HF 025

[9/2/16, 7:20:30 PM] Josh: Ok, let us begin then.

[9/2/16, 7:20:40 PM] Josh: Many things happened yesterday.

[9/2/16, 7:22:07 PM] Josh: Vampires, dragons, strange cavern-dwelling women, the fall of the Winter Court in the Feywild, Belza's pregnant (because it was sweeps, so a female character had to be pregnant), and Quill found out the lump of coal he coughed up has a micro-computer inside.

[9/2/16, 7:22:30 PM] Josh: Anna, question, where was the halo when you went to sleep?

[9/2/16, 7:23:15 PM] Anna: [above my head. May as well get this memory-reclaimation "therapy" going.]

[9/2/16, 7:24:44 PM] Anna: [please note that unless you say so, I am aware of my surroundings while powered off.]

[9/2/16, 7:25:03 PM] Josh: ((That is fair))

[9/2/16, 7:28:41 PM] Josh: Ok, so, one after another, you wake up and move to the kitchen...or elsewhere, if you so desire.

[9/2/16, 7:30:36 PM] Rune: Rune turns up wearing one of her new outfits--with pants -- and looking very self-conscious about it.

[9/2/16, 7:31:17 PM] Josh: Gerald is inside, making breakfast.

[9/2/16, 7:31:30 PM] Quill: Morning Gerald.  What's cooking?

[9/2/16, 7:31:58 PM] Rune: That smells good.

[9/2/16, 7:31:59 PM] Josh: Gerald: "Sausage and eggs."

[9/2/16, 7:32:15 PM] Quill: Quill gives a thumbs up and has a seat.

[9/2/16, 7:32:18 PM] Rune: ... I feel like everyone can see everything.

[9/2/16, 7:33:00 PM] Anna: Anna appears, again covered in moss and flowers, with her halo floating above her.

[9/2/16, 7:33:22 PM] Josh: Taeral: "I already said you looked fine.  Also, as I recall, you had no problem talking to me naked when we first met."

[9/2/16, 7:35:16 PM] Rune: Good  morning, Anna. You look so pretty today.

[9/2/16, 7:36:53 PM] Rune: Yes, but naked naked is different than naked with clothes on.

[9/2/16, 7:37:22 PM] Josh: Taeral: "How's the halo treating you, Anna?"

[9/2/16, 7:38:20 PM] Anna: It caused me to dream again, tonight. A good one, this time.

[9/2/16, 7:41:30 PM] Hank: Thats nice good dreams are better than the alternatives.

[9/2/16, 7:42:48 PM] Rune: We should ask the Oracle about the Marquis. And about Lyv.

[9/2/16, 7:43:53 PM] Hank: Maybe we can finish breakfast before talking to the glowing floating head.

[9/2/16, 7:44:03 PM] Josh: Gerald serves breakfast.

[9/2/16, 7:44:21 PM] Quill: ((Sorry sorry.  Unexpected AFK.))

[9/2/16, 7:44:24 PM] Creed: (( I'm here! ))

[9/2/16, 7:44:32 PM] Anna: Anna just has some tea.

[9/2/16, 7:44:37 PM] Quill: You look really good, Rune.

[9/2/16, 7:44:43 PM] Quill: Quill nods.

[9/2/16, 7:44:49 PM] Rune: Rune blushes blue.

[9/2/16, 7:45:04 PM] Rune: Thanks. It just feels weird, that's all.

[9/2/16, 7:45:21 PM] Josh: Gerald: "Oh, I should mention.  Helga is here working on one of the rooms.  A couple of my brothers are with her."

[9/2/16, 7:45:57 PM] Rune: Oh, good. Helping, I hope?

[9/2/16, 7:46:17 PM] Josh: You here a crashing and Helga scream "DAMMIT!"

[9/2/16, 7:46:25 PM] Josh: Gerald: "In a manner of speaking, I am sure."

[9/2/16, 7:47:12 PM] Hank: Wheres Max is he awake?

[9/2/16, 7:47:28 PM] Rune: Rune winces.

[9/2/16, 7:47:30 PM] Rune: Or not.

[9/2/16, 7:47:31 PM] Quill: .... We should make sure that she's not uncovered a portal the the negaverse in one of the walls.

[9/2/16, 7:47:33 PM] Rune: Rune goes to investigate!

[9/2/16, 7:50:30 PM] Quill: Quill does too!

[9/2/16, 7:51:00 PM] Hank: Hank finishes a cup of tea and then follows.

[9/2/16, 7:51:10 PM] Anna: Anna stays in the kitchen, so as not to alarm Helga with her appearance.

[9/2/16, 7:51:36 PM] Josh: [9/2/16, 7:49:45 PM] Josh: You enter the room and see some shattered boards that two Kenku are cleaning up.  Also, you see Max resting on some scaffolding and Helga scolding the Kenku.

[9/2/16, 7:50:01 PM] Josh: Helga: "Nail both ends!  Both ends!  Grah!  Oh...morning."

[9/2/16, 7:51:59 PM] Josh: This message has been removed.

[9/2/16, 7:52:00 PM] Rune: ... are you all right?

[9/2/16, 7:52:17 PM] Josh: Helga: "Yeah, everyone's fine and...ok, I don't need a peanut gallery, thanks."

[9/2/16, 7:52:27 PM] Josh: Helga: "Also, where'd the kid come from?"

[9/2/16, 7:53:06 PM] Quill: We just accumlate people.  Haven't you noticed by now?

[9/2/16, 7:53:08 PM] Creed: Creed walks into the room, yawning

[9/2/16, 7:53:58 PM] Josh: Helga: "I have.  Bad habit, that."

[9/2/16, 7:54:20 PM] Anna: Anna waves as Creed enters. The flowers on her arm leave a trail of pollen.

[9/2/16, 7:55:01 PM] Josh: Max: "Hi."

[9/2/16, 7:55:48 PM] Rune: Oh, all right. Just... well, you never know and all.

[9/2/16, 7:55:51 PM] Rune: Rune heads back to the kitchen.

[9/2/16, 7:56:17 PM] Josh: Taeral: "So...not to be that guy, but do we have anything to do today?"

[9/2/16, 7:56:34 PM] Quill: Quill leaves them too it as well!

[9/2/16, 7:56:41 PM] Quill: Hmm.  Not that I can think of.

[9/2/16, 7:56:50 PM] Josh: ((Let's just say everyone moves to the kitchen))

[9/2/16, 7:58:12 PM] Rune: I have a lot to do today.

[9/2/16, 7:58:47 PM] Rune: Max's room is more or less ready, but I've got to go and talk to the butcher again, and we should check with William about the steady income again. And I have paperwork.

[9/2/16, 7:59:02 PM] Rune: And we should go and see the dragon, and see if we can find a proper book on dragons.

[9/2/16, 7:59:16 PM] Rune: And we should probably start looking for Lyv.

[9/2/16, 7:59:30 PM] Rune: And I have to stop by the Guild to make sure they know Max is all right and won't be back.

[9/2/16, 7:59:32 PM] Quill: Oh!  Let's try this.

[9/2/16, 7:59:38 PM] Quill: Quill pulls out his magic lump.

[9/2/16, 8:00:03 PM] Quill: Oracle?  Do you have any information on black dragons?

[9/2/16, 8:00:15 PM] Creed: "..Oracle?"

[9/2/16, 8:00:22 PM] Josh: Oracle boots up, showing the floating blue head.

[9/2/16, 8:00:28 PM] Creed: "Wh--"

[9/2/16, 8:00:45 PM] Josh: Oracle: "Scanning knowledge of "black dragons"."

