And by some I mean at least two, though I doubt we're the only ones. I'll just copy paste an excerpt from our messages.

"we have no mods, we just have a 'nameless' admin everyone knows the identity of who has the power to delete and change posts as they please and noone questions this.

How is this preferable to actual moderation?"

I was wondering why the whole thread Ix started is gone. That's not usually done. Nuking troll posts, sure, but the whole thread? How come?

~Neshomeh

Maybe we got off to a bad start. Whatever, I'm not going to judge you this early.
So, welcome to the PPC, have a cup of Earl Grey as your welcome gift. So since you haven't mentioned it, what are your pronouns?

And the reason I don't buy it is because you're not stupid. You knew exactly how your post would be taken and you are now showing up - with the moniker Orwell, seriously, subtlety is a dying art - to complain about the fact that we don't have an active and empowered moderator class.

It is my personal belief that if we did so, you'd be long gone.

I don't buy what you're selling, and I've seen enough mock-contrition in my life to know it when it posts in the one community left that doesn't let me let it down. You have nothing positive to add and are merely trying to stir the pot for the sake of it. To reiterate Ix's point:-

DO NOT FEED THE TROLLS.

Then why are you so invested in how it's being run? Even if you have been a lurker for quite a while, you haven't actually taken part in it before. For someone who is unaffected by the moderation here, you seem very interested in it.

More to the point, what else interests you about the community? What kind of fandoms do you like? Is there anything that brings you here other than the current drama?

I would like to remind people that pretending to engage in reasonable debate while riling everybody up is still a form of trolling, and Orwell has shown themselves to be less than trustworthy.

I'm personally not opposed to actual moderation.

I also think we're doing fine without it.

I also think the people with the keys to the Board are fine, trustworthy people who had proved as much over many years of membership before the idea of the Nameless Admin was conceived, and have never done anything to abuse that power since.

It just doesn't seem worth the drama to me.

That said, if members of the Board who have participated under this system have actual grievances with it that they'd like to discuss, they should absolutely bring them up, but popping up out of lurkerdom just to complain at us doesn't seem in particularly good faith to me.

~Neshomeh

Which is lovely, it is. I love being helped out, personally. Lovely stuff. Always nice. Once somebody held the door open for me, and, let me tell you, I was more flattered than a pancake in an anvil-dropping factory.

But, really, even assuming you've got completely benevolent intentions, is this honestly the best way to go around with it?
Because, at least from my perspective, you're a total stranger, jumping in after a troll's hijinks (said troll quite fond of impersonating people,) posting an incredibly Toroll-esque (no offence, of course, but it was the sort of thing within the fellow's utility Toroll-belt) first post, and then suggesting a pretty decently large revamp of a system we've been (I assume, anyway) fine with for a while.

Now, I'm not necessarily saying you're wrong, or that your ideas are irrelevant and ought to get scrunched up and popped in the bin, but do you get where I'm coming from? Because, even the last one, on it's own, would be a bit weird, y'know?
You're not selling yourself very well, is what I'm saying.

Anyways, I hope you're not one've those trolls. It'd shake things up, anyway.
And, er. Welcome, I suppose!

And by some I mean at least two, though I doubt we're the only ones.

Who were you talking to, and what name were you using?

Also: you may note that the 'havoc' lasted less than ten hours. Hardly the crisis point you seem to be making it out to be.

hS

Lessee... if you're right, and the EM drive works, I'll post a recording of me singing/reading a Tolkien song/poem of your choice--even the Lay of Leithian!--and if I'm right (I hope I'm not, honestly), and the drive doesn't work, I'd like you to draw me a picture of that OC I never stop talking about, Amy. Deal? ^_^

-Alleb

If it works, I'd like you to draw me a picture of Agent Miguel Correa. If it doesn't, I'll...let's see...I'll record myself reading one of your missions (you tell me what agent team you want) and post it to the Board. (Probably as an embedded Tumblr vid or something.) Sound good?

Suppose human extinction takes a small step backwards, oy?

But, so, assuming the whole thing actually does work well, and we can pop up into space and knock about with the grey aliens and the mi-go and all the elastic bands that people have flicked slightly upwards, missed their targets, and are now orbiting the planet, what would we all actually do with it? I mean, for our first steps?
I mean, there's a whole lot of stuff about faffing with Mars, so I'd imagine we might do something there, and there's all that mining and probing and whatnot, but, y'know. Anything else, you reckon?

*squees for hours on end*
Humanity could be just about to get off this mudball for realsies!!! Of course, getting into the shallow end's easy- there are already private space flights. We just need a shuttle going to some kind of space dock for this glorious little microwave to sail out into the vacuum. If this works, that is FANTASTIC NEWS, and I will live my life in squalor saving up to go, if it means I get to see that vast empty (suck it up, Casimir) sea filled with shining stars, barren planets, and cottony nebulae!!!

And, fanboying aside, is no one gonna mention the theory all of this is based on? This fundamentally changes the way I understand physics! Particles could all be sailing on some ethereal sea, caught adrift in an invisible wind, and I hadn't the slightest clue!!! This is beautiful.

I truly hope this works as well as we think it does. At the moment, I'm far too happy people are willing to practically consider such a ridiculous idea (space wind!:D)as the means of propelling mankind across the solar system, to make that bet.

~~Aegis, who is geeking out over the fact that his laptop is running off the same stuff that could be powering a star drive if this ends up proven 100%

I'm in on the bet- but I'm going to take the Munroe side. I hereby bet a thousand words of short story (characters and prompt of the winner's choice) that when an em drive test device is launched, it will prove useless for space travel. (So, even if it only works inside the earth's magnetic field, I still lose. Low earth orbit reactions thrust is still huge.)

But seriously, holy carp, etc. Eagleworks is a big-name research group and you know they all walked into this one as skeptically as any physicist would be when given a perpetual motion machine. And this was peer-reviewed, too, which is another layer of skeptical physicists.

(Some restrictions apply on what I am willing to write, etc.)

Fingers crossed that the results can be replicated! And fingers crossed that your average Joe will be able to go into space within my lifetime. I've always wanted to see the stars...

Way too good. Suspiciously so.

I bet my socks that research teams worldwide are scrambling to replicate these results and verify the Eagleworks paper. There are multiple sources or error for this experiment and every single one of them can spell doom for the conclusion of this article-- but I want to be proven wrong.

This is uncharted territory. Should the EM drive be proven to work, the entire solar system is ours for the taking. The stars are still too far away-- a hypothetical trip to Proxima Centauri would take the better part of a decade-- but I'd argue that our solar system is more than enough already.

For now, cautious interest should be the name of the game. We have an anomalous situation on our hands-- we need to investigate it.


Also, inb4 all of the trash science news claims we invented a stardrive. It's not been 100% proven yet, jeez.

If this is real, and the stars are in our grasp at last... we might actually have a shot at this whole "species" lark. We're not just angry monkeys with delusions of grandeur, we are beings capable of thought and achievement.

We are lightning bolts that learned to dream.

Argh!
Drat!

Happy birthday!
Happy post-birthday birthday!

My gift to you is an interdimensional portal, so that you can travel to a universe in which I actually congratulated your birthday on time.

Argh!
Drat!

Only difference, far as I can tell.

Happy birthday, Palin.

I'm afraid human biology doesn't work that way. But congratulations on living this far! You will have a wonderful life ahead of you, I can just feel it!

HAPPY HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU
MAY ALL YOUR WISHES COME TRUE
HOPE NOBODY MAKES YOU BLUE
AND YOUR CAKE DOESN'T EXPLODE IN GOO!

*blows noisemakers*

Head over to the Other Board, or use this link: https://ppc-posting-board-2-proto.herokuapp.com/posts/4363 to get there.

So, SWATCOTHA (the dungeon crawler-esque RP) is now finished, I completed the health and rejigged some of the mechanics last night. It is now ready to go whenever you want it to.

Toktu (the Pokemon RP) now has Pokemon inhabiting its routes (with around 500 Pokemon available from the first 6 Gens), however this is still a bit on the back-burner seeing as more people seem to like SWATCOTHA (which I'm starting to regret giving such a long name to that even its acronym is still fairly long).

Storme Hawk

I'd probably be confined to the dungeon one given a reprehensible unfamiliarity with most Pokemon mechanics, but both sound interesting.

Mind sharing some details on the dungeon crawler premise? Time, place, history, that sort of thing?

Please have a pot of black-hole coffee. Now, all the questions were asked, so only thing left is to wish you welcome to the madhouse.

I hope you have fun here! and don't worry I am a shy person too.

Please accept your starter Pokémon:-

Iiiiiit's Fomantis!

And your starting item is:-

Galactic Medal of Valour from Enter The Gungeon!

GMoV is an interesting item, kind of like a reverse Eviolite. It can't be given to a fully-evolved Pokémon, but when equipped, the holder's attacks deal double damage to, and have 30% increased accuracy when targeting, fully-evolved Pokémon. Fomatis' stats might be, er, not brilliant, but with this item it can deal considerable damage. Get a Modest one with the ability Contrary and give it EVs in Special Attack and HP, give it Choice Specs, and run Leaf Storm, Giga Drain, Weather Ball, and Protect. Run it in sunlight and you should be pretty much golden, but remember: the important thing is to have fun. =]

Have one of my own shed feathers and a complimentary kit of Spikes!

Please have this best hamster as a welcome gift.

It's very nice to meet you. Here are some boxes of movie-theater popcorn to eat while you read the Original Series, other important documents at the top of the Board homepage, and any other spinoffs that catch your eye! Enjoy your stay! :)

Heeeeeeeey, Ecks-overcreator! Heeeeeeey, my old mate, my old pal, from the good old days on the Discord. Those good old six minutes ago days.

My gift upon you is a relic. An artefact - from the good old days, the golden years. Of six minutes ago.
Yes, that's right: a digital watch! A sign of the times, a thing of the six minutes ago. I truly hope it brings you good memories.
Of six minutes ago, when I said 'hello' to you, on Discord.

Welcome!

It's a Hoe! Tilling land with this one grows random copies of our Original Series. Speaking of which, have you read it yet? It's practically required reading around here.

Generic welcome is generic! Mind sharing your favorite fandoms with us?

. . . I hope it was a good one when it happened.

--Key

Managed to cling to a mudball hurtling 'round the nuclear mulberry bush at 108,000 kilometers an hour for another whole circle! You're to be congratulated on your persistence.

Really, the accomplishment is its own reward- anything else would just be overly charitable, I think.

Happy birthday!

Harpy barofday!

I grift you: the spirit of birthdaymas!

Hurzah!

Here, have an otter with a terrible pun and my best wishes.

BARFDAY, YAY.

I hope you have a wonderful birthday, whether you're doing something to celebrate it or not, and I wish you the best of years between now and your next birthday. *hands fluffy animals because OF COURSE fluffy animals. It's not a birthday without them. Or maybe it is. Either way, floof!*

Also, hey, we're roughly a month apart! :)

~DF

I mean if it is basically Hanharr (KotOR2) with Lightsabers (which was actually the original plan) then it could work. But keep in mind Lucas himself was the one who wanted to reign in the Wookie Jedi. It could be doable though.

I don't think Jedi - or Sith, particularly (are Dark Jedi a thing in the Disneyverse?) - are particularly prone to worrying about physical strength. Why bother, when you can use the Force to do anything? So I don't know that 'he's strong' would be... relevant, even.

Any Darksider is going to run the risks of Suvianness, given that they're powerful, self-centred, and evil. You have to watch out for it the same as you do with any other character of the type.

hS

Enjoy your, um. Families. Turkey, or something. Um. Fireworks?
Declaration of Independence?
... Easter Bunny?

Yeah! Enjoy all that!
Unless this is a mourning thing, then don't enjoy all that!
That'd be rude.

May we be thankful for food and having the ability to access the internet.

I commandeer this thread for recipes y'all are making this Thanksgiving. Some tasty treats to fill your belly as we give thanks to this bountiful harvest. of Monsanto

To start us off, have any of you played a game called Undertale? Well, even if you haven't, you should still try this delicious Butterscotch Cinnamon Pie! It kinda tastes like bread pudding, with a splash of butterscotch, and in a pie. What more could you want?
Recipe: http://www.geekychef.com/2016/02/toriels-butterscotch-cinnamon-pie.html?m=0

That one time of year that people are obligated to spend with me, the crazy relative. Huzzah!

Just another boring day here. Well, except for the massive amounts of fires we have had in the last few days.

Enjoy your holiday/day off!

~DF

The story of Thanksgiving is that when strangers land on these shores, sick and hungry, fleeing persecution, we don't reject them. We welcome them. We feed them. We extend the hand of friendship.

Today, I'm thankful for everyone who lives the spirit of that story.

Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame,
With conquering limbs astride from land to land;
Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand
A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame
Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name
Mother of Exiles. From her beacon-hand
Glows world-wide welcome; her mild eyes command
The air-bridged harbor that twin cities frame.

"Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!" cries she
With silent lips. "Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"

—"The New Colossus" by Emma Lazarus, American poet

~Neshomeh

*wanders off to nom the noms*

And, uh, why are you looking at me like that? I'm nobody's turkey!

