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| Elemental Knight | Nov 5 2015, 04:36 PM Post #391 |
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Knight of the Spread Sheet
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So this one came from a side-session, and I was the player, rather than the GM this time. I’ll be quoting a fair bit of it here, and it also requires a fair bit of background, so strap in - this’ll take a while! Background And now, the actual tale. The Tale ...And that’s how I’ve now asked my character’s friends and allies to jump into a war that’s half Starship Troopers and half Frozen. |
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| Nacho_Rocket | Nov 6 2015, 02:23 PM Post #392 |
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Pokémon Trainer
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I mentioned on the "Things Mr. Ericson is no longer allowed to do" thread how a friend of mine was a GM for a game of D&D liked using an NPC called "Trusty Patches". He usually popped up every other quest as a way to open up side quests or find rewards at the expense of harder difficulty (down some kind of pit or cliff). The players eventually became so paranoid of whenever they got near any kind of ledge that one of the players began developing his character to resist being pushed. The final session involved them to slay a clan of necromancers in their fortified keep. The only problem was that the path leading up to the fort was a long winding path bordering jagged cliffs. The players were terrified the entire time that Patches would appear to and push one of them off as usual, but he never showed up. It wasn't until they began the final fight with the BBG that Patches appeared in the crowd of undead as a zombie minion. The players, when they saw him, raced each other to kill him first. |
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| GrayGriffin | Nov 30 2015, 01:20 AM Post #393 |
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"Ah, you unmasked me. Whatever shall I do."
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So, one of my PBP games is coming to an end, and we've decided to do the finale live on roll20. Now, long ago, when one of our players was doing a gym battle by PBP while the other two weren't, our GM gave us two non-gym challengers each a GM point, which he said could be spent later on to give us a special bonus. And I've saved mine until now. In my last set of purchases before the finale, I bought a King's Rock for my character, flavoring it as a shepherd's crown, since in his backstory he came from a shepherding family, before he set out on a journey and then everything went wrong. I asked the GM if I could use the GM point to turn the shepherd's crown into something much more powerful. It was approved. The new version of the King's Rock is now a neck-slot item, wearable as a necklace, and it also grants the flinch chance to all of my character's Pokemon. It also allows him to use Detect twice per scene, but it can be used to interrupt an attack aimed at any of his allies. As an added bonus, when used against an AOE attack, it allows everyone to avoid said AOE. It immediately proved its worth in our next boss battle, against a Heatran. Most of our fighters are melee-based, so we were grouped around him most of the time. So he started using repeated Lava Plumes, and I was able to use the Detect effect to avoid it twice. Later, after slowing him with a Scary Face, thanks to a Pack Hunt combo and the all-team flinch chance, we were able to flinch him and finish him next turn. |
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| GrayGriffin | Dec 8 2015, 12:50 AM Post #394 |
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"Ah, you unmasked me. Whatever shall I do."
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Well, tonight's game was a doozy. You could probably call it a Wham Episode. Remember what happened back here? The presence possessing our ally revealed itself to be Arceus, who had traded that character's life for my character's. He promised that he would be able to tell us a lot more about what was going on. During our downtime sessions, he acted as a pretty reliable informant, letting us know more about his past and the place he had come from. Well, tonight our characters went up against our rival team, who were trying to open a rift above the city. Mainly because one of our rivals was the dead character's brother, who was planning on summoning and capturing Arceus to bring said brother back. Everyone was trying to talk him down, or destroy the rift-making machine, but we failed and the rift opened anyways. Then we learned that the possessing force wasn't Arceus. It was Missingno. Everyone who tried to attack him was repelled and slammed to the ground, and my character went near-catatonic when she realized she had basically let him live in her house and learn all about her family. Luckily, at this time Looker appeared with a Celebi, bringing us and everyone but the leader of the rivals (who has probably been turned into another of Missingno's puppets) into a pocket dimension, where we learned what has really been going on. (Hopefully) And now we're about to go into our own minds to fight our inner demons and come out of this stronger. Or die. |
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| LichLord | Dec 8 2015, 12:30 PM Post #395 |
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Genderless Chittering Horror
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It really doesn't help those were really the only attacks I hit with that were blocked. Yay. |
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| TenabreTrevellian | Dec 27 2015, 09:32 PM Post #396 |
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Pokémon Trainer
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So tonight I killed one of the PCs. Picture Izzy, a Miasmic/Poison Ace/Trickster, who's an orphan from a toxic planet. So toxic, in fact, that he needs to wear a gas mask on normal atmosphere's so they can work properly. He's a curious soul, and he loves Poison Pokemon, going so far as to antagonise wild Poison Pokemon just so he has an excuse to catch them. One day it went too far. A cave on a new, previously unexplored planet, was filled with a strange ore that was poisonous, causing the air to become musty so that if normal people and pokemon spent too long inside, they'd become poisoned, and badly poisoned. Izzy took off his mask and found he could breathe, and so whilst the others took this as a sign to run out of the cave. Izzy stayed behind to explore and ran into some Poison/Rock shifted Carbink. A fight began, and he ended up taking out three of these Carbink with Hazmat, his Koffing Starter, exploding. He explored deeper, and a forth Carbink, angry at the unprovoked attack of its friends, throw rocks at him. A few rounds with crits later, Izzy was down, falling into the water next to him. One of his party mates had a Starly Pokebot watching the