[9/2/16, 8:00:53 PM] Quill: This is Oracle.  It's a database.

[9/2/16, 8:01:00 PM] Quill: It was teleported into my intestines.

[9/2/16, 8:01:17 PM] Anna: It's a rare example of fey artifice.

[9/2/16, 8:01:19 PM] Creed: "Ew..?"

[9/2/16, 8:01:41 PM] Creed: "How did you-- Never mind."

[9/2/16, 8:02:12 PM] Quill: I coughed it up.

[9/2/16, 8:02:18 PM] Quill: .... it was just as painful as it sounds.

[9/2/16, 8:02:21 PM] Creed: "From your intestine?"

[9/2/16, 8:02:40 PM] Josh: Oracle's image fades to a sort of anatomy-poster style vision of black dragons.

[9/2/16, 8:03:28 PM] Josh: Oracle: "Dragon, Black.  Genus: Chromatic."

[9/2/16, 8:03:48 PM] Rune: How do you get them to like you?

[9/2/16, 8:04:54 PM] Josh: Oracle's eyes blink.  "Subject: bonding with Black Dragon.  Information: Unknown.  Subject: Chromatic Dragon Taming.  Information: Unknown."

[9/2/16, 8:05:35 PM] Rune: Oh, I don't think taming would be the right word. It's a baby person, that's all.

[9/2/16, 8:06:17 PM] Josh: Oracle: "Searching "Baby Black Dragon".  Subject found.  "Baby eaten by black dragon"."

[9/2/16, 8:06:31 PM] Josh: Oracle: "Baby melted by black dragon."

[9/2/16, 8:06:43 PM] Josh: Oracle: "Baby ripped apart by black dragon."

[9/2/16, 8:06:52 PM] Rune: ... oh dear. We'd better get him trained well before Belza gives birth.

[9/2/16, 8:07:12 PM] Creed: "Try Raising a Black Dragon."

[9/2/16, 8:07:24 PM] Josh: Oracle: "Scanning..."

[9/2/16, 8:07:30 PM] Creed: (( I edited it ))

[9/2/16, 8:08:31 PM] Josh: Oracle: "Subject found.  Black Dragons in the wild."

[9/2/16, 8:09:05 PM] Creed: "That works, right?"

[9/2/16, 8:09:16 PM] Anna: It might.

[9/2/16, 8:09:17 PM] Rune: Rune nods.

[9/2/16, 8:09:26 PM] Josh: Oracle: "Chromatic Dragons are raised in packs, by their mothers for their first 100 terra-years of life.  Packs will often include up to seven other young dragons but may be as few as one or two."

[9/2/16, 8:09:57 PM] Rune: Oh, good, we'll have a baby and a young person already.

[9/2/16, 8:10:42 PM] Josh: Oracle: "Dragons of a chromatic nature are often raised to be very hostile to outsiders, and may attack as part of their nature."

[9/2/16, 8:11:27 PM] Hank: Yes I think that is accurate.

[9/2/16, 8:11:39 PM] Creed: "You also scared it."

[9/2/16, 8:11:48 PM] Rune: May, it said.

[9/2/16, 8:12:13 PM] Josh: Oracle: "Black Dragons are known to be fed blood from their mother's kill until they reach six Earth-years of age, when they are taught to hunt on their own."

[9/2/16, 8:12:16 PM] Rune: Besides, it's how you're raised. I mean, you don't see me kissing people's souls away.

[9/2/16, 8:14:00 PM] Hank: And we don't know the first thing about how this specific dragon was raised except that it is alone right now.

[9/2/16, 8:14:06 PM] Josh: Oracle: "Black Dragons may also be bathed in their parent's acid or acid of their own to heal from wounds quicker."

[9/2/16, 8:14:31 PM] Creed: "How bout Black Dragons living in cities?"

[9/2/16, 8:14:50 PM] Josh: Oracle: "Scanning...data not found."

[9/2/16, 8:15:01 PM] Creed: "Sewers then."

[9/2/16, 8:15:26 PM] Quill: Hmmm.  Do you suppose that pool you said you saw it swimming in is from his mom?

[9/2/16, 8:15:27 PM] Josh: Oracle: "Scanning..."sewer" not found."

[9/2/16, 8:15:50 PM] Creed: "Black Dragons living in City Sewers."

[9/2/16, 8:15:53 PM] Josh: Taeral: "The way the old woman talked, it sounded like there was no mom."

[9/2/16, 8:15:56 PM] Creed: "How specific do we need to be?"

[9/2/16, 8:16:02 PM] Rune: Well, this one hasn't been raised. It's still little.

[9/2/16, 8:16:58 PM] Josh: Oracle: "No mention of word "sewer" seems to exist in my databanks."

[9/2/16, 8:17:08 PM] Creed: Oh.

[9/2/16, 8:17:21 PM] Creed: "How about Black Dragons in Undercities?"

[9/2/16, 8:17:58 PM] Josh: Oracle: "Scanning...information found."

[9/2/16, 8:18:32 PM] Josh: Oracle's face vanishes again, now showing a creature that looks like this:

[9/2/16, 8:18:58 PM] Creed: "Uh.. woah."

[9/2/16, 8:19:44 PM] Josh: Oracle: "Subject: Shadow Dragon Hive.  Found in undercity beneath the city of Dewland, Autumn Court within the feywild."

[9/2/16, 8:20:52 PM] Josh: Oracle: "Information: When the hive grew strong enough, they burrowed up from the undercity to devour Dewland.  There were no survivors and the Shadow Dragons ruled that area from 1120 BTO to 987 BTO.

[9/2/16, 8:20:58 PM] Rune: Oh, he's not a shadow dragon, I don't think.

[9/2/16, 8:21:06 PM] Rune: Just a regular black dragon.

[9/2/16, 8:21:25 PM] Creed: "Does it just have information on things in the feywild?"

[9/2/16, 8:21:26 PM] Rune: Oracle, tell me how the Marquis came to rule the Autumn Court, and what relation he is to Oberon and Titania.

[9/2/16, 8:21:51 PM] Josh: Oracle: "Analysis: A vast majority of my information is based in the feywild."

[9/2/16, 8:21:53 PM] Quill: Oracle has a lot of stories about the Marquis.

[9/2/16, 8:23:00 PM] Josh: Oracle: "Story: The Marquis's Rise to Power.  Date 5,388 ATO."

[9/2/16, 8:23:49 PM] Josh: Oracle: "Following the events of the Battle of The Eternal Dead Tree, the Autumn Court was left lost and abandoned.  Karabas was gone and there was no line of succession."

[9/2/16, 8:24:30 PM] Josh: Oracle: "The squirrels cried that they should rule, for they had played with Karabas as a boy, leaping from tree to tree and taught him to hide and gather, the two most important skills."

[9/2/16, 8:24:35 PM] Rune: Good, then it ought to know that.

[9/2/16, 8:25:15 PM] Josh: Oracle: "The Ents said they should rule.  There were more of them than any other creature in the autumn court, and none so connected to the land."

[9/2/16, 8:25:47 PM] Josh: Oracle: "The sprites said they should rule, as they had served the family the longest, since the land and the sky had met at Horizon."

[9/2/16, 8:26:02 PM] Josh: Oracle: "The fighting went on and on, days, weeks, months."

[9/2/16, 8:26:12 PM] Josh: Oracle: "In all this time, The Marquis said nothing."

[9/2/16, 8:26:29 PM] Josh: Oracle: "The Marquis sat in his stump and would not leave."

[9/2/16, 8:27:16 PM] Josh: Oracle: "Others would visit him.  For they knew his word would speak volumes at the right moment."