*goes back to celebrating with microwaved hot dogs and Chinese food*

Virro: (10) Looking through the scrolls in the chest, you find a battered old scroll that, despite its state, absolutely reeks of necromantic power (if such a thing could smell that is). Picking it up, you read it (silently of course, you don't want to accidentally do something with it whilst you're not prepared), and you realise you have stumbled across an artifact long thought a myth by most necromancers. The Scroll of Black Death, is an artifact with a mind of its own, only letting its finder have a certain number of uses of it before it disappears to be found by the next necromantic prodigy. You instinctively know you have 7 uses of this scroll before it leaves your hands forever, an you can use these uses to either: Raise a loyal Zombie Lord from a dead corpse in the same room as you, Deal 1D20 damage to every living thing in a room other than yourself, and heal undead and yourself by the same amount, Or Control every undead creature in the room and keep them under your command indefinitely.

Evard: ()

Uriel: (7) You manage to work out that there are absolutely zero secret passages or hidden traps of any kind in this room at all. You also manage to sneak a quick look at the map https://s7.postimg.org/ymlalaky3/SWATCOTHA_full_map.png

Keegra: (9) You find some bracers that have the same styling as your belt. Sure enough they are Bracers of Monk Training and give you a bonus to fighting unarmed.

Xiv'riit: (11) You find what would look to most like a simple robe, however you are able to see through the illusion and know it is a Robe of the Elements, a rare set of Cleric robes given to exceptional Shardmind Clerics. Praying your Gods won't mind you wearing it, you put it on, and feeling no damnation coming for you, you think they do not mind. Now you are not worried about your Gods, you feel the benefits of the Robe. Besides being padded enough to provide some armour, it also gives you four Blessings that are always effective, Blessings of the Earth gives you the ability to withstand blow you simply could not before, Blessings of the Air gives you acrobatic skills beyond what you have ever learnt, Blessings of the Flame gives your weapons an extra touch of damage in combat, and Blessings of the Water makes you resistant to other Elemental attacks.

Kali: ()

Yeleni: ()

Priya: ()

Bellas: (10) You find a nice composite longbow on one of the weapon racks, whilst your short bow is currently better, it is enchanted whereas this one is not and you feel it would be better once the enchantments are laid upon it. In addition, this longbow feels like it would be better at piercing armour than normal bows. Gained Composite Longbow (+4, Ignores half of targets Armour in combat)

Centorea: (5) You fail to find any armour on the weapon racks unsurprisingly, however you do find a semi-decent Axe, which if not for use in combat could always be used to break down any light obstacles in your way. Gained Axe (+2)

Davug: (10) You find a nice looking set of Heavy Armour that you quickly put on. Gained Banded Armour (Heavy, +5 Arm)

Shaban: () You wait in the Room 4 for Virro's next orders

Room 5: There are five male warriors standing a little bit back from the door in a line. The outer two are Lizardmen, whilst the other three are all dwarves The dwarves are clad in plate mail, and wield a shield and an axe each, the two Lizardmen are wearing some kind of Heavy Armour and are wielding Greatswords. Each of the Lizardmen are also holding the collars of a Guard Dog and seem ready to release them at a moments notice. Further back there is a female elf wearing Leather armour, wielding a Longbow with a full quiver of arrows on her back, Next to her is a female Centaur wearing Mail Armour with some Javelins strapped to her back. Finally, almost out of sight is a small Kobold in Light armour with a sling. The room itself is another long rectangle, although this one is thinner than room 4. There do not appear to be any other doors in this room, although a lone painting seems to stand out almost at the far end of the North Wall and two lighter shades of stone are almost opposite each other on the North and South Walls about a third of the way down. The rest of the room looks well used, a temporary smithy/kitchen seems to have been set up alongside some benches and desks with things going on on them and a small sleeping area. Noticing you are not Undead, the Warriors seem to relax slightly, and bid you welcome to, as they call it, "The Last Bastion."

Room 6: The room is relatively small, probably the smallest room you've been in so far, although the contents of the room may make it feel smaller than it actually is. In one of the corners there is a massive amount of weaponry, in another a massive collection of armours, a third has rings, belts and amulets galore, whilst the fourth corner holds a single chest. Directly opposite you is a map that looks different to the ones you have seen previously. The door that lead into this room has mysteriously disappeared, and in front of the now vacant doorway is a small rectangular welcome mat. This must be one of the treasure rooms scattered around the dungeon that you have heard about.

Rudig: () Arms full on new armour you take it back to The Last Bastion to begin Improving and fixing so that it'll fit who it needs to.

Gikur: () With Rudig's arms full of armour you go and search through the weapons in case anything is better than what you, and the rest of The Last Bastion currently have.

Urouk: () You stand guard, looking out of the known entrance to The Last Bastion.

Trijask: () You continue to guard the door to The Last Bastion and watch for enemies to kill.

Gantuxuz: () You stand in room 6 watching out for any traps, and offering a hand to Gikur to help him carry the weapons back.

Guard Dogs: () you wait for Trijask to give you an order and attack.

Renna: () You move over to where Rudig has put the armours down and help him go through them.

Prilanos: () You move back to The Last Bastion and move to help Rudig.

Blearm: () you giggle quietly, the normal people in The Last Bastion ignore you as they always do, you know you're not right in the head, if you were you wouldn't be where you are.

Characters:

Virro: Weapons - Pure Longbow (+8 (5 + 3), +1 Dam against Undead) Quiver(35 Arrows), Armour - , Other - (+1 Cir when guarding a door or doorway), Orc Bodyguard (You control what your Orc Bodyguard does each round), Undead Orc Bodyguard, Necromantic Genius (+2 Cir when trying to raise undead), Necklace of Poison Immunity, Scroll of Black Death (Raise a loyal Zombie Lord from a dead corpse in the same room as you, Deal 1D20 damage to every living thing in a room other than yourself, and heal undead and yourself by the same amount, Or Control every undead creature in the room and keep them under your command indefinitely. 10 uses) Health 26/26

Evard: Weapons - Dagger(+2), Dagger(+1), Armour - Studded Leather Armour(+4, Invisibility), Other - Invisibility (Can turn invisible for one round (counts as a passive action), Cannot be noticed or attacked by enemies whilst invisible, +1 Circumstance when attacking whilst invisible. Invisibility can be activated once every 4 Rounds (Rounds Remaining 0, Invs ready to activate)), Health 27/23

Uriel: Weapons - Club(+2), Armour - Sturdy Robes(+1), 2 Leather Armour(Light +2 Can't be Worn) Other - Belt of Advanced Monk Training (+3 Dam when unarmed.), Knife-Hand (+2 Dam when Unarmed, Can only hold items with one hand, Improved.), Club(+2, Not used), Tea, Ring of Hardened Skin (+2 Armour) Health 37/29

Keegra: Weapons - , Armour - , Other - Ring of Thur ('Rub thrice and drop it' and a mysterious stranger may arrive to help you for a turn, One use only), Belt of Monk Training(+1Dam when unarmed), Undead Bane (+3 Cir When fighting Undead), Rudig's Horn (Can be used twice to summon Rudig and a random number of others from the Last Bastion to help you until the end of the fight, can be used as a free action whilst in a fight), Bracers of Monk Training (+3 Dam when unarmed) Healing Potion (3 uses left), Elemental Resistance Potion (3 uses left), Mystery Potion(3 uses left). Health 26/22

Xiv'riit: Weapons – Spork(+3), Fatal Touch (+6, Lethal Touch, Return Policy), Armour - Robe of The Elements (+1 Arm), Other - , Ring of Thur ('Rub thrice and drop it' and a mysterious stranger may arrive to help you for a turn, One use only), Known Enemy (+2 Cir when interacting with Zombie Lords), Undead Bane (+2 Cir when fighting Undead), Lethal Touch (Once per room you can activate Lethal Touch to double the attack bonus you gained in the round you activated Lethal Touch and the damage dealt by Fatal Touch in that round, this is done before the dice roll for combat. However you lose 1D6 Health every time you activate Lethal Touch), Return Policy (If the item with this rule is not in your hand, or on your body it will automatically return to your hand (if one is free) or sheath itself to your side (otherwise), Blessings of the Elements (+5 Health, +2 Cir when defending, or doing something Acrobatically, +1D4 Damage, Take 1D6 less damage from elemental attacks) . Bag of Holding (Inside, spiked metal ball) Health 33/33

Kali: Weapons - Deer Shot(+3, Deer Fling), Armour - Leather Armour(+1), Other - Deer Fling (Once per room, you may fling a Deer instead of a stone at an enemy. This does +1D8 damage, and the difference between the offence and defence scores (either way) is taken as damage by the Deer. If it survives this it stays around as a permanent companion following your orders), Health 16/12

Yeleni: Weapons - Quarterstaff(+2), Armour - , Other - , Health 30/26

Priya: Weapons - Monk's Spade(+2), Armour - Banded Armour (Heavy, +4), Other - , Health 19/25

Bellas: Weapons - Shortbow (+5 (2 + 3)), Composite Longbow (+4, Ignores half of targets Armour in combat, Not Used) Quiver (99 Arrows), Short sword (+2), Short sword (+3), Short Sword(+2, Not Used) Armour - Sturdy Robes (+1), Other - , Health 16/12

Centorea: Weapons - Long sword (+4), Axe (+2, Not used)) Armour - Shield (+3) Studded Leather Armour (+3), Banded Armour(+1, Not Used) Other - , Health 24/20

Davug: Weapons - Mace(+2), Handaxe(+2) Armour - Banded Armour (Heavy, +5), Studded Leather Armour(+3, Not Used) Leather Armour(+2, Not Used), Other- Admirer(+2 Cir when fighting alongside Keegra), Health 22/26

Shaban: Weapons - , Armour - Leather Armour (Light +2), Other- , Health 3/7

Gikur Ironfeet: Weapons - Waraxe(+2, Improved), Armour - Full Plate(Plate, +7), Shield(+3) Other - , Health 25/21

Udouk Goldtank: Weapons - Waraxe(+2, Improved), Armour - Full Plate(Plate, +7), Shield(+3) Other - , Health 28/24

Rudig Stoneheart: Weapons - Waraxe(+2, Improved), Armour - Full Plate(Plate, +8), Shield (+4) Other - , Health 29/25

Trijask: Weapons - Greatsword(+3), Armour - Banded Armour(Heavy, +6), Other - , Health 33/29

Gantuxuz: Weapons - GreatSword(+4), Armour - Banded Armour (Heavy, +7), Other - , Health 22/18

Guard Dog 1: Weapons - Teeth(+2), Armour - , Other - , Health 10/6

Guard Dog 2: Weapons - Teeth(+3), Armour - , Other - , Health 8/4

Renna Liaran: Weapons - Longbow(+5 (2+3), 99 Arrows Remaining), Armour - Leather Armour(Light, +3), Other - , Health 29/25

Prilanos: Weapons - Javelins(+1, 22 Remaining), Armour - Holy Scale Armour(Mail, +4, +2 Cir When Healing/removing injuries, +4 Health given when restoring Health), Other - , Health 31/27

Blearm: Weapons - Sling(+2), Armour - Padded Armour(Light, +3, Can only be worn by Kobolds, Goblins and Halflings), Other - Hyperspace Market Stall (Can trade with people), Health 14/10

Loot in Room 4: 2 Leather Armour(Light +2), Mace(+1), Scale Mail(Mail. +3)

As you may have guessed, I'm having to put this on hold for now. I'm currently swamped by work for my masters and I am having trouble keeping up as it is. Hopefully this should calm down over the next few weeks, and I should be able to continue with Dungeon Crawlers after that.

Storme

Virro: (9) Looking at the map you notice it is fundamentally different to the other maps you have seen in the other rooms of the dungeon. Passages and even entire rooms are shown on this one where there is naught but empty space on the others. Given what you've seen so far, the orange lines indicate normal doors, purple lines are hidden doors and black lines are the walls. Unfortunately you cannot find a way to remove the map from its frame and you suspect such a thing may be all but impossible. https://s7.postimg.org/ymlalaky3/SWATCOTHA_full_map.png

Evard: ()

Uriel: (5) You search the room, not looking at any specific, but you do find that there are no more traps in the room and that there are no other doors out of the room.

Keegra: (8) Of the 3 potions you pull out, 1 seems to be some kind of healing potion, The second looks like some kind of elemental resistance potion, you can't quite tell without trying some. The third potion is a bit of a mystery and you have no idea what it does. Each potion has enough for 3 doses inside.

Xiv'riit: (10) You are able to pick up and look at 4 scrolls. Each scroll is a single use and essentially casts a spell on the rest of the occupants in the room. You know that generally Scrolls are also more powerful than potions. The first Scroll has a healing spell on it, the second some kind of fear spell on it, the third Has a scroll that will reveal anything hidden in the room you are in and the fourth... Well the fourth looks like a recipe for some really delicious Chicken Broth that a previous adventurer has left in the chest. Perhaps once you get out of here you may try and make it.

Kali: ()

Yeleni: ()

Priya: ()

Bellas: (5) You walk into Room 6 and start to look around. You manage find a decent looking Short Sword(+2), You hold onto it just in case, but it doesn't look any better than your own Swords.

Centorea: (7) You search through the armours and find what looks like a nice set of Heavy Armour. However, as you touch it, an old illusion falls off of it and you see that it is fairly rusty and battered and that your current armour would offer you more protection. You pick it up anyway, just in case.Gained Banded Armour(+1)

Davug: (5) You hurry over to the weapon racks and find yourself a decent looking Handaxe(+2) that should go nicely with your mace. Whilst your looking through the weapons you do glance over at Keegra a couple of times, which is probably why you were slightly distracted.

