere and lots of electricity sparking everywhere. Sounds like a place that's not too friendly. Even if that is not the case, there may be guards posted to make sure that nobody messes with it.

>>33517460
Could be magical radiation.
I'm also not worried about us, we're lightning resistant.

>>33517435
>>33517376
Mathrian, you left your trip and name on.

ok, roll 1d20+4 to scry lightning core

Rolled 8 + 4

>>33517488
c0r3d

Rolled 15 + 4

>>33517488

>>33517350

Going to empty room, especially for regrouping, would be safer. We could scry lightning core regardless though.

Just thought of something.
If the core is warded or has a sorcerer present they could detect our scrying and know someone's going to be boarding the ship.
Scrying the core was a trap option all along.

>>33517435
>>33517350

>>33517483
Not trying to samefag. everyone else went more final destination style and since I figured there'd be more votes that it would be better to got with a single number

Rolled 17 + 5

>>33517488

>>33517540
If it was final destination, I would've appreciated him mentioning that.
Makes me wonder if my vote did count and LC won because it had more votes, or my vote didn't and it should've been a second tie, at the least.

>>33517488
Can you let us reconsider who we take with us, please?

>>33517631
I hit submit before I saw final vote

>>33517642
Yes, that'll be next option

You gather your arcane energies and cast your senses outwards. It’s....hard to make out the room with the lightning core in it. The image in your head keeps distorting (Arcane Energy 32/34).

What you can see is a large metal engine, similar to the one in your own ship, steam is pouring from it and it seems to be running much faster than the one you’ve seen before. You think it has the lightning core within it, but the picture is too fuzzy to make out details.

You can see that there is a single man in the engine room, tending to the engine. You think the Lightning Core may interfere with nearby magic, you may be able to punch through the interference by using more power though.

>Dimension Door in anyway
>Dimension Door to empty room (after scrying)
>Other

>>33517697
>Dimension Door to empty room (after scrying)
I think it's safer to come in next door and bust in.

>>33517697
>Dimension Door in anyway
Increase the power


>>33517631
No idea. I was certainly expecting more than a total of 5 votes though, considering how much back and forth there was just a little earlier.

>>33517697
>>Dimension Door in anyway

>>33517697

>Dimension door to empty room

I'm torn between
>take everyone, commandeer the ship and walk back across gangplank
and
>go alone or with the elf to open doors and containers for us and leave rest behind, and make it a hit and run

>>33517697
>>Dimension Door in anyway
Also pretend to be an avatar of the storm god.

>>33517697
>Empty room

>>33517769
God damn it no

>>33517697
>Dimension door into the empty room
Guys, it's pretty clearly a trap option at this point.

>>33517697
>>Dimension Door in anyway

>>33517741

Having a ship of our own would be pretty cool, but we need a crew to fly it.
t
That's why I would suggeest to pull a ruse to get them to surrender.

voting over, roll 1d20+9 to dimension door in to engine room, also, please chose how much extra arcane energy you use, average of 3 options used

>>33517697
>>Dimension Door into Lightning Core

>>33517811
I second this, no reason to rush, we can probably take on 4 pirates on our own even if the lightning resistance is true, probably like 10 if we take Gendric with us

Rolled 16 + 9

>>33517838
We're using the Halo?
I thought that would give away the fact that we're an angel...

6

Rolled 7 + 9

>>33517838
+1 per port

Rolled 11 + 9

>>33517838
+3 energy

Almost forgot

Whoever goes in first needs to deal with engineer.

Who goes in first?

>Sireyi
>Bokin
>Gendric
>Jal
>Sofia

>>33517812

Angel of storm god would probably not work, for one. Furthermore it would go against our alignment. It would bite us in the ass when the crew figured out the truth. And finally it might damage or blow our cover.

Rolled 8 + 9

+5 Energy should get us in safely.

>>33517872
Gendric, he's best at close combat.

>>33517872
Gendric, tell him not to kill the guy, might meed it to get the core out of the engine

>>33517872

Gendric can go in and incapacitate him with flaming chains.