[9/2/16, 8:27:43 PM] Josh: Oracle: "The squirrels brought him acorns, that he would not hide for the winter."

[9/2/16, 8:28:02 PM] Josh: Oracle: "The Ents brought him branches, that he did not gather into bundles."

[9/2/16, 8:28:36 PM] Rune: ... hm. I thought the Marquis was Karabas.

[9/2/16, 8:28:41 PM] Josh: Oracle: "The sprites brought him pixie dust that he did not blow into unsuspecting faces."

[9/2/16, 8:28:58 PM] Creed: "Maybe in this case it means the absolute ruler of fey."

[9/2/16, 8:29:21 PM] Josh: Oracle: "Eventually, The Marquis was visited by Verenestra, of the Spring."

[9/2/16, 8:29:53 PM] Josh: Oracle: "No one knows what was said.  No one knows how long she was there, or if the Marquis ever spoke."

[9/2/16, 8:30:00 PM] Josh: Oracle: "We know two things."

[9/2/16, 8:30:24 PM] Josh: Oracle: "The Marquis was gifted was a single dewdrop.  And The Marquis left the stump."

[9/2/16, 8:30:54 PM] Josh: Oracle: "For many years after, The Marquis offered to oversee a council of all the subjects, who would take ruling in turns, as the four children had."

[9/2/16, 8:31:24 PM] Josh: Oracle: "Over time, this became messy and difficult, as once one group got the hang of leading, another had to replace it."

[9/2/16, 8:31:49 PM] Josh: Oracle: "And eventually, it was decided the Marquis should lead.  He was the wisest and most caring."

[9/2/16, 8:32:10 PM] Rune: Caring. Well, people do change, after all!

[9/2/16, 8:32:15 PM] Josh: Oracle: "And so, after he thrice refused the offer, the Marquis finally accepted it and became the leader of the Autumn court."

[9/2/16, 8:33:04 PM] Josh: Oracle repeats this in your voice: "what relation he is to Oberon and Titania"

[9/2/16, 8:33:42 PM] Josh: Oracle's image changes to that of a tiny, black spider with white markings on its back.

[9/2/16, 8:34:29 PM] Josh: Oracle: "Information: The Marquis has no relation to Titania or Oberon directly.  He was once the being "Little Spider", who befriended their son, Karabas, after Karabas freed him from his own web."

[9/2/16, 8:35:09 PM] Josh: Oracle returns to her mask face.

[9/2/16, 8:35:11 PM] Rune: When did he become an asshole?

[9/2/16, 8:35:49 PM] Josh: Oracle: "Apology: I do not have a log of The Marquis as being a part of someone's rectum."

[9/2/16, 8:36:28 PM] Rune: When did he become unkind and traitorous and power-hungry?

[9/2/16, 8:37:19 PM] Hank: And when did he start making deals?

[9/2/16, 8:38:04 PM] Josh: Oracle: "Apology: My programming is not equipped to make character judgments.  I may merely log events and repeat them."

[9/2/16, 8:38:44 PM] Josh: Oracle: "Information: The Marquis was first taught the ability to make deals by Karabas in 1317 BTO."

[9/2/16, 8:39:03 PM] Quill: When did he start meddling in the Prime Material plane?

[9/2/16, 8:39:45 PM] Josh: Oracle's eyes blink.  "Query: Do you want a date or time relative to now?"

[9/2/16, 8:39:54 PM] Quill: Yes.

[9/2/16, 8:40:02 PM] Creed: "Last night."

[9/2/16, 8:40:22 PM] Creed: Creed looks tired, with a side of annoyed.

[9/2/16, 8:40:39 PM] Rune: What happened to Karabas, anyway?

[9/2/16, 8:40:49 PM] Josh: Oracle: "Information: The Marquis first began to meddle with this plain exactly 4,387 terra-years, 3 months and 11 days prior to now.

[9/2/16, 8:41:27 PM] Creed: "That was before the fiend-war, right?"

[9/2/16, 8:41:28 PM] Josh: Oracle's eyes blink.  "Query: Story or Information?"

[9/2/16, 8:41:38 PM] Rune: Information.

[9/2/16, 8:41:48 PM] Josh: Taeral: "If those are earth years, long before the war."

[9/2/16, 8:42:28 PM] Anna: The Fiend War started approximately one millenium ago.

[9/2/16, 8:43:21 PM] Josh: Oracle's visage fades and another face comes up.  One that looks like a cross between a human and a bat.  One Quill recognizes from precisely once in his life.  "Information: Karabas was killed at the Battle of The Eternal Dead Tree by Winter Court Knight, Sir Neifron."

[9/2/16, 8:43:46 PM] Rune: ... that doesn't make any sense at all.

[9/2/16, 8:43:59 PM] Quill: Hrm.

[9/2/16, 8:45:58 PM] Creed: "What is the Battle of The Eternal Dead Tree?"

[9/2/16, 8:48:04 PM] Josh: Oracle: "Information: The Battle of The Eternal Dead Tree was the first of the ongoing Summer-Winter War.  It began when Aurilander was accused of stealing subjects from her brother's land.  During the battle, Karabas went out to stop the fighting and was struck down by Neifron.  This ended the fighting for a time.  In the spot where he died grew a tree, born black and charred, void of leaves."

[9/2/16, 8:48:13 PM] Josh: Oracel's image changes to the tree described.

[9/2/16, 8:48:30 PM] Josh: Oracle: "Information: The next battle was six fey-months later."

[9/2/16, 8:48:57 PM] Creed: "Isn't that where Taeral's body is?"

[9/2/16, 8:49:09 PM] Josh: Taeral: "Is it?"

[9/2/16, 8:49:31 PM] Creed: "Oh, right yeah I never told you your body was near a dead tree in the feywild."

[9/2/16, 8:49:37 PM] Creed: "I learned it from Ioun."

[9/2/16, 8:50:03 PM] Josh: Taeral: "...well that...I don't know how to react to that."

[9/2/16, 8:50:15 PM] Creed: Creed shrugs

[9/2/16, 8:50:44 PM] Creed: "Oracle, do you know how the body of Taeral... (last name?) came to the Eternal Dead Tree?"

[9/2/16, 8:50:53 PM] Rune: ... I wonder if he's trying to bring his friend back.

[9/2/16, 8:51:07 PM] Josh: Oracle: "Scanning...no information found."

[9/2/16, 8:51:36 PM] Rune: Oracle, can archfey be resurrected?

[9/2/16, 8:52:34 PM] Josh: Oracle: "Information: Unknown."

[9/2/16, 8:53:42 PM] Rune: Well, that might explain it.

[9/2/16, 8:54:10 PM] Rune: Do the rest of you want to come to the Guild with me? Or should we split up and fight enraged lemurs or rabid jackalopes like we usually do when we split up?

[9/2/16, 8:54:41 PM] Quill: The last time we split up hank and I got pulled into the Feywild and I spit up Oracle.

[9/2/16, 8:54:56 PM] Josh: Taeral: "Do you think we should maybe bring Belza to the Guild with us?"

[9/2/16, 8:55:09 PM] Hank: Technically halfway to the Feywild which might have been worse.

[9/2/16, 8:55:39 PM] Rune: I doubt it was worse, and that's a good idea.

[9/2/16, 8:55:53 PM] Rune: Gerald, would you fetch Belza for us? If she doesn't mind, of course.

[9/2/16, 8:56:09 PM] Josh: Gerald: "I shall do my best."

[9/2/16, 8:56:16 PM] Josh: Gerald goes to the Erinyes' room.

[9/2/16, 8:58:03 PM] Rune: And then we can go to Steelfarmer's, and then to the butcher's and then see if we can find the dragon?