Shaban: () You wait in the Room 4 for Virro's next orders

Room 5: There are five male warriors standing a little bit back from the door in a line. The outer two are Lizardmen, whilst the other three are all dwarves The dwarves are clad in plate mail, and wield a shield and an axe each, the two Lizardmen are wearing some kind of Heavy Armour and are wielding Greatswords. Each of the Lizardmen are also holding the collars of a Guard Dog and seem ready to release them at a moments notice. Further back there is a female elf wearing Leather armour, wielding a Longbow with a full quiver of arrows on her back, Next to her is a female Centaur wearing Mail Armour with some Javelins strapped to her back. Finally, almost out of sight is a small Kobold in Light armour with a sling. The room itself is another long rectangle, although this one is thinner than room 4. There do not appear to be any other doors in this room, although a lone painting seems to stand out almost at the far end of the North Wall and two lighter shades of stone are almost opposite each other on the North and South Walls about a third of the way down. The rest of the room looks well used, a temporary smithy/kitchen seems to have been set up alongside some benches and desks with things going on on them and a small sleeping area. Noticing you are not Undead, the Warriors seem to relax slightly, and bid you welcome to, as they call it, "The Last Bastion."

Room 6: The room is relatively small, probably the smallest room you've been in so far, although the contents of the room may make it feel smaller than it actually is. In one of the corners there is a massive amount of weaponry, in another a massive collection of armours, a third has rings, belts and amulets galore, whilst the fourth corner holds a single chest. Directly opposite you is a map that looks different to the ones you have seen previously. The door that lead into this room has mysteriously disappeared, and in front of the now vacant doorway is a small rectangular welcome mat. This must be one of the treasure rooms scattered around the dungeon that you have heard about.

Rudig: () Arms full on new armour you take it back to The Last Bastion to begin Improving and fixing so that it'll fit who it needs to.

Gikur: () With Rudig's arms full of armour you go and search through the weapons in case anything is better than what you, and the rest of The Last Bastion currently have.

Urouk: () You stand guard, looking out of the known entrance to The Last Bastion.

Trijask: () You continue to guard the door to The Last Bastion and watch for enemies to kill.

Gantuxuz: () You stand in room 6 watching out for any traps, and offering a hand to Gikur to help him carry the weapons back.

Guard Dogs: () you wait for Trijask to give you an order and attack.

Renna: () You move over to where Rudig has put the armours down and help him go through them.

Prilanos: () You move back to The Last Bastion and move to help Rudig.

Blearm: () you giggle quietly, the normal people in The Last Bastion ignore you as they always do, you know you're not right in the head, if you were you wouldn't be where you are.

Characters:

Virro: Weapons - Pure Longbow (+8 (5 + 3), +1 Dam against Undead) Quiver(35 Arrows), Armour - , Other - (+1 Cir when guarding a door or doorway), Orc Bodyguard (You control what your Orc Bodyguard does each round), Undead Orc Bodyguard, Necromantic Genius (+2 Cir when trying to raise undead), Necklace of Poison Immunity Health 26/26

Evard: Weapons - Dagger(+2), Dagger(+1), Armour - Studded Leather Armour(+4, Invisibility), Other - Invisibility (Can turn invisible for one round (counts as a passive action), Cannot be noticed or attacked by enemies whilst invisible, +1 Circumstance when attacking whilst invisible. Invisibility can be activated once every 4 Rounds (Rounds Remaining 0, Invs ready to activate)), Health 27/23

Uriel: Weapons - Club(+2), Armour - Sturdy Robes(+1), 2 Leather Armour(Light +2 Can't be Worn) Other - Belt of Advanced Monk Training (+3 Dam when unarmed.), Knife-Hand (+2 Dam when Unarmed, Can only hold items with one hand, Improved.), Club(+2, Not used), Tea, Ring of Hardened Skin (+2 Armour) Health 37/29

Keegra: Weapons - , Armour - , Other - Ring of Thur ('Rub thrice and drop it' and a mysterious stranger may arrive to help you for a turn, One use only), Belt of Monk Training(+1Dam when unarmed), Undead Bane (+3 Cir When fighting Undead), Rudig's Horn (Can be used twice to summon Rudig and a random number of others from the Last Bastion to help you until the end of the fight, can be used as a free action whilst in a fight), Healing Potion (3 uses left), Elemental Resistance Potion (3 uses left), Mystery Potion(3 uses left). Health 26/22

Xiv'riit: Weapons – Spork(+3), Fatal Touch (+6, Lethal Touch, Return Policy), Armour - , Other - , Ring of Thur ('Rub thrice and drop it' and a mysterious stranger may arrive to help you for a turn, One use only), Known Enemy (+2 Cir when interacting with Zombie Lords), Undead Bane (+2 Cir when fighting Undead), Lethal Touch (Once per room you can activate Lethal Touch to double the attack bonus you gained in the round you activated Lethal Touch and the damage dealt by Fatal Touch in that round, this is done before the dice roll for combat. However you lose 1D6 Health every time you activate Lethal Touch), Return Policy (If the item with this rule is not in your hand, or on your body it will automatically return to your hand (if one is free) or sheath itself to your side (otherwise). Bag of Holding (Inside, spiked metal ball) Health 28/28

Kali: Weapons - Deer Shot(+3, Deer Fling), Armour - Leather Armour(+1), Other - Deer Fling (Once per room, you may fling a Deer instead of a stone at an enemy. This does +1D8 damage, and the difference between the offence and defence scores (either way) is taken as damage by the Deer. If it survives this it stays around as a permanent companion following your orders), Health 16/12

Yeleni: Weapons - Quarterstaff(+2), Armour - , Other - , Health 30/26

Priya: Weapons - Monk's Spade(+2), Armour - Banded Armour (Heavy, +4), Other - , Health 19/25

Bella: Weapons - Shortbow (+5 (2 + 3)), Quiver (99 Arrows), Short sword (+2), Short sword (+3), Short Sword(+2, Not Used) Armour - Sturdy Robes (+1), Other - , Health 16/12

Centorea: Weapons - Long sword (+4), Armour - Shield (+3) Studded Leather Armour (+3), Banded Armour(+1, Not Used) Other - , Health 24/20

Davug: Weapons - Mace(+2), Handaxe(+2) Armour - Studded Leather Armour(+3) Leather Armour(+2, Not Used), Other- Admirer(+2 Cir when fighting alongside Keegra), Health 22/26

Shaban: Weapons - , Armour - Leather Armour (Light +2), Other- , Health 3/7

Gikur Ironfeet: Weapons - Waraxe(+2, Improved), Armour - Full Plate(Plate, +7), Shield(+3) Other - , Health 25/21

Udouk Goldtank: Weapons - Waraxe(+2, Improved), Armour - Full Plate(Plate, +7), Shield(+3) Other - , Health 28/24

Rudig Stoneheart: Weapons - Waraxe(+2, Improved), Armour - Full Plate(Plate, +8), Shield (+4) Other - , Health 29/25

Trijask: Weapons - Greatsword(+3), Armour - Banded Armour(Heavy, +6), Other - , Health 33/29

Gantuxuz: Weapons - GreatSword(+4), Armour - Banded Armour (Heavy, +7), Other - , Health 22/18

Guard Dog 1: Weapons - Teeth(+2), Armour - , Other - , Health 10/6

Guard Dog 2: Weapons - Teeth(+3), Armour - , Other - , Health 8/4

Renna Liaran: Weapons - Longbow(+5 (2+3), 99 Arrows Remaining), Armour - Leather Armour(Light, +3), Other - , Health 29/25

Prilanos: Weapons - Javelins(+1, 22 Remaining), Armour - Holy Scale Armour(Mail, +4, +2 Cir When Healing/removing injuries, +4 Health given when restoring Health), Other - , Health 31/27

Blearm: Weapons - Sling(+2), Armour - Padded Armour(Light, +3, Can only be worn by Kobolds, Goblins and Halflings), Other - Hyperspace Market Stall (Can trade with people), Health 14/10

Loot in Room 4: 2 Leather Armour(Light +2), Mace(+1), Scale Mail(Mail. +3)

Virro: (5) You look through the amulets you find one with a skull on it. Hoping that it'll help your necromantic expertise you put it on. Unfortunately for you the enchanter of this particular item didn't thin of the skull when they put the enchantment on it, instead this amulet protects you from any poisons you may ingest, or the effects of any poisonous weapons. Gained Necklace of Poison Immunity.

Evard: ()

Uriel: (8) You pick up an ordinary looking ring that feels special to you in some way. Putting it on you feel your ski hardening and realize that this ring is a Ring of Hardened Skin, a blessing to Sluggers everywhere, as it makes your skin harder, allowing you to not only do more damage when you punch someone but also to protect yourself when attacked. Gained Ring of Hardened Skin (+2 Armour)

Keegra: (7) You attack the Chest's lid, not caring about whatever Xiv'riit has to say at the moment.

Combat!: Keegra (16 + 5 Dam = 21) vs Chest (13 + 5 = 18) With your first attack you rattle the chest lid, it looks like it could break from a couple more of your attacks. Second Attack Keegra (9 + 5 Dam = 14) vs Chest (13 + 5 = 18) Your second attack does nothing against the chest lid, obviously hitting one of the reinforced parts of it. Third Attack Keegra (19 + 5 Dam = 24) vs Chest (13 + 5 = 18) With your third attack you focus on where you hit with your first attack and are able to smash a small hole through the lid of the chest which you are then able to use to rip the rest of the lid off of the chest. Inside you find a large collection of bottled potions and what look like magical scrolls. You are immediately thankful that you didn't smash the chest so hard that you could of broken any of the bottles, or else the result could have been... volatile to say the least.

Xiv'riit: (10 - 3 Inj = 7) Whilst too late to save the chest lid from Keegra's rage, you do see a small bag some of the scrolls were sitting in, taking it you carefully put the scrolls back into the chest, and then pick up the metal ball that had previously hit you. Putting the bag on your belt, and the ball in your new bag you find out that, the bag is enchanted in such a way that whilst the volume of the bag remains the same ((about the size of your standard supermarket carrier bag)) not only do you not feel the weight of the items in the bag, it also doesn't move around unless you specifically want it to, meaning t won't get in your way in combat. You have gained a Bag of Holding.

Kali: ()

Yeleni: ()

Priya: ()

Bellas: (7) You successfully enchant your bow.

Centorea: (11) Clip-clopping through the rooms you find Xiv'riit. Seeing that is concussed, you decide to use your clerical powers on him. Unaware of his previous attempts with this kind of healing magic, you let loose a pulse of healing energy that flows through both Room 6 and Room 5, healing all those withing those Rooms by 4 Health ((Even if that'd take them above max)) as well as healing all injuries.

Davug: (4) You walk into Room 6 and then immediately forget what you were planning on doing once you see the sheer amount of treasure in here.

Shaban: () You wait in the Room 4 for Virro's next orders

Room 5: There are five male warriors standing a little bit back from the door in a line. The outer two are Lizardmen, whilst the other three are all dwarves The dwarves are clad in plate mail, and wield a shield and an axe each, the two Lizardmen are wearing some kind of Heavy Armour and are wielding Greatswords. Each of the Lizardmen are also holding the collars of a Guard Dog and seem ready to release them at a moments notice. Further back there is a female elf wearing Leather armour, wielding a Longbow with a full quiver of arrows on her back, Next to her is a female Centaur wearing Mail Armour with some Javelins strapped to her back. Finally, almost out of sight is a small Kobold in Light armour with a sling. The room itself is another long rectangle, although this one is thinner than room 4. There do not appear to be any other doors in this room, although a lone painting seems to stand out almost at the far end of the North Wall and two lighter shades of stone are almost opposite each other on the North and South Walls about a third of the way down. The rest of the room looks well used, a temporary smithy/kitchen seems to have been set up alongside some benches and desks with things going on on them and a small sleeping area. Noticing you are not Undead, the Warriors seem to relax slightly, and bid you welcome to, as they call it, "The Last Bastion."

Room 6: The room is relatively small, probably the smallest room you've been in so far, although the contents of the room may make it feel smaller than it actually is. In one of the corners there is a massive amount of weaponry, in another a massive collection of armours, a third has rings, belts and amulets galore, whilst the fourth corner holds a single chest. Directly opposite you is a map that looks different to the ones you have seen previously. The door that lead into this room has mysteriously disappeared, and in front of the now vacant doorway is a small rectangular welcome mat. This must be one of the treasure rooms scattered around the dungeon that you have heard about.

Rudig: () Arms full on new armour you take it back to The Last Bastion to begin Improving and fixing so that it'll fit who it needs to.

Gikur: () With Rudig's arms full of armour you go and search through the weapons in case anything is better than what you, and the rest of The Last Bastion currently have.

Urouk: () You stand guard, looking out of the known entrance to The Last Bastion.

Trijask: () You continue to guard the door to The Last Bastion and watch for enemies to kill.

Gantuxuz: () You stand in room 6 watching out for any traps, and offering a hand to Gikur to help him carry the weapons back.

Guard Dogs: () you wait for Trijask to give you an order and attack.