>>33517872
>Sireyi

>>33517889
I'm pretty sure the guy that wants storm avatar was just a very determined samefag and possibly one or two other guys.

None of the votes for RTL were within a minute of each other, even the ones before the official vote began.

Rolled 2 + 9

>>33517872
>Gendric
Use his burning shackles to restrain the engie

>>33517872
Gendric.

>>33517935
>Gendric
Use his chains to immobilize the engineer

Captcha: ALDACE chainss

>>33517924
At first I thought samefags gonna samefag, but then I saw on /pol/ that even the same-iest fag are often totally different people.

that said I'm not sure quest threads and /pol/ are equivalent.

You gather your arcane energies and open a doorway through to the engine room of the other ship. Gendric quickly dives through. It was easy opening that despite the interference (AE 27/34)

“Uh Sireyi? Says Sofia, pointing at your head, you have a storm on your head.”

You look up, your halo has appeared and is dancing with lightning. You didn’t make that happen.

Maybe being this close to the ‘Core is messing with your storm powers, in fact, there’s no maybe, you can feel your energies draining away (DE 26/27), lightning crackling around you.

All of your storm abilities beg to be released at once in a cascade of energy, like their power is trying to force their way out of your skin. You shut your halo off, you hope no one noticed the brief burst of divine energy it gave off.

Gendric is through safely. He can see the engineer in overalls and wearing thick goggles, he’s tightening a bolt on the vast smoky engine, muttering to himself. His back is to Gendric.

Gendric can feel wild magical energy in the air, using magic here might be difficult.

>Walk up behind engineer, take him captive with sword to throat
>Kill engineer
>take captive using burning chains
>wait for allies to arrive
>other

Roll 1d20, for happenings

Rolled 17

>>33518088
>Take captive using burning chains

Rolled 18

>>33518088
>take captive using burning chains

>>33518088
> in fact, there’s no maybe, you can feel your energies draining away (DE 26/27), lightning crackling around you.
>Gendric can feel wild magical energy in the air, using magic here might be difficult.
I called it.
It was a trap option.
Admittedly, nowhere near as bad as I thought it would be, and in the opposite direction, but still.

>Walk up behind him, hold him captive
Magic is difficult here.

Rolled 19

>>33518088
Capture him but dont' kill him.

Rolled 3

>>33518088

>capture him with the chains. It's probably some sort of spellcaster though.

Rolled 14

>>33518088
>roll to seduce engineer.

Burning Shackles 1d20+2

Wild Magic: Perils of the Arcane activate if any 1's at all are rolled.

Rolled 6 + 2

>>33518213

Rolled 3 + 2

>>33518213
OH BOY

Rolled 4 + 2

>>33518213

Come ON

Rolled 2 + 2

>>33518255
>>33518264
Too close...

Rolled 13 + 2

>>33518293
>>33518264
>>33518255
>>33518225
Good rolls

Rolled 5 + 2

>>33518255
>>33518264
>>33518293
wtf

>>33518213
Was the 1d20 roll to see what kind of Wild Magic we would risk, or for something else?

>>33518213
>>33518225
>>33518255
>>33518264
>>33518293
Holy crap. I leave for 5 minutes and we almost get a shit ton of ones.

>>33518213
Pally is Perils of the Arcane detailed anywhere as to what it actually does?

Rolled 6 + 2

>>33518213
I got this

>>33518344
The D20 for PotA would've been rolled after it was known whether we failed.
Flat 1d20 is usually some kind of luck or random encounter roll, probably to see if anyone wanders into the Lightning Core, in this case.

>>33518354
It should be.
Added to the error list for the end of thread.

>>33518354

It could polymorph caster into a penguin, or conjure up a giant donut

Rolled 17 + 2

>>33518386

Gendric summons his burning shackles and flings them towards the engineer, who by some unfortunate chance, steps aside just at that moment. The shackles hit the steam engine, causing it to crack and spew superheated steam everywhere (Gendric HP 44/46, AE 22/24).

The engineers yelps, turns and sees Gendric and then runs for a brass horn secured to the wall.

Gendric actions

>Kill engineer
>take captive using burning chains
>tackle engineer

Who is coming through next dimension door?