[9/2/16, 8:58:21 PM] Anna: That sounds like a plan.

[9/2/16, 8:58:38 PM] Creed: "We need to finish getting me with the mage guild anyway."

[9/2/16, 8:58:53 PM] Hank: And knowing our luck somehow the whole plan will fall apart.

[9/2/16, 8:58:58 PM] Anna: Anna takes off her halo and stashes it in the box, before heading off to her room, presumably to hide it.

[9/2/16, 8:59:18 PM] Josh: As you do that, the moss retracts and the flowers vanish.

[9/2/16, 8:59:30 PM] Josh: Belza and Tiprus return with Gerald a moment later.

[9/2/16, 8:59:45 PM] Josh: Gerald: "I think she agreed...I'm not sure how much she understood."

[9/2/16, 9:00:00 PM] Josh: Belza: "Tiprus...come..."

[9/2/16, 9:01:07 PM] Quill: Quill stows Oracle.

[9/2/16, 9:01:49 PM] Anna: Anna returns, a lot less planty.

[9/2/16, 9:02:12 PM] Rune: Rune explains it to them in Infernal!

[9/2/16, 9:03:14 PM] Quill: Just as well, I have some questions for Steelfarmer anyway.

[9/2/16, 9:03:30 PM] Josh: Belza and Tiprus nod.

[9/2/16, 9:03:48 PM] Josh: Max: "If you're going out, I'll check and see what I can find in the market district."

[9/2/16, 9:04:55 PM] Rune: Find for what? I'm going to tell the guild you're with me so that they don't fuss about you and don't try to come and get you back.

[9/2/16, 9:05:25 PM] Josh: Max: "...oh...do they need to know?"

[9/2/16, 9:07:12 PM] Rune: Well, put it this way, they won't bother looking if they know where you are, and Taeral and I can teach you to not set anybody's hair on fire by accident anyway.

[9/2/16, 9:07:37 PM] Josh: Max: "...ok...do I have to come?"

[9/2/16, 9:08:02 PM] Rune: Oh no, not if you don't want. If there's anything that would help me argue with them you ought to tell me it before I leave, though.

[9/2/16, 9:08:58 PM] Josh: Max: "...I don't know."

[9/2/16, 9:09:46 PM] Rune: It might help to find out how you ended up there in the first place.

[9/2/16, 9:10:33 PM] Josh: Max: "The Witch Hunters came.  My parents gave me to them, so they could take me to the academy.  I escaped and came to the city."

[9/2/16, 9:12:29 PM] Rune: Oh, you didn't set anyone on fire or anything? Lucky. I got spanked for that.

[9/2/16, 9:12:49 PM] Josh: Max: "...I broke a flower pot.  It moved."

[9/2/16, 9:14:58 PM] Rune: That's all? Well that's a lot of fuss over not much. Don't worry about it, then, I'll square it with the guild.

[9/2/16, 9:15:57 PM] Josh: The boy nods.

[9/2/16, 9:16:07 PM] Josh: Shall I assume you go to get the carriage?

[9/2/16, 9:16:14 PM] Rune: Rune does!

[9/2/16, 9:16:18 PM] Quill: Quill will drive.

[9/2/16, 9:16:48 PM] Hank: Hank will ride separately

[9/2/16, 9:16:59 PM] Anna: Anna will be kitty, once in the carriage.

[9/2/16, 9:17:03 PM] Josh: Ok, you all go to the stables.  In the stable, beside Clip and Clop, now is a black horse, who's body seems to be coated in small, shiny diamonds.  His mane is thick and curly.  The only part of his body not black is his face which is a whit color.  Viewed from the side, he has the appearance of a night sky with a half-moon.

[9/2/16, 9:17:30 PM] Quill: ....what.

[9/2/16, 9:17:52 PM] Anna: ...

[9/2/16, 9:17:55 PM] Hank: I acquired a horse last night.

[9/2/16, 9:17:58 PM] Rune: ... why do we have a demon horse?

[9/2/16, 9:18:09 PM] Creed: "How much did you spend on this??"

[9/2/16, 9:18:19 PM] Rune: A... Titania-horse?

[9/2/16, 9:18:30 PM] Rune: I think it's magic.

[9/2/16, 9:19:25 PM] Quill: ...I should hope so.

[9/2/16, 9:19:35 PM] Quill: Quill pokes the starry side of the horse.

[9/2/16, 9:19:35 PM] Hank: Yes kind of a magic horse.

[9/2/16, 9:19:45 PM] Quill: What's it's name?

[9/2/16, 9:21:20 PM] Hank: Kai

[9/2/16, 9:21:45 PM] Quill: Oh, that's a good name.

[9/2/16, 9:21:54 PM] Quill: You want to ride alongside the carriage?

[9/2/16, 9:22:07 PM] Quill: Might free up some space.

[9/2/16, 9:22:24 PM] Hank: That was my plan.

[9/2/16, 9:23:03 PM] Quill: Quill gets in the drivers seat of the carriage!  "Mage's Guild first?"

[9/2/16, 9:23:36 PM] Josh: Taeral: "So it would seem."

[9/2/16, 9:23:37 PM] Rune: Right.

[9/2/16, 9:23:41 PM] Rune: Rune hops inside with her cat.

[9/2/16, 9:24:22 PM] Josh: The cat follows.

[9/2/16, 9:25:22 PM] Anna: Anna does not kittify, as there is now extra space.

[9/2/16, 9:25:29 PM] Josh: So, you guys ride, Hank takes Kai, and the Erinyes fly overhead.

[9/2/16, 9:26:04 PM] Josh: As you pass by, you notice you are attracting some weird looks from people, both for the devil women overhead and the strangely colored horse.

[9/2/16, 9:26:43 PM] Rune: Rune waves at them and smiles, as usual.

[9/2/16, 9:27:09 PM] Anna: Anna pulls her hood down further.

[9/2/16, 9:27:24 PM] Josh: As you approach the Guild Hall...it looks different.  Repairs have been made from both of the previous incidents, but you see two Witch Hunters out front, standing guard.

[9/2/16, 9:27:56 PM] Josh: They watch you approach.

[9/2/16, 9:27:59 PM] Quill: ...under new management, right?

[9/2/16, 9:28:31 PM] Josh: Witch Hunter #1: We're just here to beef up the guard, 'til things go back to normal."

[9/2/16, 9:29:11 PM] Josh: Witch Hunter #2: "Given the last three incidents, and with no one in charge, our Temporary Captain found it necessary."

[9/2/16, 9:29:51 PM] Hank: Who is the temporary captain?

[9/2/16, 9:31:04 PM] Josh: Witch Hunter #1: "That would be Frederick Whitestone."

[9/2/16, 9:31:31 PM] Josh: Witch Hunter #2: "He was first lieutenant under Cime Ravensgard."

[9/2/16, 9:32:24 PM] Rune: Interesting.

[9/2/16, 9:32:38 PM] Rune: Oh, good, there'll be some continuity at least.

[9/2/16, 9:32:52 PM] Quill: Well, we have business inside.  I'm assuming we can pass?

[9/2/16, 9:33:10 PM] Josh: Witch Hunter #1: "Hold on, I need to check with my superior."

[9/2/16, 9:33:17 PM] Josh: He turns to the guy next to them.

[9/2/16, 9:33:25 PM] Josh: Witch Hunter #1: "May they pass?"

[9/2/16, 9:33:42 PM] Josh: Witch Hunter #2: "Ask them who they are and what they want, first."

[9/2/16, 9:33:51 PM] Rune: Thank you for helping out.

[9/2/16, 9:33:58 PM] Josh: Witch Hunter #1 nods.  "Who are you and what's your business?"