Renna: () You move over to where Rudig has put the armours down and help him go through them.

Prilanos: () Feeling another burst of healing magic, you go through to Room 6 to ask the two clerics in there how they did it.

Blearm: () you giggle quietly, the normal people in The Last Bastion ignore you as they always do, you know you're not right in the head, if you were you wouldn't be where you are.

Characters:

Virro: Weapons - Pure Longbow (+8 (5 + 3), +1 Dam against Undead) Quiver(35 Arrows), Armour - , Other - (+1 Cir when guarding a door or doorway), Orc Bodyguard (You control what your Orc Bodyguard does each round), Undead Orc Bodyguard, Necromantic Genius (+2 Cir when trying to raise undead), Necklace of Poison Immunity Health 26/26

Evard: Weapons - Dagger(+2), Dagger(+1), Armour - Studded Leather Armour(+4, Invisibility), Other - Invisibility (Can turn invisible for one round (counts as a passive action), Cannot be noticed or attacked by enemies whilst invisible, +1 Circumstance when attacking whilst invisible. Invisibility can be activated once every 4 Rounds (Rounds Remaining 0, Invs ready to activate)), Health 27/23

Uriel: Weapons - Club(+2), Armour - Sturdy Robes(+1), 2 Leather Armour(Light +2 Can't be Worn) Other - Belt of Advanced Monk Training (+3 Dam when unarmed.), Knife-Hand (+2 Dam when Unarmed, Can only hold items with one hand, Improved.), Club(+2, Not used), Tea, Ring of Hardened Skin (+2 Armour) Health 37/29

Keegra: Weapons - , Armour - , Other - Ring of Thur ('Rub thrice and drop it' and a mysterious stranger may arrive to help you for a turn, One use only), Belt of Monk Training(+1Dam when unarmed), Undead Bane (+3 Cir When fighting Undead), Rudig's Horn (Can be used twice to summon Rudig and a random number of others from the Last Bastion to help you until the end of the fight, can be used as a free action whilst in a fight), Health 26/22

Xiv'riit: Weapons – Spork(+3), Fatal Touch (+6, Lethal Touch, Return Policy), Armour - , Other - , Ring of Thur ('Rub thrice and drop it' and a mysterious stranger may arrive to help you for a turn, One use only), Known Enemy (+2 Cir when interacting with Zombie Lords), Undead Bane (+2 Cir when fighting Undead), Lethal Touch (Once per room you can activate Lethal Touch to double the attack bonus you gained in the round you activated Lethal Touch and the damage dealt by Fatal Touch in that round, this is done before the dice roll for combat. However you lose 1D6 Health every time you activate Lethal Touch), Return Policy (If the item with this rule is not in your hand, or on your body it will automatically return to your hand (if one is free) or sheath itself to your side (otherwise). Bag of Holding (Inside, spiked metal ball) Health 28/28

Kali: Weapons - Deer Shot(+3, Deer Fling), Armour - Leather Armour(+1), Other - Deer Fling (Once per room, you may fling a Deer instead of a stone at an enemy. This does +1D8 damage, and the difference between the offence and defence scores (either way) is taken as damage by the Deer. If it survives this it stays around as a permanent companion following your orders), Health 16/12

Yeleni: Weapons - Quarterstaff(+2), Armour - , Other - , Health 30/26

Priya: Weapons - Monk's Spade(+2), Armour - Banded Armour (Heavy, +4), Other - , Health 19/25

Bella: Weapons - Shortbow (+5 (2 + 3)), Quiver (99 Arrows), Short sword (+2), Short sword (+3), Armour - Sturdy Robes (+1), Other - , Health 16/12

Centorea: Weapons - Long sword (+4), Armour - Shield (+3) Studded Leather Armour (+3), Other - , Health 24/20

Davug: Weapons - Mace(+2), Armour - Studded Leather Armour(+3) Leather Armour(+2, Not Used), Other- Admirer(+2 Cir when fighting alongside Keegra), Health 22/26

Shaban: Weapons - , Armour - Leather Armour (Light +2), Other- , Health 3/7

Gikur Ironfeet: Weapons - Waraxe(+2, Improved), Armour - Full Plate(Plate, +7), Shield(+3) Other - , Health 25/21

Udouk Goldtank: Weapons - Waraxe(+2, Improved), Armour - Full Plate(Plate, +7), Shield(+3) Other - , Health 28/24

Rudig Stoneheart: Weapons - Waraxe(+2, Improved), Armour - Full Plate(Plate, +8), Shield (+4) Other - , Health 29/25

Trijask: Weapons - Greatsword(+3), Armour - Banded Armour(Heavy, +6), Other - , Health 33/29

Gantuxuz: Weapons - GreatSword(+4), Armour - Banded Armour (Heavy, +7), Other - , Health 22/18

Guard Dog 1: Weapons - Teeth(+2), Armour - , Other - , Health 10/6

Guard Dog 2: Weapons - Teeth(+3), Armour - , Other - , Health 8/4

Renna Liaran: Weapons - Longbow(+5 (2+3), 99 Arrows Remaining), Armour - Leather Armour(Light, +3), Other - , Health 29/25

Prilanos: Weapons - Javelins(+1, 22 Remaining), Armour - Holy Scale Armour(Mail, +4, +2 Cir When Healing/removing injuries, +4 Health given when restoring Health), Other - , Health 31/27

Blearm: Weapons - Sling(+2), Armour - Padded Armour(Light, +3, Can only be worn by Kobolds, Goblins and Halflings), Other - Hyperspace Market Stall (Can trade with people), Health 14/10

Loot in Room 4: 2 Leather Armour(Light +2), Mace(+1), Scale Mail(Mail. +3)

Virro: (7 + 2Cir = 9) Talking to Renna it appears that the bow is more than sufficient. Shutting up as Renna works her magic on the bow, you watch as the enchantments on it begin to take shape.

Evard: ()

Uriel: (3) Writing your newfound discovery down in your journal, you become engrossed in your journal flipping back and forth through it wondering how else you could further the research into exactly how Psions work,

Keegra: (7 - 1inj = 6) You run into the room, not quite sure what to start trying to loot first. You head over to the chest and find that it is locked, no matter how hard you try you find yourself unable to make the lid of the chest lift.

Xiv'riit: (12) Searching underneath the welcome mat, you find a large heavy key, that after Keegra's screams of annoyance at the chest she is at, you realize must be used to open the chest. Before you can move across the room the trap you activated when you picked up the mat comes into play, dropping a medium sized, metal spiked ball onto your head.

Combat! Trap (17) vs Xiv'riit (13 + 5 -1Arm = 17) Nothing happens...

Despite the ball falling towards your head, you barely feel it as it bounces off and lands on the floor besides you. Even though it didn't hurt persay you definitely feel the concussion caused by having a heavy object dropped on your head. So much for your theory that Parnax definitely wouldn't lay any traps for you in his treasure rooms. Gained Concussion (-3 Inj, 4 turns Remaining)

Kali: ()

Yeleni: ()

Priya: ()

Bellas: () You have heard of the Bore Hole and traveled many miles from the Elven Kingdom to get here. Along the way you encountered the Centaur who now walks by your side as the two of you enter this place. The cavernous entryway has thinned down to the point where you are forced to walk in single file, and has become so low that your centaur friend now has to duck. Still, you have found yourself at a crossroads, looking to your right you see what appears to be an armory with what seem to be the same kind of weapons as the ones you carry now, to the left is some kind of old barracks that now looks abandoned. Seeing a small huddle of people in the room ahead of you you enter, finding yourself in Room 4

Centorea: () You have heard of the Bore Hole and traveled many miles from the Southern Steppes to get here. Along the way you encountered the Elf who now walks by your side as the two of you enter this place. The cavernous entryway has thinned down to the point where you are forced to walk in single file, and has become so low that you now have to duck. Still, you have found yourself at a crossroads, looking to your right you see what appears to be an armory with what seem to be the same kind of weapons as the ones you carry now, to the left is some kind of old barracks that now looks abandoned. Seeing a small huddle of people in the room ahead of you you enter, finding yourself in Room 4

Davug: () You wait in the Last Bastion for Virro's next orders.

Shaban: () You wait in the Room 4 for Virro's next orders

Room 5: There are five male warriors standing a little bit back from the door in a line. The outer two are Lizardmen, whilst the other three are all dwarves The dwarves are clad in plate mail, and wield a shield and an axe each, the two Lizardmen are wearing some kind of Heavy Armour and are wielding Greatswords. Each of the Lizardmen are also holding the collars of a Guard Dog and seem ready to release them at a moments notice. Further back there is a female elf wearing Leather armour, wielding a Longbow with a full quiver of arrows on her back, Next to her is a female Centaur wearing Mail Armour with some Javelins strapped to her back. Finally, almost out of sight is a small Kobold in Light armour with a sling. The room itself is another long rectangle, although this one is thinner than room 4. There do not appear to be any other doors in this room, although a lone painting seems to stand out almost at the far end of the North Wall and two lighter shades of stone are almost opposite each other on the North and South Walls about a third of the way down. The rest of the room looks well used, a temporary smithy/kitchen seems to have been set up alongside some benches and desks with things going on on them and a small sleeping area. Noticing you are not Undead, the Warriors seem to relax slightly, and bid you welcome to, as they call it, "The Last Bastion."

Room 6: The room is relatively small, probably the smallest room you've been in so far, although the contents of the room may make it feel smaller than it actually is. In one of the corners there is a massive amount of weaponry, in another a massive collection of armours, a third has rings, belts and amulets galore, whilst the fourth corner holds a single chest. Directly opposite you is a map that looks different to the ones you have seen previously. The door that lead into this room has mysteriously disappeared, and in front of the now vacant doorway is a small rectangular welcome mat. This must be one of the treasure rooms scattered around the dungeon that you have heard about.

Rudig: (9) You head into Room 6 and start picking out some new armour for your fellow warriors in The Last Bastion

Gikur: (3) Seeing Xiv'riit trigger the door mat trap you worry about setting foot inside.

Urouk: () You stand guard, looking out of the known entrance to The Last Bastion.

Trijask: () You continue to guard the door to The Last Bastion and watch for enemies to kill.

Gantuxuz: (4) You stand in room 6 watching as people moe around and start to loot it.

Guard Dogs: () you wait for Trijask to give you an order and attack.

Renna: (9) You are able to enchant Virro's bow. With a finishing touch you make it slightly more lethal against undead, just because you feel like you can.

Prilanos: (3) Busy in the Last Bastion you don't realize anything is wrong in Room 6.

Blearm: () you giggle quietly, the normal people in The Last Bastion ignore you as they always do, you know you're not right in the head, if you were you wouldn't be where you are. Happy to be trading again you giggle as you watch both theElf and the Shardmind get acquainted with their new weapons

Characters:

Virro: Weapons - Pure Longbow (+8 (5 + 3), +1 Dam against Undead) Quiver(35 Arrows), Armour - , Other - (+1 Cir when guarding a door or doorway), Orc Bodyguard (You control what your Orc Bodyguard does each round), Undead Orc Bodyguard, Necromantic Genius (+2 Cir when trying to raise undead), Health 22/26

Evard: Weapons - Dagger(+2), Dagger(+1), Armour - Studded Leather Armour(+4, Invisibility), Other - Invisibility (Can turn invisible for one round (counts as a passive action), Cannot be noticed or attacked by enemies whilst invisible, +1 Circumstance when attacking whilst invisible. Invisibility can be activated once every 4 Rounds (Rounds Remaining 0, Invs ready to activate)), Health 27/23

Uriel: Weapons - Club(+2), Armour - Sturdy Robes(+1), 2 Leather Armour(Light +2 Can't be Worn) Other - Belt of Advanced Monk Training (+3 Dam when unarmed.), Knife-Hand (+2 Dam when Unarmed, Can only hold items with one hand, Improved.), Club(+2, Not used), Tea, Health 33/29

Keegra: Weapons - , Armour - , Other - Ring of Thur ('Rub thrice and drop it' and a mysterious stranger may arrive to help you for a turn, One use only), Belt of Monk Training(+1Dam when unarmed), Undead Bane (+3 Cir When fighting Undead), Rudig's Horn (Can be used twice to summon Rudig and a random number of others from the Last Bastion to help you until the end of the fight, can be used as a free action whilst in a fight), (Bitten Tongue, -1 Inj, 1 turns remaining) Health 22/22

Xiv'riit: Weapons – Spork(+3), Fatal Touch (+6, Lethal Touch, Return Policy), Armour - , Other - , Ring of Thur ('Rub thrice and drop it' and a mysterious stranger may arrive to help you for a turn, One use only), Known Enemy (+2 Cir when interacting with Zombie Lords), Undead Bane (+2 Cir when fighting Undead), Lethal Touch (Once per room you can activate Lethal Touch to double the attack bonus you gained in the round you activated Lethal Touch and the damage dealt by Fatal Touch in that round, this is done before the dice roll for combat. However you lose 1D6 Health every time you activate Lethal Touch), Return Policy (If the item with this rule is not in your hand, or on your body it will automatically return to your hand (if one is free) or sheath itself to your side (otherwise). Concussion (-3 Inj, 4 turns Remaining) Health 24/28