>No one
>Sireyi
>Bokin
>Sofia
>Jal

>>33518418
>Kill Engineer
MAGIC IS MORE DIFFICULT HERE

>Sireyi
We can send people through after us, correct?
Otherwise:
>Bokin

Rolled 16 + 2

>>33518418
>>Kill Engineer

>>33518418
>>Kill engineer

>>33518418
>take captive using burning chains

>Sireyi

>>33518418
>tackle engineer
>Sireyi

>>33518418
>tackle
>Sireyi

>>33518418

Chains again

Rolled 15 + 2

>>33518418

>Kill engineer

>Sireyi

>>33518418

>Kill engineer

>Sireyi

>>33518418
>Tackle Engineer

>>33518490
(samefag) if chains don't win, I'll support tackle as next best thing

Also Sireyi as second.

Ok, roll 2d20, first is to stab engineer, second is for Sireyi to come through via DD

Also, vote for extra power to use DD, average of 3 used

Rolled 15

>>33518533

Rolled 1, 7 = 8

>>33518533
3

Rolled 8, 18 = 26

>>33518533
+3 is good

Rolled 2, 9 = 11

>>33518533

Hope for shitty first roll actually because fuck you guys. We might need the engineer to deal with the lightning core.

>>33518545
Thank god we didn't go with chains.
Unless you guys *wanted* Perils of the Arcane

Rolled 16, 10 = 26

>>33518562
Which is why I was for tackling him

Rolled 6

>>33518595
Too risky.

>>33518617
That better not mean you were one of the anons that voted for chains.

>>33518636
>anons
>implying this thread is not samefag

>>33518617

Well, regardless, we'll have to deal with the pirate crew now, since the guy will trip the alarm. I guess Sireyi could approach the lightning core more safely than Gendrick once she's here.

>>33518692
Or less safely, since it's calling our lightning powers out even at this range.

>>33518671

If there's a samefag, I suspect it's the murderhobo one.

>>33518595
And now we're gonna have the alarm rang on us, just as we enter the core-room, great
I suppose we can hold him at sword and, well, "negotiate" that he gets the core out of the engine with Sireyi.

>>33518692
Sireyi thrives on lightning.
It might even boost her powers.
>>33518718
Which one? I am confus.

>>33518671
Alright guys... truth is.... I am everyone. I have 5 different computers that I post with so I can control everything. Yes, even those times where I change my mind. Also I'm a tortoisekin and would prefer if you address me as Xir or Xer. Oh and please add trigger warnings to your posts as necessary. Also... Everything triggers me

>>33518767
I think he's talking about the Kill him/Slice him up votes

Gendric chases after the engineer and cuts him down with his swords, but not before the engineer is able to yell “Engine Room! Intruders!” into the brass horn.

Sireyi tears open a doorway into the room and steps through without incident (AE22/34).

This close to the Lightning Core, the draining effect is stronger (DE 24/27). Your lightning crown once again dances upon your head without you activating it.

The hot steam is thick in here, but you can feel the lightning core deep within that steam engine, it calls to you, you need to go to it and touch it, let it drink in your energies, as you will drink in pure power....

>Rip apart engine to find core
>Dimension Door someone in or out (who)
>Turn lightning crown off
>Other

Also, roll 1d20+4, to avoid the CALL of the Core

Gendric Actions

>Lock Engineroom door
>Sireyi is acting funny, grab her
>Speak into horn, convince them everything is fine, except for the engine leak that needs to be dealt with, large leak, very dangerous, you can’t come in right now

>>33518718
>The murderhobo
Except nobody samefagged any of those votes?
Only one guy voted for any murderhobo-type things in each vote.

A samefag is when one guy votes multiple times in the same vote, in this context, and the only example is that storm avatar guy is *probably* just a samefag.
I doubt attendance would've dropped so sharply immediately following that vote in any other circumstance.

>>33518767
>thrives
If by that you mean we have major resistance and are not actually immune, then yes.
Also, don't forget, it might try to draw all our DE out of us.

>>33518797
Those were only one guy each time, the murderhobo is a well-known singular anon, but even he's above samefagging.