[9/2/16, 9:34:39 PM] Creed: "This is the mage guild, not the Witch Hunter HQ."

[9/2/16, 9:35:13 PM] Josh: Witch Hunter #2: "Our organizations are linked together.  Fer checks and balances and such."

[9/2/16, 9:35:34 PM] Josh: Witch Hunter #2: "Same goals, different functions."

[9/2/16, 9:36:00 PM] Rune: We're with the guard ourselves.

[9/2/16, 9:36:05 PM] Creed: "Right, but the mage guild is also available to the public."

[9/2/16, 9:36:15 PM] Rune: And we're both members of the guild, too.

[9/2/16, 9:36:29 PM] Rune: Well, all three of us, really, but that's not important.

[9/2/16, 9:37:05 PM] Josh: Witch Hunter #1 turns to #2.  "They said--" "I heard 'em.  You, white one, what's yer name?"

[9/2/16, 9:37:23 PM] Rune: Rune. Aegis division?

[9/2/16, 9:37:42 PM] Rune: You've probably heard of us, we've had a lot of very bad publicity.

[9/2/16, 9:37:51 PM] Quill: Ugh.  Really?  We don't point at you and say 'you, pink one!'

[9/2/16, 9:38:07 PM] Josh: Witch Hunter #2 pulls out a clipboard.  "Reginald...Roger...ah, here you are.  Ok, yer all good, go on then."

[9/2/16, 9:38:21 PM] Rune: Pink? ... he's more of a creamy-peach color, I think.

[9/2/16, 9:38:37 PM] Quill: Creamy Peach One just sounds filthy.

[9/2/16, 9:38:41 PM] Josh: They continue to ignore you as they open the doors to the guild hall.

[9/2/16, 9:38:56 PM] Rune: Oh, you're right! I didn't think of that. Sorry.

[9/2/16, 9:38:58 PM] Rune: Rune goes in!

[9/2/16, 9:39:36 PM] Josh: You guys enter and find a massive pile of papers at the front desk, actually blocking anyone sitting there.

[9/2/16, 9:39:41 PM] Quill: ((Our party has no creamy peach in it, I just realized.))

[9/2/16, 9:39:48 PM] Josh: ((Nope.))

[9/2/16, 9:40:03 PM] Josh: ((You don't even have your creamy-peach disguise anymore.))

[9/2/16, 9:40:20 PM] Rune: ((Correct. We only have one white person and she's only white with blue stripes anyway. And literal white.))

[9/2/16, 9:40:36 PM] Anna: Oh, wow. That pile alone is a feat of engineering. [afk for a bit]

[9/2/16, 9:40:45 PM] Josh: ((kk))

[9/2/16, 9:40:49 PM] Rune: ... why don't people hire secretaries?

[9/2/16, 9:40:53 PM] Rune: Hello?

[9/2/16, 9:41:24 PM] Josh: A head pops through the massive pile of papers.  It is the bespectacled face of Hofine, the tiny elven evoker.

[9/2/16, 9:41:54 PM] Josh: Hofine's face lights up.  "HELLO!  Hi.  Good to see you again."

[9/2/16, 9:42:16 PM] Josh: Hofine: "Please tell me no one else has died."

[9/2/16, 9:42:51 PM] Creed: "Not yet."

[9/2/16, 9:42:59 PM] Josh: Hofine: "Oh good."

[9/2/16, 9:43:31 PM] Rune: Who's in charge right now?

[9/2/16, 9:43:54 PM] Josh: Hofine: "Sorry, we're a little backed up.  No new Guildmaster has been picked yet and Oserik was out stand-in, but...well...you know...and no one wants to take away from their studies to do the work anymore so..."

[9/2/16, 9:44:13 PM] Rune: ... what kind of work is it?

[9/2/16, 9:44:45 PM] Quill: Rune, you already volunteered to be William's secretary.  Don't spread yourself too thin.

[9/2/16, 9:45:14 PM] Josh: Hofine: "Signing permission to engage in experiments, keeping track of registered items in and out, dealing with orders from the Witch Hunters, orders from the Central Guild HQ, orders from the city..."

[9/2/16, 9:45:37 PM] Rune: .... you're right. But can't you hire a secretary for some of that, Hofine?

[9/2/16, 9:46:15 PM] Josh: Hofine: "Oh, I am sort of the secretary...but I'm not authorized to make decisions...and until a council meeting is held...no one is...so...it all...gets...piled...up."

[9/2/16, 9:46:29 PM] Quill: Or an apprentice?  Isn't that what they're for?  They do busy work for the master while learning?

[9/2/16, 9:47:02 PM] Josh: Hofine: "We'd like to appoint Tome, the librarian, as a temporary Guildmaster...but nobody's seen him for days...it happens."

[9/2/16, 9:47:07 PM] Rune: Well, if you're in charge, I want to officially let you know that we've found Max and we're going to teach him magic, so the guild needn't worry about him.

[9/2/16, 9:47:23 PM] Josh: Hofine: "...what's a Max?"

[9/2/16, 9:47:58 PM] Rune: A kid. He said he ran away from here after the mage hunters found him and brought him in.

[9/2/16, 9:48:04 PM] Rune: Also, I was hoping Koorak was in today.

[9/2/16, 9:48:29 PM] Josh: Hofine: "Oh, yeah, he's in his medical lab."

[9/2/16, 9:49:46 PM] Rune: But I really would like to make sure Max isn't being looked for or something.

[9/2/16, 9:50:21 PM] Josh: Hofine: "Um...that's not really my jurisdiction...Witch Hunters deal with escapees."

[9/2/16, 9:51:13 PM] Rune: Well, he's not an escapee, is what I'm telling you.

[9/2/16, 9:51:26 PM] Josh: Hofine: "Ok then."

[9/2/16, 9:51:47 PM] Rune: Could you write them a note from the Guild telling them that, please? I know you've a lot to do. Maybe we could send Gerald over to help or something.

[9/2/16, 9:52:08 PM] Josh: Hofine: "Ok...I'll write a note."

[9/2/16, 9:52:35 PM] Josh: Hofine: "Cause I guess I'm in charge now.  After being only two years out of school and with no history of doing this kind of thing."

[9/2/16, 9:52:43 PM] Josh: Hofine makes a strained face.  "Yay."

[9/2/16, 9:52:59 PM] Quill: They love it when people show initiative.

[9/2/16, 9:53:17 PM] Quill: Usually because it means they don't have to do stuff themselves.

[9/2/16, 9:53:35 PM] Rune: ... Quill is right, I can't do any more things right now. Well, maybe we can look for Tome. When and where did anybody see him last?

[9/2/16, 9:54:02 PM] Josh: Hofine: "He was in the library three days ago."

[9/2/16, 9:54:27 PM] Rune: Rune nods.

[9/2/16, 9:54:32 PM] Hank: And has the library been searched to look for him?

[9/2/16, 9:55:13 PM] Josh: Hofine: "Yeah but...it's not exactly the easiest place to find something...ironically."

[9/2/16, 9:56:05 PM] Rune: We'll go and drop Belza and Tiprus off with Koorak first, and then start looking.

[9/2/16, 9:56:09 PM] Creed: "I can vouch that what she is saying is true."

[9/2/16, 9:56:22 PM] Hank: We could probably split up now, we will be in the same building after all.

[9/2/16, 9:56:23 PM] Rune: I'll try my scrying spell first.

[9/2/16, 9:56:48 PM] Rune: But let's drop Belza and Tiprus off with Koorak first.

[9/2/16, 9:56:54 PM] Rune: ((That can be glossed if you want.))