Kali: Weapons - Deer Shot(+3, Deer Fling), Armour - Leather Armour(+1), Other - Deer Fling (Once per room, you may fling a Deer instead of a stone at an enemy. This does +1D8 damage, and the difference between the offence and defence scores (either way) is taken as damage by the Deer. If it survives this it stays around as a permanent companion following your orders), Health 16/12

Yeleni: Weapons - Quarterstaff(+2), Armour - , Other - , Health 30/26

Priya: Weapons - Monk's Spade(+2), Armour - Banded Armour (Heavy, +4), Other - , Health 19/25

Bella: Weapons - Shortbow (+2), Quiver (99 Arrows), Short sword (+2), Short sword (+3), Armour - Sturdy Robes (+1), Other - , Health 12/12

Centorea: Weapons - Long sword (+4), Armour - Shield (+3) Studded Leather Armour (+3), Other - , Health 20/20

Davug: Weapons - Mace(+2), Armour - Studded Leather Armour(+3) Leather Armour(+2, Not Used), Other- Admirer(+2 Cir when fighting alongside Keegra), Health 18/26

Shaban: Weapons - , Armour - Leather Armour (Light +2), Other- , Health 3/7

Gikur Ironfeet: Weapons - Waraxe(+2, Improved), Armour - Full Plate(Plate, +7), Shield(+3) Other - , Health 21/21

Udouk Goldtank: Weapons - Waraxe(+2, Improved), Armour - Full Plate(Plate, +7), Shield(+3) Other - , Health 24/24

Rudig Stoneheart: Weapons - Waraxe(+2, Improved), Armour - Full Plate(Plate, +8), Shield (+4) Other - , Health 25/25

Trijask: Weapons - Greatsword(+3), Armour - Banded Armour(Heavy, +6), Other - , Health 29/29

Gantuxuz: Weapons - GreatSword(+4), Armour - Banded Armour (Heavy, +7), Other - , Health 18/18

Guard Dog 1: Weapons - Teeth(+2), Armour - , Other - , Health 6/6

Guard Dog 2: Weapons - Teeth(+3), Armour - , Other - , Health 4/4

Renna Liaran: Weapons - Longbow(+5 (2+3), 99 Arrows Remaining), Armour - Leather Armour(Light, +3), Other - , Health 25/25

Prilanos: Weapons - Javelins(+1, 22 Remaining), Armour - Holy Scale Armour(Mail, +4, +2 Cir When Healing/removing injuries, +4 Health given when restoring Health), Other - , Health 27/27

Blearm: Weapons - Sling(+2), Armour - Padded Armour(Light, +3, Can only be worn by Kobolds, Goblins and Halflings), Other - Hyperspace Market Stall (Can trade with people), Health 10/10

Loot in Room 4: 2 Leather Armour(Light +2), Mace(+1), Scale Mail(Mail. +3)

Virro: (7 + 2Cir = 9) You barter with Blearm quite successfully, and are delighted when he gives you a fine oak longbow in return for your currently broken weapon. You are not quite sure where either your new longbow appeared from, or where your old bow went, but right now you don't really care. Lost Cracked Bow, Gained Longbow (+5)

Evard: ()

Uriel: (9) You use your powers in a way that most had not thought to use them before. Whilst you are very sure that there are no magic users in the next room, you are not 100% sure there are no sentient creatures in the next room at all. You did however feel the presence of several magic, and magical, items in the next room.

Keegra: (2) You try to speak but you just can't make the words come out. In fact the co-ordination between your teeth, your brain and your tongue is so bad that you manage to bite your tongue whilst trying to speak, badly. This doesn't stop you from trying however, and when you realize that talking isn't your best bet right now, in your gesturing you manage to strike the door, slightly harder than you intended. The pain jars your arm slightly, but with your bash the door seems to pop out of its hinges and fall to the ground, revealing to you Room 6. Gained (Bitten Tongue, -1 Inj, 1 turns remaining) Lost 3 health.

Xiv'riit: (12) You give your longsword to Blearm and in return he carefully hands you an exquisite longsword. It is only after he has handed it to you, and you have picked it up, that you realise that he had kept some cloth between his hand and the sword whilst giving it to you. Before you can question why, a searing pain ripples through your body, cause you to yell out in agony, however after a brief few, but painful, seconds the pain is gone. Looking at Blearm he squeaks "Sword is now bounds to you, it can never go too far from you and will always return. Onlys way to release you from this is to die." Despite the morbid way the Kobold ends his speech, you can't help but feel empowered by your sword. Gained Fatal Touch (+6, Lethal Touch, Return Policy) Lost 6 Health.

Kali: ()

Yeleni: ()

Priya: ()

Davug: () You wait in the Last Bastion for Virro's next orders

Shaban: () You wait in the Room 4 for Virro's next orders

Room 5: There are five male warriors standing a little bit back from the door in a line. The outer two are Lizardmen, whilst the other three are all dwarves The dwarves are clad in plate mail, and wield a shield and an axe each, the two Lizardmen are wearing some kind of Heavy Armour and are wielding Greatswords. Each of the Lizardmen are also holding the collars of a Guard Dog and seem ready to release them at a moments notice. Further back there is a female elf wearing Leather armour, wielding a Longbow with a full quiver of arrows on her back, Next to her is a female Centaur wearing Mail Armour with some Javelins strapped to her back. Finally, almost out of sight is a small Kobold in Light armour with a sling. The room itself is another long rectangle, although this one is thinner than room 4. There do not appear to be any other doors in this room, although a lone painting seems to stand out almost at the far end of the North Wall and two lighter shades of stone are almost opposite each other on the North and South Walls about a third of the way down. The rest of the room looks well used, a temporary smithy/kitchen seems to have been set up alongside some benches and desks with things going on on them and a small sleeping area. Noticing you are not Undead, the Warriors seem to relax slightly, and bid you welcome to, as they call it, "The Last Bastion."

Room 6: The room is relatively small, probably the smallest room you've been in so far, although the contents of the room may make it feel smaller than it actually is. In one of the corners there is a massive amount of weaponry, in another a massive collection of armours, a third has rings, belts and amulets galore, whilst the fourth corner holds a single chest. Directly opposite you is a map that looks different to the ones you have seen previously. The door that lead into this room has mysteriously disappeared, and in front of the now vacant doorway is a small rectangular welcome mat. This must be one of the treasure rooms scattered around the dungeon that you have heard about.

Rudig: () You puzzle over the existence of the newfound passageway and begin to work out how would be best to hold it in case things take a turn for the worse.

Gikur: (4) Amazed at how Keegra opened the door with a single punch, the disappearance of the door makes you worry about setting foot inside.

Urouk: () You stand guard, looking out of the known entrance to The Last Bastion.

Trijask: () You continue to guard the door to The Last Bastion and watch for enemies to kill.

Gantuxuz: (8) You move through the doorway, stepping over the welcome mat as if it wasn't there. Poking a couple of things and lifting weapons and armour from their positions you declare the room safe.

Guard Dogs: () you wait for Trijask to give you an order and attack.

Renna: ()

Prilanos: (7 + 2Cir = 9) taking the initiative you move over to Xiv'riit and try to heal him. (6) Your healing energy flows through him and heal him for 9 Health. You make the motions again, (4) restoring a further 5 Health.

Blearm: () you giggle quietly, the normal people in The Last Bastion ignore you as they always do, you know you're not right in the head, if you were you wouldn't be where you are. Happy to be trading again you giggle as you watch both theElf and the Shardmind get acquainted with their new weapons

Characters:

Virro: Weapons - Shortbow(+2) Quiver(35 Arrows), Armour - , Other - (+1 Cir when guarding a door or doorway), Orc Bodyguard (You control what your Orc Bodyguard does each round), Undead Orc Bodyguard, Necromantic Genius (+2 Cir when trying to raise undead),Gained Longbow (+5) Health 22/26

Evard: Weapons - Dagger(+2), Dagger(+1), Armour - Studded Leather Armour(+4, Invisibility), Other - Invisibility (Can turn invisible for one round (counts as a passive action), Cannot be noticed or attacked by enemies whilst invisible, +1 Circumstance when attacking whilst invisible. Invisibility can be activated once every 4 Rounds (Rounds Remaining 0, Invs ready to activate)), Health 27/23

Uriel: Weapons - Club(+2), Armour - Sturdy Robes(+1), 2 Leather Armour(Light +2 Can't be Worn) Other - Belt of Advanced Monk Training (+3 Dam when unarmed.), Knife-Hand (+2 Dam when Unarmed, Can only hold items with one hand, Improved.), Club(+2, Not used), Tea, Health 33/29

Keegra: Weapons - , Armour - , Other - Ring of Thur ('Rub thrice and drop it' and a mysterious stranger may arrive to help you for a turn, One use only), Belt of Monk Training(+1Dam when unarmed), Undead Bane (+3 Cir When fighting Undead), Rudig's Horn (Can be used twice to summon Rudig and a random number of others from the Last Bastion to help you until the end of the fight, can be used as a free action whilst in a fight), (Bitten Tongue, -1 Inj, 1 turns remaining) Health 22/22

Xiv'riit: Weapons – Spork(+3), Fatal Touch (+6, Lethal Touch, Return Policy), Armour - , Other - , Ring of Thur ('Rub thrice and drop it' and a mysterious stranger may arrive to help you for a turn, One use only), Known Enemy (+2 Cir when interacting with Zombie Lords), Undead Bane (+2 Cir when fighting Undead), Lethal Touch (Once per room you can activate Lethal Touch to double the attack bonus you gained in the round you activated Lethal Touch and the damage dealt by Fatal Touch in that round, this is done before the dice roll for combat. However you lose 1D6 Health every time you activate Lethal Touch), Return Policy (If the item with this rule is not in your hand, or on your body it will automatically return to your hand (if one is free) or sheath itself to your side (otherwise). Health 24/28

Kali: Weapons - Deer Shot(+3, Deer Fling), Armour - Leather Armour(+1), Other - Deer Fling (Once per room, you may fling a Deer instead of a stone at an enemy. This does +1D8 damage, and the difference between the offence and defence scores (either way) is taken as damage by the Deer. If it survives this it stays around as a permanent companion following your orders), Health 16/12

Yeleni: Weapons - Quarterstaff(+2), Armour - , Other - , Health 30/26

Priya: Weapons - Monk's Spade(+2), Armour - Banded Armour (Heavy, +4), Other - , Health 19/25

Davug: Weapons - Mace(+2), Armour - Studded Leather Armour(+3) Leather Armour(+2, Not Used), Other- Admirer(+2 Cir when fighting alongside Keegra), Health 18/26

Shaban: Weapons - , Armour - Leather Armour (Light +2), Other- , Health 3/7

Gikur Ironfeet: Weapons - Waraxe(+2, Improved), Armour - Full Plate(Plate, +7), Shield(+3) Other - , Health 21/21

Udouk Goldtank: Weapons - Waraxe(+2, Improved), Armour - Full Plate(Plate, +7), Shield(+3) Other - , Health 24/24

Rudig Stoneheart: Weapons - Waraxe(+2, Improved), Armour - Full Plate(Plate, +8), Shield (+4) Other - , Health 25/25

Trijask: Weapons - Greatsword(+3), Armour - Banded Armour(Heavy, +6), Other - , Health 29/29

Gantuxuz: Weapons - GreatSword(+4), Armour - Banded Armour (Heavy, +7), Other - , Health 18/18

Guard Dog 1: Weapons - Teeth(+2), Armour - , Other - , Health 6/6

Guard Dog 2: Weapons - Teeth(+3), Armour - , Other - , Health 4/4

Renna Liaran: Weapons - Longbow(+5 (2+3), 99 Arrows Remaining), Armour - Leather Armour(Light, +3), Other - , Health 25/25

Prilanos: Weapons - Javelins(+1, 22 Remaining), Armour - Holy Scale Armour(Mail, +4, +2 Cir When Healing/removing injuries, +4 Health given when restoring Health), Other - , Health 27/27

Blearm: Weapons - Sling(+2), Armour - Padded Armour(Light, +3, Can only be worn by Kobolds, Goblins and Halflings), Other - Hyperspace Market Stall (Can trade with people), Health 10/10

Loot in Room 4: 2 Leather Armour(Light +2), Mace(+1), Scale Mail(Mail. +3)

Virro: (7 + 2Cir = 9) You manage to successfully bargain with Renna. Although it does not appear that the other Elf was going to charge you for enchanting a bow for you, she was going to ask you to do a task that she will not specify exactly. However your charismatic personality wins her over, and she agrees that you do not have to do the task for her, she says she is sure someone else can do it if need be. .

Evard: ()

Uriel: (6) You brew what appears to be a normal cup of tea and are eager to drink it. Gained Tea.

Keegra: (11) From the shocked looks on the faces of all in The Last Bastion, you assume that the answer is, no, they did not know about it. A fact that Rudig soon confirms. A talk between the occupants of The Last Bastion reveal their certainty that noting hostile, alive or undead is in the room at the end of the secret passageway, although that doesn't mean the room is completely safe as there are trapped rooms in the dungeon waiting for someone to spring the trap and dies from them. You manage to convince Gikur and Gantuxuz to explore the passageway and the room beyond with you.

Xiv'riit: (10) Like Keegra you ask your questions and the occupants of The Last Bastion respond sincerely. They honestly had no idea that the passage had existed until Keegra had found it. It is thanks to your questions that Gantuxuz decides to help Gikur explore the passageway. Blearm meanwhile is bouncing up and down excitedly at the thought of someone trading with him.