>>33518776
Lel

>>33518776

I'm... sorry

>>33518767

(one of)
>>33518456
>>33518460
could be same as (one of)
>>33518510
>>33518512

Rolled 5 + 4

>>33518814
>Dimension Door someone in or out (who)
Sofie in please.

>Lock Engineroom door

Rolled 19 + 4

>>33518814
>Rip apart engine to find core

>>33518814
>Rip and tear
>Lock Door

I don't think just turning off LH would work, it's calling out to our fundamental nature.
It'd also just turn itself back on next turn.

>>33518840
You could say the same about any two votes that are a minute apart...

I samefagged to vote for Kill and Tackle since chains was so retarded and I didn't want to split the vote

Rolled 14 + 4

>>33518814
>Other:
Speak into horn, convince them everything is fine, except for the engine leak that needs to be dealt with, large leak, very dangerous, you can’t come in right now

Our fluff says that we can imitate voices very well.

Rolled 17 + 4

>>33518814

>Approach the lightning core, look fo controls, see if there's any more adverse effects than simple draining

>Call of the core
actually let's get the fuck away from here. Dimension door back on the ship, NOW

>Gendric
Hold Sireyi

>>33518814
>Turn lightning crown off
>Lock Engineroom door
Lets not rip apart the engine. I think thats the BAD END

Rolled 19 + 4

>>33518898
Y-You too?

>>33518933
OP said there would be no VN style bad ends.

>>33518902
Siyeri can, due to Angel Voice, but that's one of Gendric's actions.
We'd also need to have heard his voice a little.

>>33518933
Ye, we don't want these poor pirate to crash and die

Also, everyone shouuld stop rolling dice until prompted, to make sure we don't get 1's to rolls we would've cleared otherwise. As I understand, it doesn't matter if it's in the first 3 rolls, a 1 causes BAD END as well.

>>33518980
How about the bad end where we don't get the super special magic item?

Ok, roll 1d20 to see how much of a mess you make of the engine

Rolled 2 + 4

>>33518989
The airship is kept up by a huge baloon. The Lightning Core is just a booster.

>>33518995
That's more like a skipped BONUS level, not necessarily a BAD END, unless you were going for 100% completion.

Rolled 12

>>33518989
>Stop rolling until prompted he say.
>Completely missing the fact that we were prompted for a roll in OP's post.

>>33519019

Rolled 2

>>33519019
well here we go. I really worry this won't end well

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>>33519025
>Not always going for 100% completion

Rolled 14 + 4

>>33519024
Well, shit.

>>33519034
I didn't miss that, but we already had 3 rolls for that.

>>33518989
>As I understand, it doesn't matter if it's in the first 3 rolls, a 1 causes BAD END as well.

>Natural 1 and Natural 20

>A single 1 is of no consequence, it’s just a number and has no special effect.
>If 2 out of 3 rolls are 1’s then the action is an automatic failure and may have other negative consequences.
>Three 1’s indicate catastrophic failure.

>A 20 is a great roll! But it’s just a number and confers no special bonuses.
>Two 20’s are an automatic success and may have additional (beneficial) effects.
>Three 20’s are as good as it gets and will always include a special bonus/effect of some kind.

A one right now would activate PotA, if it was in the first three *and* a magic roll.
PotA is basically just wild magic, so not good or bad, dependent entirely upon the result.

>>33519056
>Not realizing we already ruined our 100% completion attempt

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>>33519096

>>33519062
Okay?
Then what does it matter, a one outside the first three means nothing, OP only changed things due to trip 20s out of pity.
And because he's based as fuck.

>>33519019
So, wait, is high roll more mess or less mess?
Because I kinda wanted to make a mess.

Rolled 3

>>33519019

>>33519161
hey latefag. Hows it going?

>>33519191
We only had two properly modded rolls, that's why I rolled.

>>33519211
Oh shit you're right. Damn, I thought you were latefag. Hes always rolling or voting like 5-10 minutes behind. Hes a good guy.

Gendric rushes over to the engineroom door and locks it, piling up anything he can find to block it.

You’ve resisted its call, for now.