[9/2/16, 9:57:18 PM] Josh: ((Sure))

[9/2/16, 9:57:37 PM] Josh: Koorak takes them in, and hides them in a bed in the back, in case a WH stumbles past.

[9/2/16, 9:57:43 PM] Josh: He promises to keep them safe.

[9/2/16, 9:58:12 PM] Rune: Rune tells him what happened and a couple things to check for and then does her scrying spell with a mirror.

[9/2/16, 9:58:32 PM] Josh: The mirror lights up and Rune goes into her trance.

[9/2/16, 10:00:31 PM] Rune: ... he's stuck in a web in the shelves. And he's horribly frightened and there are alive things around him.

[9/2/16, 10:00:39 PM] Rune: Well, let's go find him.

[9/2/16, 10:00:47 PM] Anna: Oh joy.

[9/2/16, 10:00:57 PM] Creed: "Anything around him?"

[9/2/16, 10:01:00 PM] Josh: Even as Rune's consciousness returns, the mirror still glows, as it did before.

[9/2/16, 10:01:12 PM] Anna: Got a direction?

[9/2/16, 10:01:17 PM] Rune: Voices, but I couldn't tell what.

[9/2/16, 10:01:24 PM] Creed: "Uh, your mirror is still glowing like it did before."

[9/2/16, 10:01:29 PM] Rune: Rune checks the mirror again.

[9/2/16, 10:01:31 PM] Creed: "You're not about to poof again, are you?"

[9/2/16, 10:01:37 PM] Rune: I don't think so.

[9/2/16, 10:01:49 PM] Josh: ((Do you touch it or just look at it?))

[9/2/16, 10:02:04 PM] Rune: Rune is still holding it from before.

[9/2/16, 10:02:15 PM] Josh: Ok then, Rune vanishes.

[9/2/16, 10:02:29 PM] Creed: Creed sighs

[9/2/16, 10:02:39 PM] Anna: Great.

[9/2/16, 10:02:44 PM] Creed: Creed eyes start to glow

[9/2/16, 10:03:17 PM] Quill: Did she take the mirror with her when she went?))

[9/2/16, 10:03:37 PM] Josh: ((yep))

[9/2/16, 10:04:13 PM] Creed: "Bleh, no magic trail this time."

[9/2/16, 10:04:33 PM] Quill: ((Are we in the library?))

[9/2/16, 10:05:18 PM] Creed: "Wait.."

[9/2/16, 10:05:27 PM] Creed: Creed narrows her eyes and starts to walk somewhere

[9/2/16, 10:05:38 PM] Quill: Quill follows.

[9/2/16, 10:05:50 PM] Hank: Hank follows as well

[9/2/16, 10:06:02 PM] Anna: Anna tags along.

[9/2/16, 10:07:33 PM] Josh: You follow, and follow, and it goes to the library.

[9/2/16, 10:08:07 PM] Creed: Creed eye light's click out

[9/2/16, 10:08:24 PM] Creed: "I'd rather not look at a magical library while looking at bright lights."

[9/2/16, 10:08:46 PM] Creed: "She's probably with Tome."

[9/2/16, 10:09:04 PM] Quill: Well, yeah, but it sounded like he was in trouble.  Where did she get that mirror?

[9/2/16, 10:09:20 PM] Creed: "I never saw it before she vanished to be with you guys."

[9/2/16, 10:09:40 PM] Anna: Me neither.

[9/2/16, 10:10:14 PM] Hank: We can ask her after we find her , I think that takes precedence here.

[9/2/16, 10:10:47 PM] Josh: ((It was the photographer's.  Creed and Anna saw it.))

[9/2/16, 10:11:04 PM] Creed: (( ah ))

[9/2/16, 10:11:23 PM] Anna: [derp.]

[9/2/16, 10:11:24 PM] Creed: Creed asks the library to help them find Rune and Tome.

[9/2/16, 10:11:34 PM] Quill: Quill is keeping an ear out.

[9/2/16, 10:11:43 PM] Josh: Creed, roll persuasion.

[9/2/16, 10:12:02 PM] Creed: (18)

[9/2/16, 10:12:21 PM] Josh: There's a groaning noise as you see the bookshelves move, as if to form a path.

[9/2/16, 10:12:42 PM] Creed: Creed follows the path that it seemingly lays out

[9/2/16, 10:13:11 PM] Quill: Quill does as well.

[9/2/16, 10:14:36 PM] Anna: Anna does so, also, making sure not to bump anything.

[9/2/16, 10:15:53 PM] Hank: Hank is in back, also following.

[9/2/16, 10:16:18 PM] Josh: Eventually, all five of you meet up again.  With a tiefling in tow.

[9/2/16, 10:16:57 PM] Rune: I found him! And I don't think that's a proper scrying spell, Taeral.

[9/2/16, 10:17:04 PM] Josh: The tiefling looks, at first, like a very pale human, but closer inspection shows weirdly miscolored eyes and two tiny stubby horns on his forehead, mostly hidden by hair.

[9/2/16, 10:17:25 PM] Anna: Are you two alright?

[9/2/16, 10:17:28 PM] Josh: Taeral: "It does seem to be a bit buggy.  It never did that for me, I assure you."

[9/2/16, 10:17:45 PM] Quill: It's probably a magic mirror.

[9/2/16, 10:17:50 PM] Rune: Yes. There's a sewn-together pig man in there and he was going to eat him. So we should probably find him and, well. Stop him.

[9/2/16, 10:18:03 PM] Rune: But it's not. This isn't even the same mirror I used last time, I gave that one back.

[9/2/16, 10:19:48 PM] Rune: I assumed the last time it was because there was a thin spot, planarly speaking.

[9/2/16, 10:20:00 PM] Hank: Why is there a carnivorous pigman in a library?

[9/2/16, 10:20:11 PM] Rune: Well all pigs are carnivorous really.

[9/2/16, 10:20:25 PM] Rune: Omnivorous. So are people.

[9/2/16, 10:21:10 PM] Hank: Fair point, should we at least get the librarian to safety first?

[9/2/16, 10:21:31 PM] Rune: Oh, yes.

[9/2/16, 10:21:36 PM] Quill: Quill nods.  "Good idea.

[9/2/16, 10:21:42 PM] Rune: (( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u3qy4Zv4snI ))

[9/2/16, 10:22:09 PM] Josh: Voice: "Too late for that, I'm afraid.

[9/2/16, 10:23:21 PM] Josh: A figure drops from the ceiling, a woman, but with long, terrible spider legs sticking out of her torso, a dozen eyes on he bald head, each one appearing to have been sewn on, and a mouth, too big for her head, with fangs inside.

[9/2/16, 10:24:08 PM] Josh: Spider-Woman: "You have fallen into my web, little insects, and I will not make the same mistake twice.  You shall all die here!"

[9/2/16, 10:24:24 PM] Rune: Oh, ugh!

[9/2/16, 10:24:34 PM] Rune: Rune scrambles back a bit.

[9/2/16, 10:24:36 PM] Josh: Two more figures jump out behind her.  The pig-man and a hyena-woman.

[9/2/16, 10:24:42 PM] Anna: I am inedible, unless you want leprosy.

[9/2/16, 10:24:52 PM] Rune: Taeral, your boyfriend was the WORST.

[9/2/16, 10:25:08 PM] Quill: Quill just stares at her.  "Who writes your dialogue?  Because you should FIRE THEM."

[9/2/16, 10:25:12 PM] Josh: Taeral: "I am really starting to figure that out."

[9/2/16, 10:25:28 PM] Josh: Ok, everyone...roll initiative.