Kali: ()

Yeleni: ()

Priya: ()

Davug: () You wait in the Last Bastion for Virro's next orders

Shaban: () You wait in the Room 4 for Virro's next orders

Room 5: There are five male warriors standing a little bit back from the door in a line. The outer two are Lizardmen, whilst the other three are all dwarves The dwarves are clad in plate mail, and wield a shield and an axe each, the two Lizardmen are wearing some kind of Heavy Armour and are wielding Greatswords. Each of the Lizardmen are also holding the collars of a Guard Dog and seem ready to release them at a moments notice. Further back there is a female elf wearing Leather armour, wielding a Longbow with a full quiver of arrows on her back, Next to her is a female Centaur wearing Mail Armour with some Javelins strapped to her back. Finally, almost out of sight is a small Kobold in Light armour with a sling. The room itself is another long rectangle, although this one is thinner than room 4. There do not appear to be any other doors in this room, although a lone painting seems to stand out almost at the far end of the North Wall and two lighter shades of stone are almost opposite each other on the North and South Walls about a third of the way down. The rest of the room looks well used, a temporary smithy/kitchen seems to have been set up alongside some benches and desks with things going on on them and a small sleeping area. Noticing you are not Undead, the Warriors seem to relax slightly, and bid you welcome to, as they call it, "The Last Bastion."

Rudig: () You puzzle over the existence of the newfound passageway and begin to work out how would be best to hold it in case things take a turn for the worse.

Gikur: (5) You advance up the passageway, however you are unable to open the door at the end, it is not locked, merely stuck in place, and appearing to swing into the passageway instead of into the room, you are unable to make any progress.

Urouk: () You watch Uriel make the tea, raising an eyebrow at the practice but otherwise leaving him to it.

Trijask: () You continue to guard the door to The Last Bastion and watch for enemies to kill.

Gantuxuz: (5) You are very sure the passageway itself has no traps or other secrets hidden along it, however, like Gikur you are unable to get the door open.

Guard Dogs: () you wait for Trijask to give you an order and attack.

Renna: ()

Prilanos: ()

Blearm: () you giggle quietly, the normal people in The Last Bastion ignore you as they always do, you know you're not right in the head, if you were you wouldn't be where you are. Still, you wonder if any of the newcomers have anything interesting to trade, it would be nice to just be a merchant again.

Characters:

Virro: Weapons - Shortbow(+2) Quiver(35 Arrows), Armour - , Other - (+1 Cir when guarding a door or doorway), Orc Bodyguard (You control what your Orc Bodyguard does each round), Undead Orc Bodyguard, Necromantic Genius (+2 Cir when trying to raise undead), Cracked Bow (-2 Dam when firing bow, can be removed by swapping bow or getting it repaired by a smith.) Health 22/26

Evard: Weapons - Dagger(+2), Dagger(+1), Armour - Studded Leather Armour(+4, Invisibility), Other - Invisibility (Can turn invisible for one round (counts as a passive action), Cannot be noticed or attacked by enemies whilst invisible, +1 Circumstance when attacking whilst invisible. Invisibility can be activated once every 4 Rounds (Rounds Remaining 0, Invs ready to activate)), Health 27/23

Uriel: Weapons - Club(+2), Armour - Sturdy Robes(+1), 2 Leather Armour(Light +2 Can't be Worn) Other - Belt of Advanced Monk Training (+3 Dam when unarmed.), Knife-Hand (+2 Dam when Unarmed, Can only hold items with one hand, Improved.), Club(+2, Not used), Tea, Health 33/29

Keegra: Weapons - , Armour - , Other - Ring of Thur ('Rub thrice and drop it' and a mysterious stranger may arrive to help you for a turn, One use only), Belt of Monk Training(+1Dam when unarmed), Undead Bane (+3 Cir When fighting Undead), Rudig's Horn (Can be used twice to summon Rudig and a random number of others from the Last Bastion to help you until the end of the fight, can be used as a free action whilst in a fight) Health 25/22

Xiv'riit: Weapons – Spork(+3), Armour - , Other - , Ring of Thur ('Rub thrice and drop it' and a mysterious stranger may arrive to help you for a turn, One use only), Known Enemy (+2 Cir when interacting with Zombie Lords), Undead Bane (+2 Cir when fighting Undead) Health 20/28

Kali: Weapons - Deer Shot(+3, Deer Fling), Armour - Leather Armour(+1), Other - Deer Fling (Once per room, you may fling a Deer instead of a stone at an enemy. This does +1D8 damage, and the difference between the offence and defence scores (either way) is taken as damage by the Deer. If it survives this it stays around as a permanent companion following your orders), Health 16/12

Yeleni: Weapons - Quarterstaff(+2), Armour - , Other - , Health 30/26

Priya: Weapons - Monk's Spade(+2), Armour - Banded Armour (Heavy, +4), Other - , Health 19/25

Davug: Weapons - Mace(+2), Armour - Studded Leather Armour(+3) Leather Armour(+2, Not Used), Other- Admirer(+2 Cir when fighting alongside Keegra), Health 18/26

Shaban: Weapons - , Armour - Leather Armour (Light +2), Other- , Health 3/7

Gikur Ironfeet: Weapons - Waraxe(+2, Improved), Armour - Full Plate(Plate, +7), Shield(+3) Other - , Health 21/21

Udouk Goldtank: Weapons - Waraxe(+2, Improved), Armour - Full Plate(Plate, +7), Shield(+3) Other - , Health 24/24

Rudig Stoneheart: Weapons - Waraxe(+2, Improved), Armour - Full Plate(Plate, +8), Shield (+4) Other - , Health 25/25

Trijask: Weapons - Greatsword(+3), Armour - Banded Armour(Heavy, +6), Other - , Health 29/29

Gantuxuz: Weapons - GreatSword(+4), Armour - Banded Armour (Heavy, +7), Other - , Health 18/18

Guard Dog 1: Weapons - Teeth(+2), Armour - , Other - , Health 6/6

Guard Dog 2: Weapons - Teeth(+3), Armour - , Other - , Health 4/4

Renna Liaran: Weapons - Longbow(+5 (2+3), 99 Arrows Remaining), Armour - Leather Armour(Light, +3), Other - , Health 25/25

Prilanos: Weapons - Javelins(+1, 22 Remaining), Armour - Holy Scale Armour(Mail, +4, +2 Cir When Healing/removing injuries, +4 Health given when restoring Health), Other - , Health 27/27

Blearm: Weapons - Sling(+2), Armour - Padded Armour(Light, +3, Can only be worn by Kobolds, Goblins and Halflings), Other - Hyperspace Market Stall (Can trade with people), Health 10/10

Loot in Room 4: 2 Leather Armour(Light +2), Mace(+1), Scale Mail(Mail. +3)

Virro: () You are talking to Renna.

Evard: () You move back up to Room 4

Uriel: (5) You set about making another cup of tea. You let it brew successfully, however something about it doesn't quite fell right.

Keegra: (9) You take a look at the picture, tapping around the edges of it, it feels like the wall behind it is hollow in the middle. Taking a chance you rip through the picture and find yourself in a hallway you know isn't on the map you normally see in the rooms. The corridor bends around to the right a few paces ahead of you, and after a quick check, you notice that it only goes for a short length before it ends at a door, this one with a wooden sign attached with a number 6 on it. Whilst yu are not specifically listening out for anything, this area seems to be completely quiet.

Xiv'riit: (7) You manage to speak up to the room and get your questions asked.

Kali: () You move back up to Room 4

Yeleni: () You move back up to Room 4

Priya: () You move back up to Room 4

Davug: () You wait in the Last Bastion for Virro's next orders

Shaban: (4) You wait in the Room 4 for Virro's next orders

Room 5: There are five male warriors standing a little bit back from the door in a line. The outer two are Lizardmen, whilst the other three are all dwarves The dwarves are clad in plate mail, and wield a shield and an axe each, the two Lizardmen are wearing some kind of Heavy Armour and are wielding Greatswords. Each of the Lizardmen are also holding the collars of a Guard Dog and seem ready to release them at a moments notice. Further back there is a female elf wearing Leather armour, wielding a Longbow with a full quiver of arrows on her back, Next to her is a female Centaur wearing Mail Armour with some Javelins strapped to her back. Finally, almost out of sight is a small Kobold in Light armour with a sling. The room itself is another long rectangle, although this one is thinner than room 4. There do not appear to be any other doors in this room, although a lone painting seems to stand out almost at the far end of the North Wall and two lighter shades of stone are almost opposite each other on the North and South Walls about a third of the way down. The rest of the room looks well used, a temporary smithy/kitchen seems to have been set up alongside some benches and desks with things going on on them and a small sleeping area. Noticing you are not Undead, the Warriors seem to relax slightly, and bid you welcome to, as they call it, "The Last Bastion."

Rudig: () Listening to the Shardmind asking the questions you step forward to answer them. "Aye, Prilanos over there is our Healer and Cleric all in one." You say, pointing to the Centaur, "and if you want to trade, well we don't have a lot of stuff, and we'd rather not part with any of it, however Blearm over there." This time you point to the Kobold. "Has some kind of magic market stall thing-y set up so that only he can access it. It works on equivalent exchange. You give him something of one kind or another, and he'll give you something else of the same kind. So swords for swords or mail armour for mail armour. That kinda thing."

Gikur: () With no one interacting with you, you keep an eye on the Orc, watching for any hostility he may show. That he is potentially enthralled makes you even more paranoid about him.

Urouk: (9) You watch Uriel make the tea, raising an eyebrow at the practice but otherwise leaving him to it.

Trijask: () Alongside your brother you continue to guard the door to The Last Bastion and watch for enemies to kill.

Gantuxuz: () Alongside your brother you continue to guard the door to The Last Bastion and watch for enemies to kill.

Guard Dogs: () you wait for the Lizardmen to give you an order and attack.

Renna: () Annoyed that Virro just seems to be ignoring you as a person and trying to use your skills for himself, you sigh and shake you head. "I may be, but it's not like you'd need those skills with that piece of twig and string you've got yourself there. Get it repaired or traded and I may be able to see what I could do. After we talk price of course."

Prilanos: () Noticing Uriel is happy with his hand you walk forward as Rudig mentions your name to the other Shardmind. You can feel the divine magic coming from him and so you know that he is one of the main reasons this adventuring party were able to successfully drive off the zombies that had kept you in the Last Bastion.

Blearm: () you giggle quietly, the normal people in The Last Bastion ignore you as they always do, you know you're not right in the head, if you were you wouldn't be where you are. Still, you wonder if any of the newcomers have anything interesting to trade, it would be nice to just be a merchant again.

Characters:

Virro: Weapons - Shortbow(+2) Quiver(35 Arrows), Armour - , Other - (+1 Cir when guarding a door or doorway), Orc Bodyguard (You control what your Orc Bodyguard does each round), Undead Orc Bodyguard, Necromantic Genius (+2 Cir when trying to raise undead), Cracked Bow (-2 Dam when firing bow, can be removed by swapping bow or getting it repaired by a smith.) Health 22/26

Evard: Weapons - Dagger(+2), Dagger(+1), Armour - Studded Leather Armour(+4, Invisibility), Other - Invisibility (Can turn invisible for one round (counts as a passive action), Cannot be noticed or attacked by enemies whilst invisible, +1 Circumstance when attacking whilst invisible. Invisibility can be activated once every 4 Rounds (Rounds Remaining 0, Invs ready to activate)), Health 27/23

Uriel: Weapons - Club(+2), Armour - Sturdy Robes(+1), 2 Leather Armour(Light +2 Can't be Worn) Other - Belt of Advanced Monk Training (+3 Dam when unarmed.), Knife-Hand (+2 Dam when Unarmed, Can only hold items with one hand, Improved.), Club(+2, Not used), Tea Health 33/29

Keegra: Weapons - , Armour - , Other - Ring of Thur ('Rub thrice and drop it' and a mysterious stranger may arrive to help you for a turn, One use only), Belt of Monk Training(+1Dam when unarmed), Undead Bane (+3 Cir When fighting Undead), Rudig's Horn (Can be used twice to summon Rudig and a random number of others from the Last Bastion to help you until the end of the fight, can be used as a free action whilst in a fight) Health 25/22

Xiv'riit: Weapons – Spork(+3), Armour - , Other - , Ring of Thur ('Rub thrice and drop it' and a mysterious stranger may arrive to help you for a turn, One use only), (+2 Cir when interacting with Zombie Lords), Undead Bane (+2 Cir when fighting Undead) Health 20/28

Kali: Weapons - Deer Shot(+3, Deer Fling), Armour - Leather Armour(+1), Other - Deer Fling (Once per room, you may fling a Deer instead of a stone at an enemy. This does +1D8 damage, and the difference between the offence and defence scores (either way) is taken as damage by the Deer. If it survives this it stays around as a permanent companion following your orders), Health 16/12

Yeleni: Weapons - Quarterstaff(+2), Armour - , Other - , Health 30/26

Priya: Weapons - Monk's Spade(+2), Armour - Banded Armour (Heavy, +4), Other - , Health 19/25