You pull pieces off the engine, tearing away metal like its paper, although eager to get to the ‘Core you’re not doing so without thinking and instead you are carefully peeling parts off it. Part of the engine explodes, and you get a face-full of hot steam, very hot steam (HP 48/58).

You stumble back for a moment in pain, then you look at the engine, you can see IT.

The Lightning Core doesn’t look like much, a dull metal cube the size of your fist, but incredible lightning energies are dancing around it, maybe too much even for you to control or resist. It’s drawing in all the energy around it and feeding it into the now wrecked steam engine, it won’t be long before this engine holds more energy than it can handle, unless you remove the Core from it.

(DE 22/27)

>Pull Core out
>This is dangerous, someone else should do it
>Dimension Door in or out (who?)
>Other

Roll 1d20+4 to resist the CALL to grab the Core

Gendric
>Sireyi is acting funny, grab her
>Speak into horn, convince them everything is fine, except for the engine leak that needs to be dealt with, large leak, very dangerous, you can’t come in right now
>other

Rolled 4 + 4

>>33519283
>Pull Core out
>Speak into horn, convince them everything is fine, except for the engine leak that needs to be dealt with, large leak, very dangerous, you can’t come in right now

>>33519283
Do we see anything to grab the core with? There should be something here with the engineer, that maybe even Gendric could use to grab it
Also
>Detect Evil/Detect Magic
regardless of what we do
Speak into horn, convince them everything is fine, except for the engine leak that needs to be dealt with, large leak, very dangerous, you can’t come in right now

Rolled 7 + 4

>>33519283

I have an extremely bad feeling about this, but I have no idea how to go about it. We need to placate it somehow, calm it down.

>Cast Sanctuary

Gendric

>Take hold of Sireyi

Rolled 18 + 4

>>33519283
>>Pull Core out

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Rolled 18 + 4

>>33519283
Its risky... but lets see what happens
>Pull Core out- Use the engineers thick gloves
>Speak into horn, convince them everything is fine, except for the engine leak that needs to be dealt with, large leak, very dangerous, you can’t come in right now

I wonder if pic related will happen, but with lightning

>>33519373
We don't have sanctuary.

>>33519396

Damn. Oh well, looks like grabbers are winning anyway. I hope OP had this planned but not as a trap.

>>33519374
Cool, now we just need to do a quick Detect Evil on the Core before pulling it out.

>>33519414

Actually, cast shining scales, that might help.

Rolled 9 + 4

>>33519283
>Pull Core out
>Speak into horn, convince them everything is fine, except for the engine leak that needs to be dealt with, large leak, very dangerous, you can’t come in right now

Grab+Bullshit

ok, roll 2d20, let's see what happens

>>33519440
seconding, might as well make sure as best as we can that we survive contact
Also, DE core

Rolled 16, 10 = 26

>>33519464
Let's get it!

>>33519464
From your attitude, I take it this wasn't the best way to handle it.
Damn, oh well.

Rolled 15, 4 = 19

>>33519464

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Rolled 11, 18 = 29

>>33519464

>do something retarded involving electricity
>have the other guy HOLD US when doing something retarded involving electricity
What could possibly go wrong?

>>33519512
I hope that didn't win the vote, just seems like the worst idea at present.

>>33519493
Who gives a shit?
If OP wants the story to end, he'll end it one way or another.
If the story goes on, we can do just about anything and OP will fix it.
Like the time we got captured by a slave trader who is now a member of our party...

>>33519531
It didn't, it looks like only one guy didn't vote for the horn.

OP means grab (the core) and bullshit (the pirates)

>>33519491
>>33519512
I think we did it guys

>>33519512
We could pass out and wake up in a cage like the last time we tried something stupid.

>>33519583
Or we could grab the core and not pass out due to lightning resistance and resisting the call.
It's not a stupid decision, just a slightly unpredictable one.

>>33519608
Well, the core is draining our energy, so obviously we are not really resistant to lightning.