[9/2/16, 10:27:58 PM] Josh: Ok...Hank, you're first.

[9/2/16, 10:29:03 PM] Hank: ((Can I reach the spider?))

[9/2/16, 10:29:35 PM] Josh: Yes.

[9/2/16, 10:29:42 PM] Josh: She is right in front of you.

[9/2/16, 10:29:47 PM] Josh: Like, 25ft ahead.

[9/2/16, 10:30:09 PM] Hank: Then I will attack her

[9/2/16, 10:30:22 PM] Josh: Ok. Roll your attack.

[9/2/16, 10:30:53 PM] Josh: The first attack hits.  The second does not.

[9/2/16, 10:30:56 PM] Creed: (( I'll be honest, for a second I thought spider lady was rune and I got scared ))

[9/2/16, 10:31:08 PM] Josh: ((lol))

[9/2/16, 10:31:31 PM] Josh: Is that your whole turn?

[9/2/16, 10:32:16 PM] Hank: I will use a bonus action to push her towards the bookshelves on the left

[9/2/16, 10:32:40 PM] Josh: ((...ok...is there a save they have to make or does it just happen?))

[9/2/16, 10:34:35 PM] Josh: ((...hello?))

[9/2/16, 10:35:04 PM] Hank: ((Looking it up one second))

[9/2/16, 10:35:10 PM] Josh: ((kk))

[9/2/16, 10:35:59 PM] Hank: It says try to shove a creature within five feet of you with your shield

[9/2/16, 10:36:18 PM] Hank: ((No specifics though so up to you))

[9/2/16, 10:36:36 PM] Hank: ((Page 170 of you want to check))

[9/2/16, 10:36:39 PM] Josh: Ok, so you shove her 5-feet to the left?

[9/2/16, 10:36:56 PM] Hank: ((Yes))

[9/2/16, 10:37:47 PM] Josh: Ok, so, you run up and manage to smack her good with the hilt of your blade.  You swing to try and strike her and she knocks the sword away with one of her spidr-legs.  You double back and push her with your shield.

[9/2/16, 10:37:52 PM] Josh: And that's your turn.

[9/2/16, 10:37:54 PM] Josh: Rune.

[9/2/16, 10:38:19 PM] Rune: Rune casts Fly on Creed!

[9/2/16, 10:38:52 PM] Creed: "Um.. Rune?"

[9/2/16, 10:39:06 PM] Rune: Fly! go!

[9/2/16, 10:39:31 PM] Josh: Creed starts to awkwardly hover where she is.

[9/2/16, 10:39:45 PM] Creed: Creed spins in place

[9/2/16, 10:39:47 PM] Rune: Rune also casts a minor illusion of a littlish black dragon about the size of a large dog on the spider lady's other side.

[9/2/16, 10:39:51 PM] Creed: "How do I?!"

[9/2/16, 10:40:15 PM] Josh: Ok, unless you wanna move that's your turn.

[9/2/16, 10:41:01 PM] Josh: So, Jessica Drew goes now.

[9/2/16, 10:41:45 PM] Josh: The spider woman turns to Hank and strikes at him twice.

[9/2/16, 10:42:18 PM] Josh: And misses both times (and so it begins).

[9/2/16, 10:42:46 PM] Josh: She uses her final attack to attempt a bite.

[9/2/16, 10:43:01 PM] Josh: And gets nothing but armor.

[9/2/16, 10:43:19 PM] Josh: ...I am buying some new dice before next game.

[9/2/16, 10:43:24 PM] Creed: Lol

[9/2/16, 10:43:33 PM] Creed: Remember, don't get the pretty ones!

[9/2/16, 10:43:33 PM] Hank: ((It hasn't even been 24 hours and another creature is trying to bite Hank.))

[9/2/16, 10:43:47 PM] Creed: (( PTSD?? maybe? ))

[9/2/16, 10:44:00 PM] Josh: Anyway, now pig-guy goes.

[9/2/16, 10:44:18 PM] Josh: Hey, Rune, what's your spell DC?

[9/2/16, 10:44:26 PM] Josh: Should say on your sheet.

[9/2/16, 10:45:41 PM] Rune: ((Um.))

[9/2/16, 10:45:54 PM] Quill: ((On the spellbook page.))

[9/2/16, 10:46:05 PM] Rune: ((14.))

[9/2/16, 10:46:08 PM] Rune: ((I think.))

[9/2/16, 10:46:18 PM] Josh: ((...hahaha, oh this is gonna be great)).

[9/2/16, 10:46:30 PM] Creed: (( oh boy ))

[9/2/16, 10:46:44 PM] Josh: The boar, looking forward goes wide-eyed and screams.  "DRAGON!!!!!!"

[9/2/16, 10:46:46 PM] Creed: (( DM's tricks are finally activating ))

[9/2/16, 10:47:02 PM] Josh: He lungs forward and swings this giant mallet he's carrying with him.

[9/2/16, 10:47:32 PM] Josh: ...and rolls a hit and a natural twenty.

[9/2/16, 10:47:37 PM] Josh: On the spider-lady.

[9/2/16, 10:48:09 PM] Creed: Oh boy.

[9/2/16, 10:48:22 PM] Josh: For a total of 27 points of damage as he just blindly wails in her direction.  THWACK THWACK

[9/2/16, 10:48:41 PM] Quill: ((Dragons are scary, yo.))

[9/2/16, 10:48:48 PM] Josh: Spider-Lady: "STOP!  OW!  STOPPIT!"

[9/2/16, 10:48:58 PM] Josh: Creed!  You're up.

[9/2/16, 10:49:22 PM] Josh: ((Of course I only roll a twenty on my own monster.))

[9/2/16, 10:49:54 PM] Creed: Creed wobbles over to spider lady, above her

[9/2/16, 10:50:16 PM] Creed: (( do I get benefits for being literally above her? ))

[9/2/16, 10:50:52 PM] Josh: ((Um...given you are above her and she is assaulted on all side...I'll give you adv.))

[9/2/16, 10:51:08 PM] Creed: (( I'm using my shortsword ))

[9/2/16, 10:51:15 PM] Josh: ((Ok))

[9/2/16, 10:51:25 PM] Creed: (( 8 piercing damage ))

[9/2/16, 10:51:45 PM] Creed: and bonus action to cloak herself in darkness, along with the space above her.

[9/2/16, 10:52:37 PM] Josh: ((Short sword is finesse, you get sneak attack))

[9/2/16, 10:52:45 PM] Creed: (( nice! ))

[9/2/16, 10:52:51 PM] Josh: Also, are you also in darkness

[9/2/16, 10:52:59 PM] Creed: 17 total damage then.

[9/2/16, 10:53:42 PM] Josh: Just the spiderlady in darkness?

[9/2/16, 10:53:54 PM] Creed: Yes.

[9/2/16, 10:53:59 PM] Josh: Ok.

[9/2/16, 10:54:17 PM] Josh: A tiny cloud of darkness forms around the spider-lady.

[9/2/16, 10:54:22 PM] Josh: Quill.  You're up.

[9/2/16, 10:54:40 PM] Quill: ((What's the Hyena lady doing?))

[9/2/16, 10:55:04 PM] Josh: Preparing to attack.

[9/2/16, 10:55:29 PM] Josh: Possibly a little too dumbfounded by all that's happened to have done something.

[9/2/16, 10:56:31 PM] Quill: Quill calls over to her.  "We have a dragon. You're outmatched.  You're on the wrong side.  You should be helping us."  ((Suggestion.  DC 15.))

[9/2/16, 10:56:52 PM] Josh: ((What is the save?))

[9/2/16, 10:56:59 PM] Quill: ((Oh, Wisdom.))