Davug: Weapons - Mace(+2), Armour - Studded Leather Armour(+3) Leather Armour(+2, Not Used), Other- Admirer(+2 Cir when fighting alongside Keegra), Health 18/26

Shaban: Weapons - , Armour - Leather Armour (Light +2), Other- , Health 3/7

Gikur Ironfeet: Weapons - Waraxe(+2, Improved), Armour - Full Plate(Plate, +7), Shield(+3) Other - , Health 21/21

Udouk Goldtank: Weapons - Waraxe(+2, Improved), Armour - Full Plate(Plate, +7), Shield(+3) Other - , Health 24/24

Rudig Stoneheart: Weapons - Waraxe(+2, Improved), Armour - Full Plate(Plate, +8), Shield (+4) Other - , Health 25/25

Trijask: Weapons - Greatsword(+3), Armour - Banded Armour(Heavy, +6), Other - , Health 29/29

Gantuxuz: Weapons - GreatSword(+4), Armour - Banded Armour (Heavy, +7), Other - , Health 18/18

Guard Dog 1: Weapons - Teeth(+2), Armour - , Other - , Health 6/6

Guard Dog 2: Weapons - Teeth(+3), Armour - , Other - , Health 4/4

Renna Liaran: Weapons - Longbow(+5 (2+3), 99 Arrows Remaining), Armour - Leather Armour(Light, +3), Other - , Health 25/25

Prilanos: Weapons - Javelins(+1, 22 Remaining), Armour - Holy Scale Armour(Mail, +4, +2 Cir When Healing/removing injuries, +4 Health given when restoring Health), Other - , Health 27/27

Blearm: Weapons - Sling(+2), Armour - Padded Armour(Light, +3, Can only be worn by Kobolds, Goblins and Halflings), Other - Hyperspace Market Stall (Can trade with people), Health 10/10

Loot in Room 4: 2 Leather Armour(Light +2), Mace(+1), Scale Mail(Mail. +3)

Virro: () You are talking to Renna. As you do, you start to suspect that the Necromancer Robes made it a bit too obvious what you were and that maybe, it would of been better if you hadn't obviously worn them in this room. Too late now.

Evard: () You move back up to Room 4

Uriel: (8) With a bit of talking you manage to convince Urouk and Prilanos that you want your Knife hand improved not healed. The Centaur and the Dwarf put their heads together (figuratively) and after a minute have worked out how to do so. With Urouk using his smithing tools to sharpen your knife hand and Prilanos healing the pain that the tools create you soon have an Improved knife hand, even better for killing people with.

Keegra: () You continue to talk to Rudig and a bond starts to form between the two of you as you share stories and both relate how hard it is to lead a group. Whilst Rudig won't leave his group behind to travel with you, he gives you a horn that can be blown twice, when it is he will come to your aid until the fight is done, and if he is able he will bring some of the others from "The Last Bastion" too.

Xiv'riit: ()

Kali: () You move back up to Room 4

Yeleni: () You move back up to Room 4

Priya: () You move back up to Room 4

Davug: (7) You follow Virro into the Last Bastion, and decide that whilst you don't want to pick a fight with these guys you will if Virro commands.

Shaban: (4) Master may have commanded you but something happened and you did not obey, instead you continue to stand in Room 4 doing absolutely nothing.

Room 5: There are five male warriors standing a little bit back from the door in a line. The outer two are Lizardmen, whilst the other three are all dwarves The dwarves are clad in plate mail, and wield a shield and an axe each, the two Lizardmen are wearing some kind of Heavy Armour and are wielding Greatswords. Each of the Lizardmen are also holding the collars of a Guard Dog and seem ready to release them at a moments notice. Further back there is a female elf wearing Leather armour, wielding a Longbow with a full quiver of arrows on her back, Next to her is a female Centaur wearing Mail Armour with some Javelins strapped to her back. Finally, almost out of sight is a small Kobold in Light armour with a sling. The room itself is another long rectangle, although this one is thinner than room 4. There do not appear to be any other doors in this room, although a lone painting seems to stand out almost at the far end of the North Wall and two lighter shades of stone are almost opposite each other on the North and South Walls about a third of the way down. The rest of the room looks well used, a temporary smithy/kitchen seems to have been set up alongside some benches and desks with things going on on them and a small sleeping area. Noticing you are not Undead, the Warriors seem to relax slightly, and bid you welcome to, as they call it, "The Last Bastion."

Rudig: () You talk with Keegra, and develop a respect for her and think that you could call her friend. You give her your horn in case she comes into trouble but cannot permanently leave the Last Bastion, the others need you too much.

Gikur: () With no one interacting with you, you keep an eye on the Orc, watching for any hostility he may show. That he is potentially enthralled makes you even more paranoid about him.

Urouk: (9) You skillfully work at improving Uriel's hand alongside Prilanos, you wonder how such a thing happened, but decide not to ask.

Trijask: () Alongside your brother you continue to guard the door to The Last Bastion and watch for enemies to kill.

Gantuxuz: () Alongside your brother you continue to guard the door to The Last Bastion and watch for enemies to kill.

Guard Dogs: () you wait for the Lizardmen to give you an order and attack.

Renna: () Looking at Virro you scowl. "No I just decided to randomly carry a large piece of wood on my back. Yes I'm an archer, what do you want Necromancer?" The word necromancer is once again used as an insult. "I lost my sister to undead so don't think that just because we're both Elves I'm going to be any friendlier to you than anyone else."

Prilanos: () Alongside Urouk you help improve Uriel's Knife hand.

Blearm: () you giggle quietly, the normal people in The Last Bastion ignore you as they always do, you know you're not right in the head, if you were you wouldn't be where you are. Still, you wonder if any of the newcomers have anything interesting to trade, it would be nice to just be a merchant again.

Characters:

Virro: Weapons - Shortbow(+2) Quiver(35 Arrows), Armour - , Other - (+1 Cir when guarding a door or doorway), Orc Bodyguard (You control what your Orc Bodyguard does each round), Undead Orc Bodyguard, Necromantic Genius (+2 Cir when trying to raise undead), Cracked Bow (-2 Dam when firing bow, can be removed by swapping bow or getting it repaired by a smith.) Health 22/26

Evard: Weapons - Dagger(+2), Dagger(+1), Armour - Studded Leather Armour(+4, Invisibility), Other - Invisibility (Can turn invisible for one round (counts as a passive action), Cannot be noticed or attacked by enemies whilst invisible, +1 Circumstance when attacking whilst invisible. Invisibility can be activated once every 4 Rounds (Rounds Remaining 0, Invs ready to activate)), Health 27/23

Uriel: Weapons - Club(+2), Armour - Sturdy Robes(+1), 2 Leather Armour(Light +2 Can't be Worn) Other - Belt of Advanced Monk Training (+3 Dam when unarmed.), Knife-Hand (+2 Dam when Unarmed, Can only hold items with one hand, Improved.), Club(+2, Not used) Health 33/29

Keegra: Weapons - , Armour - , Other - Ring of Thur ('Rub thrice and drop it' and a mysterious stranger may arrive to help you for a turn, One use only), Belt of Monk Training(+1Dam when unarmed), Undead Bane (+3 Cir When fighting Undead), Rudig's Horn (Can be used twice to summon Rudig and a random number of others from the Last Bastion to help you until the end of the fight, can be used as a free action whilst in a fight) Health 25/22

Xiv'riit: Weapons – Spork(+3), Armour - , Other - , Ring of Thur ('Rub thrice and drop it' and a mysterious stranger may arrive to help you for a turn, One use only), (+2 Cir when interacting with Zombie Lords), Undead Bane (+2 Cir when fighting Undead) Health 20/28

Kali: Weapons - Deer Shot(+3, Deer Fling), Armour - Leather Armour(+1), Other - Deer Fling (Once per room, you may fling a Deer instead of a stone at an enemy. This does +1D8 damage, and the difference between the offence and defence scores (either way) is taken as damage by the Deer. If it survives this it stays around as a permanent companion following your orders), Health 16/12

Yeleni: Weapons - Quarterstaff(+2), Armour - , Other - , Health 30/26

Priya: Weapons - Monk's Spade(+2), Armour - Banded Armour (Heavy, +4), Other - , Health 19/25

Davug: Weapons - Mace(+2), Armour - Studded Leather Armour(+3) Leather Armour(+2, Not Used), Other- Admirer(+2 Cir when fighting alongside Keegra), Health 18/26

Shaban: Weapons - , Armour - Leather Armour (Light +2), Other- , Health 3/7

Gikur Ironfeet: Weapons - Waraxe(+2, Improved), Armour - Full Plate(Plate, +7), Shield(+3) Other - , Health 21/21

Udouk Goldtank: Weapons - Waraxe(+2, Improved), Armour - Full Plate(Plate, +7), Shield(+3) Other - , Health 24/24

Rudig Stoneheart: Weapons - Waraxe(+2, Improved), Armour - Full Plate(Plate, +8), Shield (+4) Other - , Health 25/25

Trijask: Weapons - Greatsword(+3), Armour - Banded Armour(Heavy, +6), Other - , Health 29/29

Gantuxuz: Weapons - GreatSword(+4), Armour - Banded Armour (Heavy, +7), Other - , Health 18/18

Guard Dog 1: Weapons - Teeth(+2), Armour - , Other - , Health 6/6

Guard Dog 2: Weapons - Teeth(+3), Armour - , Other - , Health 4/4

Renna Liaran: Weapons - Longbow(+5 (2+3), 99 Arrows Remaining), Armour - Leather Armour(Light, +3), Other - , Health 25/25

Prilanos: Weapons - Javelins(+1, 22 Remaining), Armour - Holy Scale Armour(Mail, +4, +2 Cir When Healing/removing injuries, +4 Health given when restoring Health), Other - , Health 27/27

Blearm: Weapons - Sling(+2), Armour - Padded Armour(Light, +3, Can only be worn by Kobolds, Goblins and Halflings), Other - Hyperspace Market Stall (Can trade with people), Health 10/10

Loot in Room 4: 2 Leather Armour(Light +2), Mace(+1), Scale Mail(Mail. +3)

Virro: (8) You put on the Robe that Shaban gave you, as you do you feel empowered, (+1 Cir When trying to raise/control Undead). Talking to the people on the other side of the door you get a grunt of confirmation at your suggestion.

Evard: ()

Uriel: (11) Enthusiastically strolling through the door, you find yourself faced with a motley collection of people from various races. There are five male warriors standing a little bit back from the door in a line. The outer two are Lizardmen, whilst the other three are all dwarves The dwarves are clad in plate mail, and wield a shield and an axe each, the two Lizardmen are wearing some kind of Heavy Armour and are wielding Greatswords. Each of the Lizardmen are also holding the collars of a Guard Dog and seem ready to release them at a moments notice. Further back there is a female elf wearing Leather armour, wielding a Longbow with a full quiver of arrows on her back, Next to her is a female Centaur wearing Mail Armour with some Javelins strapped to her back. Finally, almost out of sight is a small Kobold in Light armour with a sling. The room itself is another long rectangle, although this one is thinner than room 4. There do not appear to be any other doors in this room, although a lone painting seems to stand out almost at the far end of the North Wall and two lighter shades of stone are almost opposite each other on the North and South Walls about a third of the way down. The rest of the room looks well used, a temporary smithy/kitchen seems to have been set up alongside some benches and desks with things going on on them and a small sleeping area. Noticing you are not Undead, the Warriors seem to relax slightly, and bid you welcome to, as they call it, "The Last Bastion."

Keegra: (6) Unfortunately you're not all that helpful. You try your best and manage to help Davug remove all the shards, but that's about it. (Davug gains +1 Health)

Xiv'riit: (9) You manage to use your magic to help patch up some of Davug's wounds, although your burst of healing magic doesn't seem to be particularly strong this time. Perhaps you need to rest it for a bit before it will be as powerful as it was when you entered this room... (Davug gains 2 Health)

Kali: ()

Yeleni: ()

Priya: ()

Davug: (7) You pick up the mace and put it on your belt. You also find a pouch to put the shards in.

Shaban: () Master has not commanded you so you shall not move.

Room 5: There are five male warriors standing a little bit back from the door in a line. The outer two are Lizardmen, whilst the other three are all dwarves The dwarves are clad in plate mail, and wield a shield and an axe each, the two Lizardmen are wearing some kind of Heavy Armour and are wielding Greatswords. Each of the Lizardmen are also holding the collars of a Guard Dog and seem ready to release them at a moments notice. Further back there is a female elf wearing Leather armour, wielding a Longbow with a full quiver of arrows on her back, Next to her is a female Centaur wearing Mail Armour with some Javelins strapped to her back. Finally, almost out of sight is a small Kobold in Light armour with a sling. The room itself is another long rectangle, although this one is thinner than room 4. There do not appear to be any other doors in this room, although a lone painting seems to stand out almost at the far end of the North Wall and two lighter shades of stone are almost opposite each other on the North and South Walls about a third of the way down. The rest of the room looks well used, a temporary smithy/kitchen seems to have been set up alongside some benches and desks with things going on on them and a small sleeping area. Noticing you are not Undead, the Warriors seem to relax slightly, and bid you welcome to, as they call it, "The Last Bastion."