>>33519636
>Lightning Mastery 2
>2 – Damage bonus increases, electricity resistance increases, can fire area (line) lightning bolt, Storm attack is 10ft across (catch up to 10 foes). All costs divine energy, except lightning resistance which is constant.
>Electricity resistance increases

Lightning Resistance has nothing to do with the draining effect, it does have to do with us not passing out from a severe electrical shock.
We can probably get the core to obey us after we make contact, it seems like that kind of artifact.

Gendric speaks into the brass horn, confusing the pirates enough to delay a response.

You reach out eagerly and grab hold of the metal cube, not even your powers can completely protect you from the energies raging around it (HP 42/58).

As soon as you touch it you feel it drink in all of your power (DE 0/27, AE 0/34). It is agony.

And then it starts to drain your life-force (HP 32/58), but you cannot let go, it is not agony, it is ecstasy.

You’re not just using the power of the storm, you ARE the storm.

High above the world you rage, hurling lightning and stormwinds this way and that, in the middle of you, two tiny floating things are lashed together, creatures even smaller than they are crawling around inside them.

No, wait, that’s wrong, you’re not a storm, you’re Sireyi, you’re a half-angel and a paladin and a young girl, and this thing is KILLING YOU.

But now that you’ve touched it you cannot let go, you either bend this thing to your will or you die.

This is not a god, this is not a person, this is a thing, an enchanted object, and your will must win.

This thing draws in the energies of the storms, that’s why it’s draining your life, your powers are close enough to a storm elemental. But it also channels them, you need to force it to pour all the energies back into you.

Gendric

You see Sireyi, she’s kneeling on the floor holding some metal cube, lightning dancing around her, getting close to her would be dangerous, but she looks in a bad way, what should you do?

>Wait, lightning is her thing, she can do this
>Try and pull that cube away from her
>Other

Roll 1d20+4 to master the box.

Rolled 13 + 4

>>33519742

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Rolled 6 + 4

>>33519742
>master the box
>pic related

Rolled 2 + 4

>>33519742

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>>33519751
Well fucking hell. Heres hoping 17 is enough.
I bet its not. Time to take up drinking

Rolled 19 + 4

>>33519742
>Don't trust this, but touching the person touching the box that is *full* of lightning is beyond stupid.

>>33519780
>1d6
4chanX.

Rolled 3 + 4

>>33519742
Ah nuu cheeki breeki
we ded nigga, highest roll is 17 and that's not enough.

>Wait, lightning is her thing, she can do this

>>33519812

Thank you.

Also related thread:
>>33517592

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>>33519780
>1d6
10/10
I am mad.

You’re getting there, the flow of energies is....moving the right...way (HP 37/58). You realise you can feel the storm above you, a vast, nearly limitless pool of power.

You can feel the box starting to respond, you’ve almost got it, just. a little. more...

Roll 1d20+4

Gendric intervenes?
Y/N

>>33519742
Say something encouraging
>Keep it together, Sireyi
>Don't let it control you, you must control IT!
>Valeya is counting on us, She's counting on you!!

Rolled 19 + 4

>>33519914
N
It's a bad idea to touch a person touching the magical equivalent of a live wire.

Rolled 13 + 4

>>33519914
N

Rolled 6 + 4

>>33519914
N

Rolled 17 + 4

>>33519914
N

Please for the love of god let this NOT be a one.

>>33519925
I rolled a 19 again.
Am I a wizard?

>>33519941
A single one does nothing more than a single two, you need 2+ ones to critfail.

Rolled 15 + 4

>>33519914

There's only one way out of this.

>Gendric
should he get an intellect or intuition roll to find a pool or something to intervene with? Don't intervene for now though.

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>>33519952
I hope so, and i hope you leave a lot more 19s around

Rolled 13 + 4

>>33519914
No, but keep shouting encouraging things an stuff

We can do this!!

captcha:uslavir Master
We will master the box!

Rolled 9, 1, 1 = 11

>>33519975
I stole three of them

>>33519999
Well that's some bad omen rolls if ever I saw them.

>>33519990
I hope it gets called Uslavir.
That's a pretty badass name for a magical artifact.

>>33519999
Well, I guess you've got a 19 if you take a 1 and a 9.
Your computer is evidently trying to call the police...
Dare I ask what's on your hard drive?