fight, sending Pokebots in to help but doing hardly anything. This provoked Lucas to go and save Izzy, who's Seviper was attempting to fish him out of the water. The fight continued as Lucas rushed past, trying to get Izzy out of the cave and into the fresh air. Izzy, without his gasmask, his lungs full of water, had taken too much. He was laid down and Merricat, the groups medic, attempted to look him over. She knew there was nothing she could do. Dane looked over his aura, and saw it was fading. Lucas cried out over Izzy's body, trying anything and everything, poison vials might do something, putting him back in the cave, anything so that Izzy would not die. Time, by Hans Zimmer, played, as Izzy's Pokemon released from their Pokeballs. His Dustox settled in a tree nearby, before flying off. His Seviper and Ekans slithered away after mourning. His Nidorino, hatched from an egg as a little Nidoran, lay next to him and cried. His Koffing, still fainted itself, rolled out of the ball and lay next to Izzy's head. Lucas plead with anything that'd listen for Izzy to not be dead. Merricat sat with the new Pokemon they'd helped, giving them space. Dane looked forlornly over the desert. Izzy faded away. That was the end of todays session, I shed a tear over it. |
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| Laterose13 | Feb 12 2016, 03:27 PM Post #397 |
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Pokémon Trainer
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My group was in the middle of Viridian Forest and fighting off a few wild Pokemon. The Fairy Elementalist decided to go right up next to an opponent and use Disarming Voice, and was happy when he rolled a crit. Then he realized that it was a Burst, not a single target. And he was right next to both his own Pokemon and a party member as well. It ended with his own Pokemon KOed, the enemy KOed, his party member KOed, and his party member's Pokemon about to attack him. All while Credens Justitiam was blaring in the background. All of us were incapacitated with laughter for several minutes. |
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| Arthu | Feb 13 2016, 10:12 PM Post #398 |
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Pokémon Trainer
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I once played a campaign were my character, Presley, was shot at. But despite being hit with a bullet, the GM rolled the minimum damage possible. So I described the bullet being stopped by one of his crappy country cds he used to try to sell to every trainer he defeated. Still in the subject of death, as a novice player who didn't understand the Enduring Soul mechanics very well, Presley pushed his Psyduck to death. Psyduck's ghost, Presley's grief and resentment of allowing his precious partner die because he wanted to win a gym battle were a constant on the campaign. He went from stupid comic relief to the character who had the most emotional baggage and stake at succeeding. PT was the only game where anything like that would happen, so I'm so glad it exists. Edited by Arthu, Feb 14 2016, 10:38 AM.
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| strikeblaze | Feb 14 2016, 12:39 AM Post #399 |
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Pokémon Trainer
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When my group decided to stop for the night next to the lake, one of the trainers currently had a wild pichu as a companion and it decided to go outside to answer natures call, and he followed it, during the time they were awake they encountered a legendary pokemon in the water that decided to eventually splash them in the face with water. (they rolled a nat 20 for their event). Later the following morning, someone rolled a nat 1 for their event and the fierce-some boss of the lake appeared, Mega Gyrados came right at them, the Medic/co-ordinator ran, the small 12yr old child, went into stealth right away and created 3 hiding bushes out of no where and hid. the two trainers of the group just stood their in awe as it went right up to their face and roared at them. Only to be then slapped in the face by of all people, the wild pichu. Entirely shocked and dumb founded, it submerged back into the water till eye level and stayed 100meters away from them. Everyone was so surprised what happen I think their heads all exploded on the inside. Moral of the story? Being blessed by a legendary has its benefits. |
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| Laterose13 | Feb 21 2016, 06:20 PM Post #400 |
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Pokémon Trainer
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I got another one! Last session, my party had received a tip about a caravan of loot belonging to the villains leaving the town. They went to go take care of it, but due to a well-placed sniper, somehow got into their heads that their informant had tipped off their targets. So this session, they looted the bodies and went to go check on their informant. Note that I had two different encounters that I was planning. I made up a quick explanation for the informant (he double-crossed them to get money from the villains for taking out the heroes) and expected them to leave it at that. Welp, after interrogating the guy, our Herald of Pride promptly thrust his lance at him with the intent to kill (he likes doing that). Our Maelstrom managed to convince our Glamour Weaver to save the guy (talking is a free action; I still don't know how she managed to convince him though) and he promptly 'took the bullet', or spear. So our Glamour Weaver is reduced to low HP (he had a low threshold because of earlier Injuries), the NPC runs off screaming, our Herald of Pride promptly aims another spear at the Glamour Weaver, mad at having the kill denied, and the Maelstrom grabs the Fairy and dashes for the Poke Center. At this point I actually have to call a 15 min intermission because I need to stat some law enforcement ASAP. We get back to it, the Herald goes after the guards surrounding him, the Shade Caller tries to stop the fight by using World of Darkness, and I roll a hit on an enemy Vanillite's Icicle Spear - 5-strikes have some notoriety in this group for being overpowered with STAB and sometimes OHKOing. I then roll max hit number. We all prepare for the worst, as the Herald is already below half HP. I roll damage, he's reduced to -80 (but still alive), and we end the session on a cliffhanger and the knowledge that next session is probably going to be some kind of jailbreak. None of which I either planned or even dreamed would happen. Smaller memorable things in another campaign include me possessing a PC's Hex Maniac with a Ghost-type and showing off just how powerful stat afflictions can be, and one character needing to roll a 3 or higher to save his starter from an attack and rolling a 2 on a 2d6. He tried to have this epic, slow-motion, take the bullet moment...and then tripped and fell flat on his face. |
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