[9/2/16, 10:57:04 PM] Josh: ((Ok))

[9/2/16, 10:57:32 PM] Josh: She looks over at you, then around her, then back at you.  She looks very uncertain.

[9/2/16, 10:57:42 PM] Josh: Anything else for your turn?

[9/2/16, 10:59:10 PM] Quill: Quill looks over at Hank.  "You got this.  You killed vampires!  You faced a black dragon!  She's just a pseudo drider!"  ((Inspiration.))

[9/2/16, 10:59:34 PM] Rune: To be completely fair, Hank does look delicious.

[9/2/16, 10:59:36 PM] Josh: Ok.  Hank, you have a d8 to add to a roll.

[9/2/16, 10:59:45 PM] Josh: Anna.

[9/2/16, 11:01:13 PM] Anna: Anna will cast moonbeam over the pigman and spiderlady.

[9/2/16, 11:01:39 PM] Josh: Ok.  What's the save for that, again?

[9/2/16, 11:02:25 PM] Anna: [constitution. shapechangers get disadv.]

[9/2/16, 11:02:35 PM] Josh: ((And what do they have to beat))

[9/2/16, 11:02:52 PM] Anna: [14]

[9/2/16, 11:03:31 PM] Josh: Ok, the pig-man fails, but spider-lady makes her save.

[9/2/16, 11:03:43 PM] Josh: They each take damage accordingly.

[9/2/16, 11:03:52 PM] Josh: Hyena woman goes.

[9/2/16, 11:04:08 PM] Josh: She's going to charge the dark void where spider-lady is.

[9/2/16, 11:04:36 PM] Josh: A hit and a miss, even at disadv.

[9/2/16, 11:05:03 PM] Josh: She deals 7 more damage to spider lady.

[9/2/16, 11:05:13 PM] Josh: Hank.

[9/2/16, 11:05:31 PM] Josh: Keep in mind, your attacks on spider-lady are at disadv. because of darkness.

[9/2/16, 11:06:14 PM] Hank: I will still go for an attack on her

[9/2/16, 11:06:20 PM] Josh: Ok.

[9/2/16, 11:06:55 PM] Hank: I will use the d8

[9/2/16, 11:06:59 PM] Josh: Ok.

[9/2/16, 11:07:17 PM] Josh: With inspiration, the second attack hits.

[9/2/16, 11:07:39 PM] Hank: and the first?

[9/2/16, 11:07:44 PM] Josh: Misses at disadv.

[9/2/16, 11:07:52 PM] Hank: ok

[9/2/16, 11:08:00 PM] Josh: Anything else?

[9/2/16, 11:08:23 PM] Hank: no

[9/2/16, 11:08:30 PM] Josh: Ok.  Rune.

[9/2/16, 11:09:34 PM] Rune: Rune casts Web in an attempt to hinder the baddies!

[9/2/16, 11:11:02 PM] Josh: Ok.

[9/2/16, 11:11:20 PM] Josh: Any bonus action spells?

[9/2/16, 11:11:37 PM] Rune: ((Oh, right!))

[9/2/16, 11:12:05 PM] Rune: Rune creates a second dragon, the twin of the first little dog-sized runt, this time just on the other side of the pigman.

[9/2/16, 11:12:16 PM] Josh: Ok.

[9/2/16, 11:12:22 PM] Josh: Now, spider-lady goes.

[9/2/16, 11:12:25 PM] Josh: Anna, roll damage.

[9/2/16, 11:13:22 PM] Josh: Ok, she takes some more damage...things are not going well for her.

[9/2/16, 11:13:49 PM] Josh: She does break free of the webs.

[9/2/16, 11:14:01 PM] Josh: She will use her action to disengage.

[9/2/16, 11:15:00 PM] Josh: A stream of web comes out of the darkness, aiming for the opposite bookshelf...and misses falling to the floor.

[9/2/16, 11:15:20 PM] Josh: She runs out of the darkness and around and ends her turn.

[9/2/16, 11:15:35 PM] Josh: Pig-Man goes.

[9/2/16, 11:15:55 PM] Josh: He also takes half-damage from Anna's moonbeam.

[9/2/16, 11:16:19 PM] Josh: But he does not break free of the webs and is stuck there.

[9/2/16, 11:16:21 PM] Josh: Creed.

[9/2/16, 11:16:55 PM] Creed: Bonus action to move the darkness over spider lady, and a move action to fly above the furthest enemy and strike at them

[9/2/16, 11:17:27 PM] Josh: Ok, roll to attack.

[9/2/16, 11:17:34 PM] Creed: crap

[9/2/16, 11:17:41 PM] Josh: Fortunately, with darkness and flight you have adv. so that hits.

[9/2/16, 11:17:46 PM] Creed: oh thank goodness

[9/2/16, 11:17:53 PM] Creed: so 4 damage

[9/2/16, 11:17:54 PM] Josh: roll sneak attack.

[9/2/16, 11:18:08 PM] Creed: 12 total.

[9/2/16, 11:18:17 PM] Josh: You stab.  She still stands.

[9/2/16, 11:18:19 PM] Josh: Quill.

[9/2/16, 11:20:13 PM] Quill: Quill will take a couple of Eldritch blasts at the Spider Lady, HExing her first.  ((I get two blasts now, at 5th level.))

[9/2/16, 11:20:42 PM] Josh: Ok.  Either roll at disadv. or she gets a save at adv. because darkness.

[9/2/16, 11:21:39 PM] Josh: Yeah, you roll a spell attack at disadv.

[9/2/16, 11:21:50 PM] Josh: That hits.

[9/2/16, 11:21:58 PM] Josh: They both hit.

[9/2/16, 11:22:01 PM] Josh: And add hex.

[9/2/16, 11:22:19 PM] Quill: ((Do I add Hex to both or just one?))

[9/2/16, 11:22:31 PM] Josh: Add both.

[9/2/16, 11:22:57 PM] Quill: ((17 total damage))

[9/2/16, 11:23:05 PM] Josh: You hear a final cry of pain, and then her body slumps out of the darkness...dead.

[9/2/16, 11:23:22 PM] Josh: Anna.

[9/2/16, 11:24:22 PM] Josh: ...Anna?

[9/2/16, 11:25:32 PM] Anna: Anna casts Shillelagh and steps up to help with the pigman.

[9/2/16, 11:25:45 PM] Josh: Ok.

[9/2/16, 11:26:05 PM] Josh: Pig guy is the one in both squares.

[9/2/16, 11:26:13 PM] Josh: Roll to attack.

[9/2/16, 11:27:12 PM] Anna: [[13?]]

[9/2/16, 11:27:32 PM] Josh: Let me check something

[9/2/16, 11:28:05 PM] Josh: Because it is restrained, you have adv.

[9/2/16, 11:28:11 PM] Josh: So, that hits.

[9/2/16, 11:28:36 PM] Josh: Hyena-Woman goes now.

[9/2/16, 11:29:33 PM] Josh: And, with a critical hit, she tears his throat out.

[9/2/16, 11:29:44 PM] Josh: The hyena woman turns to you.  "I surrender"

[9/2/16, 11:29:58 PM] Anna: Alright.

[9/2/16, 11:30:05 PM] Rune: Fair enough.

[9/2/16, 11:30:09 PM] Josh: Hyena: "There's one more in the bookshelves.  I'll take him and go."

[9/2/16, 11:30:29 PM] Josh: Hyena turns and runs.

[9/2/16, 11:30:50 PM] Josh: You guys see a burst of light around a corner...and then...you hear nothing.

[9/2/16, 11:31:03 PM] Josh: And, if people are willing, I'd like to stop here.