>>33519999
Nice quads
Also shotguns did 9,1,1

Rolled 7 + 4

>>33519999
>quads
>two 1's
Be gone, foul demon!
Thanks forngetting them out of the way though.

>>33520034
No less than 20 Gigabytes of antisemitic .pdfs from a torrent.

With a supreme effort of will you force the lightning core to return to you everything it took, and more (DE 54/27, AE 68/34, HP 58/58).

But it’s not enough, you want....more. There’s a storm raging above you, you know you could pull it into the core and store it there, you know the core can handle it, the question is...can you?

With the dancing energies under your control, magic is safe to use again, safe as it ever is, anyway.

The entire engine room is on fire, it’s not going to be safe to stay here longer than a few minutes, in fact this entire pirate ship is probably not going to last longer than a half-hour.

[Wild Magic effect has ended]

>That’s enough power for today, time to go
>drink in the storm, you didn’t come all this way for nothing

>>33520043

>thinking RNG is merciful that way

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>>33520075
>drink in the storm, you didn’t come all this way for nothing


>>33519999
>pic related

>>33520075

That's enough power for today, let's not overbear our welcome.

Now we have to defend our price though, and be quick about it. Pirates might get funny ideas like executing hostages.

>>33520075

>That’s enough power for today, time to go

>>33520075
>That’s enough power for today, time to go

I've seen what happens when you OD on positive energy. Shit ain't pretty.

>>33520075
>That’s enough power for today, time to go

>>33520075
...
Why did we come aboard, again?
Are we just gonna make their ship explode and hold them captive?

>>33520131

By which I mean, teleport back to ship, make sure our disguise is on, and go defeat remaining pirates.

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>>33520065
>mfw

>>33520075
>Let's go home
I don't know if I can roll another 19, and the other option seems like it's just an immediate recharge of the lightning core.
Teleport Gendric across first.

>>33520156
Magical artifact and protecting our ride from pirates.

>>33520156

We came for the core, and we have it. If the ship is going down, there's no point in staying aboard it.

>>33520156
Oh, I almost forgot that.
>Pretend to be an avatar of the lightning god.

>>33520215
No.
You're like blow the horn anon, except instead of being amusing I genuinely despise you.

Rolled 19 + 4

>>33520075
Couldn't we just, get out of here and then later use any old storm to juice up?
Regardless, I'm going to make my first really dumb choice now.
>Revel in the magnificent cascading energy. It will belong to you, as is your birthright. Drink in the raging storm
>Master Uslavir
captcha:theowle merged

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>>33520215
>>33520236

>>33520207
The ships not going down, it is held up by a bag of gas.
But the Stormwing harnesses probably won't work anymore.

>Drink it in
>Pretend to be an avatar of the Lightning god

>>33520075
The trap option is obviously #2.

>>33520270
>>33520236
Samefag
Also it is going down:
>The entire engine room is on fire, it’s not going to be safe to stay here longer than a few minutes, in fact this entire pirate ship is probably not going to last longer than a half-hour.
Because of all the fire.

>>33520075
>That’s enough power for today, time to go

Don't push our luck. Besides, being all avaricious about power and stuff is unbecoming of a paladin.

>>33520075
Getting more energy than you can hold tends to make you explode if you aren't discharging it somewhere.
>That’s enough power for today, time to go

>>33520300
Ha, I meant for that second link to be to:>>33520215

>Drink it all in
>Take over the ship
pretend to be an avatar of the lightning god

>>33520338
Veto.

>>33520075
>>drink in the storm, you didn’t come all this way for nothing
Let's see if it turns us into an avatar of the lightning god

You decide that trying to drain an entire storm is a task for another day. You use our dimension door spell to get you and Gendric back to the room your allies are hiding in, making sure to don your draconic disguise before you do, and hide your halo (AE 62/34).

The lightning core seems to be constantly feeding you power in proximity to a storm (AE 68/34).

Out of the porthole you can see the pirates ship burning, a fire billowing from its hull.

You wonder if the pirates are going to try and save their doomed vessel, or capture this one?

“Sireyi?” asks Sofia hesitantly “Are you ok?”

“I’m fine” you say, why wouldn’t you be? Although you do feel a little different, more....you.

Please roll 1d2 yes that’s two not 20, 1 is pirates go back to their ship, 2 s they try and take yours, first 3 rolls decide.

>>33520362
>>33520338
>>33520270
>>33520215
You aren't fooling anyone.

>>33520075
>>drink in the storm, you didn’t come all this way for nothing
become avatar of the lightning god

Rolled 1

>>33520378

Rolled 2

>>33520378

Well that was a profitable stage of our journey.

Rolled 1

>>33520378

Rolled 1

>>33520378

Rolled 1

>>33520378
Let us become an avatar of the lightning god, and also Israel is justified in slaughtering palestinian civilians, plus that'll be 19.99 plus tip, and why aren't you gay yet /v/.

>>33520407
OP, you can tell this guy is trolling and aren't counting his non-votes, right?

Rolled 2

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>>33520436

Rolled 2

>>33520472

>>33520408
>>33520425
Hahaha, stupid pirates.
>Let's bounce!

>>33520436

Despite your admirable opinions, I would kindly request that you go to /pol/ or /b/ and debate them there.

You watch as the pirates hurry back to their burning vessel, dropping the loot they are carrying. You can see some flying over there on those stormwings, it would be so easy to just reach out and pinch off the power of those wings. But it wouldn’t be very nice to just drop them to the ground below, so you let them fly back to their ship.

With the pirates panicking, your ship decides to leave, letting the pirates battle the blaze on their own.

You all hurry back to your cabin and pretend you’ve been there the whole time.

Well that was exciting. Indeed, it seems all that the ships passengers talk about for the rest of the trip was the pirate attack.

Some of the demon-blooded, those with purer blood, talk about a powerful explosion of energy that set the ship on fire, they can’t quite define it though “not arcane” one says “but something...other, a power of judgement, pure in purpose , and terrifying.” The general consensus seems to be that it was the Lightning Core malfunctioning and exploding.

Roll 1d20+5 Fellowship

Rolled 18 + 5

>>33520629

>>33520378
Is there a mirror in this room? If there is, then check ourselves out in it, I wonder why Sofia asked us if we're alright

Rolled 15 + 5

>>33520629

Rolled 5 + 5

>>33520629
fucking badass, and I agree. Check our appearance. Carefully

>>33520629
Look self
>>33520657
>>33520701

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>>33520629

Well that was Awesome.

We've gotta get rid of this excess energy before somebody suggests using it for the expansion of certain things.

>>33520793

Sounds to me like you just did.

But no. It will get spontaneously discharged during our sleep I'm sure. Which could lead to embarassing things for hour half-demon friend I guess. Potentially painful too. Just... please no crackling. There's enough unresolved tension as it is.

>>33520793
Also, before we accelerate our aging.

You check your appearance, nothing about you seems to have changed, though when you look in the mirror, sparks dance in your eyes briefly. But you feel more sure of yourself.

[+2 Willpower gained, permanent increase, max Willpower raised by 2]

>Success
Most of the passengers seem content with the explanation of the lightning core exploding. One doesn’t: a young demon-blood sorcerer, a scholar on break from university going home to visit his family – according to shipboard gossip. One day as he walks passed you in the corridor he says casually “Thanks for helping with the pirates...dragon-blood” and then walks off, looking quite smug with himself before you can react.
What should you do about this?

>Confront him, see what he knows
>Ignore him, he’s just guessing
>Watch him carefully, but don’t do anything unless you have to.
>Other

>>33520889
>Watch him carefully

>>33520889
>Watch him carefully, but don’t do anything unless you have to.

>>33520889
>Set him adrift on an ice raft.

>>33520965
What's the reference?

>>33520889

>Try to draw him to seclusion, then confront him. Just what does he think we've had to do with this.

>>33520889
>Watch him carefully

Also how did we IC know he was a sorcerer?

>>33520992
>a young demon-blood sorcerer, a scholar on break from university going home to visit his family – according to shipboard gossip.
>according to shipboard gossip
The gossip was about him, anon.