Characters:

Virro: Weapons - Shortbow(+2) Quiver(35 Arrows), Armour - , Other - (+1 Cir when guarding a door or doorway), Orc Bodyguard (You control what your Orc Bodyguard does each round), Undead Orc Bodyguard, Necromantic Genius (+2 Cir when trying to raise undead), Cracked Bow (-2 Dam when firing bow, can be removed by swapping bow or getting it repaired by a smith.) Health 22/26

Evard: Weapons - Dagger(+2), Dagger(+1), Armour - Studded Leather Armour(+4, Invisibility), Other - Invisibility (Can turn invisible for one round (counts as a passive action), Cannot be noticed or attacked by enemies whilst invisible, +1 Circumstance when attacking whilst invisible. Invisibility can be activated once every 4 Rounds (Rounds Remaining 0, Invs ready to activate)), Health 27/23

Uriel: Weapons - Club(+2), Armour - Sturdy Robes(+1), 2 Leather Armour(Light +2 Can't be Worn) Other - Belt of Advanced Monk Training (+3 Dam when unarmed.), Knife-Hand (+2 Dam when Unarmed, Can only hold items with one hand.), Club(+2, Not used) Health 33/29

Keegra: Weapons - , Armour - , Other - Ring of Thur ('Rub thrice and drop it' and a mysterious stranger may arrive to help you for a turn, One use only), Belt of Monk Training(+1Dam when unarmed), Undead Bane (+3 Cir When fighting Undead), Health 25/22

Xiv'riit: Weapons – Spork(+3), Armour - , Other - , Ring of Thur ('Rub thrice and drop it' and a mysterious stranger may arrive to help you for a turn, One use only), (+2 Cir when interacting with Zombie Lords), Undead Bane (+2 Cir when fighting Undead) Health 20/28

Kali: Weapons - Deer Shot(+3, Deer Fling), Armour - Leather Armour(+1), Other - Deer Fling (Once per room, you may fling a Deer instead of a stone at an enemy. This does +1D8 damage, and the difference between the offence and defence scores (either way) is taken as damage by the Deer. If it survives this it stays around as a permanent companion following your orders), Health 16/12

Yeleni: Weapons - Quarterstaff(+2), Armour - , Other - , Health 30/26

Priya: Weapons - Monk's Spade(+2), Armour - Banded Armour (Heavy, +4), Other - , Health 19/25

Davug: Weapons - Mace(+2), Armour - Studded Leather Armour(+3) Leather Armour(+2, Not Used), Other- Admirer(+2 Cir when fighting alongside Keegra), Health 18/26

Shaban: Weapons - , Armour - Leather Armour (Light +2), Other- Necromancers Robe (+1 Armour, Other Effects, Not Used) , Health 3/7

Gikur Ironfeet: Weapons - Waraxe(+3, Improved), Armour - Full Plate(Plate, +7), Shield(+3) Other - , Health 21/21

Udouk Goldtank: Weapons - Waraxe(+3, Improved), Armour - Full Plate(Plate, +7), Shield(+3) Other - , Health 24/24

Rudig Stoneheart: Weapons - Waraxe(+3, Improved), Armour - Full Plate(Plate, +8), Shield (+4) Other - , Health 25/25

Trijask: Weapons - Greatsword(+3), Armour - Banded Armour(Heavy, +6), Other - , Health 29/29

Gantuxuz: Weapons - GreatSword(+4), Armour - Banded Armour (Heavy, +7), Other - , Health 18/18

Guard Dog 1: Weapons - Teeth(+2), Armour - , Other - , Health 6/6

Guard Dog 2: Weapons - Teeth(+3), Armour - , Other - , Health 4/4

Renna Liaran: Weapons - Longbow(+5 (2+3), 99 Arrows Remaining), Armour - Leather Armour(Light, +3), Other - , Health 25/25

Prilanos: Weapons - Javelins(+1, 22 Remaining), Armour - Holy Scale Armour(Mail, +4, +2 Cir When Healing/removing injuries, +4 Health given when restoring Health), Other - , Health 27/27

Blearm: Weapons - Sling(+2), Armour - Padded Armour(Light, +3, Can obly be worn by Kobold's Goblins and Halflings), Other - , Health 10/10

Loot in Room 4: 2 Leather Armour(Light +2), Mace(+1), Scale Mail(Mail. +3)

Virro: (5) As you suspected Zombie Lords, like other undead, are weak to Healing magic. Seeing Xiv'riit already getting to work in that regard you decide to just fire an arrow at the advancing Zombie Lord. Suddenly you start to feel the Zombie Lords emotions, not really sure what is going on you plan to find out AFTER your former minion has been killed. At the moment of the Zombie Lord's death, you feel it through your link, and decide that you never want to experience that again, the emotions that ran through the Zombie Lord as it died are too overwhelming to really describe.

Fight!: (Virro gets (2 + 2 Dam + 2 Cir = 6) vs Zombie Lord gets (8 + 6 + 3 Arm - 3 Inj = 14) As you pull back your bow to fire you hear the wood creak, almost ready to snap. Firing immediately your underpowered arrow bounces off of the Zombie Lords armour as if it's end wasn't pointed at all. A quick examination of your bow reveals there is now a nice crack down most of the upper arm, and you know you'll either need to find a smith to fix it or get a new bow pronto. Cracked Bow (-2 Dam when firing bow).

Evard: ()

Uriel: (7 - 1 Cir = 6) You manage to connect yourself, Virro and the Zombie Lord together in some kind of basic emotional link, whilst it doesn't help Virro gain control of the Zombie Lord it does give the three of you a feeling for each others emotions, or it would if the Zombie Lord's anger and rage didn't pour forth from its part of the connection and overwhelm whatever emotions you and Virro could sense from one another. At the moment of the Zombie Lord's death, you feel it through your link, and decide that you never want to experience that again, the emotions that ran through the Zombie Lord as it died are too overwhelming to really describe.

Keegra: (11) Leaping at the Zombie Lord once again you instinctively know exactly where to hit to cause maximum damage. Your many fights against the undead have paid off as you now have the ability to almost instantly work out exactly how to take down the undead, and how to dodge their own attacks back at you. Undead Bane (+3 Cir When fighting Undead).

Fight!: (Keegra gets (14 + 5 Dam + 4 Cir = 23) vs Zombie Lord gets (9 + 6 + 3 Arm - 3 Inj = 15) Zombie Lord loses 2 Health. Keegra's second attack gets (10 + 5 Dam + 4 Cir = 19) vs Zombie Lord gets (15) Zombie Lord loses 1 Health. Keegra's third attack gets (16 + 5 Dam + 4 Cir = 25) vs Zombie Lord gets (9 + 6 + 3 Arm - 3 Inj = 15) Zombie Lord loses 7 Health.) Despite your first two hits only being glancing hits as the Zombie Lord seemed to randomly jerk around, trying to dodge the blows that were now coming in from every side, your third takes account for this and smashes into its neck, almost completely severing its head from its body with that one punch.

Xiv'riit: (9 + 2 Cir = 11) Whether or not the Book of Pulp helped or not, you're not sure. What you do know is that for a brief moment time seemed to stand still as you leaped for the Zombie Lord, like Keegra you suddenly find yourself able to work out exactly how to take down Undead in close combat, and with your mighty Spork drawn and ready you found time resuming, as you leapt onto the Zombie Lord's currently unprotected flank (losing that arm certainly didn't help) and set about jabbing the Undead with your Spork. Undead Bane (+2 Cir when fighting Undead).

Fight!: Xiv'riit gets (16 + 3 Dam + 6 Cir = 25) vs Zombie Lord gets (1 + 6 + 3 Arm - 3 Inj = 7). Zombie Lord loses 15 Health. Smashing into the Zombie Lord you aim your Spork and hit it with surprising power and accuracy, killing it almost instantly. Zombie Lord dies. Before Virro has any ideas you quickly send a small burst of healing magic at the now deceased Zombie Lord turning it into dust so it can't be resurrected.

Kali: ()

Yeleni: ()

Priya: ()

Davug: (7) Joining in on the all out brawl against the Zombie Lord you swing both Mace and Sword at it.

Fight!: (Davug gets (6 + 1 Dam + 2 Cir = 9) vs Zombie Lord gets (18 + 6 + 3 Arm - 3Inj = 24). Offf-hand Davuge gets (13 + 2 Dam + 2 Cir = 17) vs Zombie Lord gets (18 + 6 + 3 Arm - 3Inj = 24). With a swing of your sword you look on in shock as it breaks into tiny pieces when it hits the Zombie Lord Armour, the pieces fly back towards you and you have no time to dodge as they fly into your and ignore your armour (-10 Health). Hurt from the sword shards you don't put your full power into your swing with the mac and it tells as it just bounces off the Zombie Lords armour. You are glad when the Zombie Lord falls, but know that it was not you who did the deed.

Shaban: (7) As your master commands you stand still and watch the fight.

Zombie Lord: (10) As you go down you swing wildly, hitting everyone who is now around you. (

Fight!: (Zombie Lord gets (16 + 4 Dam - 3 Inj = 17) vs Virro gets (6 + 5 + 1 Cir = 12) Virro loses 3 Health. Zombie Lord gets (16 + 4 Dam - 3 Inj = 17) vs Keegra gets (6 + 5 + 4 Cir = 15) Keegra loses 1 Health. Zombie Lord gets (16 + 4 Dam - 3 Inj = 17) vs Xiv'riit gets (1 + 5 + 6 Cir - 1 Arm = 11) Xiv'riit loses 5 Health. Zombie Lord gets (16 + 4 Dam - 3 Inj = 17) vs Davug gets (15 + 6 + 3 = 24) Nothing Happens.) Flailing wildy, the Zombie Lord manages to hit Virro, Xiv'riit and Keegra once before it falls, a quick pulse from Xiv'riit means it won't be getting up again.

Characters:

Virro: Weapons - Shortbow(+2) Quiver(35 Arrows), Armour - , Other - (+1 Cir when guarding a door or doorway), Orc Bodyguard (You control what your Orc Bodyguard does each round), Undead Orc Bodyguard, Necromantic Genius (+2 Cir when trying to raise undead), Cracked Bow (-2 Dam when firing bow, can be removed by swapping bow or getting it repaired by a smith.) Health 22/26

Evard: Weapons - Dagger(+2), Dagger(+1), Armour - Studded Leather Armour(+4, Invisibility), Other - Invisibility (Can turn invisible for one round (counts as a passive action), Cannot be noticed or attacked by enemies whilst invisible, +1 Circumstance when attacking whilst invisible. Invisibility can be activated once every 4 Rounds (Rounds Remaining 0, Invs ready to activate)), Health 27/23

Uriel: Weapons - Club(+2), Armour - Sturdy Robes(+1), 2 Leather Armour(Light +2 Can't be Worn) Other - Belt of Advanced Monk Training (+3 Dam when unarmed.), Knife-Hand (+2 Dam when Unarmed, Can only hold items with one hand.), Club(+2, Not used) Health 33/29

Keegra: Weapons - , Armour - , Other - Ring of Thur ('Rub thrice and drop it' and a mysterious stranger may arrive to help you for a turn, One use only), Belt of Monk Training(+1Dam when unarmed), Undead Bane (+3 Cir When fighting Undead), Health 25/22

Xiv'riit: Weapons – Spork(+3), Armour - , Other - , Ring of Thur ('Rub thrice and drop it' and a mysterious stranger may arrive to help you for a turn, One use only), (+2 Cir when interacting with Zombie Lords), Undead Bane (+2 Cir when fighting Undead) Health 20/28

Kali: Weapons - Deer Shot(+3, Deer Fling), Armour - Leather Armour(+1), Other - Deer Fling (Once per room, you may fling a Deer instead of a stone at an enemy. This does +1D8 damage, and the difference between the offence and defence scores (either way) is taken as damage by the Deer. If it survives this it stays around as a permanent companion following your orders), Health 16/12

Yeleni: Weapons - Quarterstaff(+2), Armour - , Other - , Health 30/26

Priya: Weapons - Monk's Spade(+2), Armour - Banded Armour (Heavy, +4), Other - , Health 19/25

Davug: Weapons - Mace(+2), Armour - Studded Leather Armour(+3) Leather Armour(+2, Not Used), Other- Admirer(+2 Cir when fighting alongside Keegra), Health 15/26

Shaban: Weapons - , Armour - Leather Armour (Light +2), Other- Necromancers Robe (+1 Armour, Other Effects, Not Used) , Health 3/7

Loot in Room 4: 2 Leather Armour(Light +2), Mace(+1), Scale Mail(Mail. +3)

Virro: (10) You notice something is slightly off with the Zombie Lord as you watch it go. Suspecting the worst you turn and loose your bow at it, hoping the attack will at least slow it down.

Fight!: (Virro gets (19 +2 Dam +1 Cir = 22) vs Zombie Lord gets (16 + 6 +3 Arm = 25) Zombie Lord wins by 3). Unfortunately for Virro, the arrow just pings off of the Zombie Lords armour and you watch in dismay as it gets within range to strike you down.

Evard: ()

Uriel: (5) You pull off what you think is a wonderful accent. Unfortunately those on the other side don't seem to be able to understand what you said in it. The door opens a crack, and you notice a Dwarf looking through the crack in the door, he seems to see the Zombie Lord and then slams the door shut in your face before anything else can be said. You don't hear anything else from the room.

Keegra: (8) You notice the Zombie Lord making its charge just in time and decide to counter-charge it. Never one to miss a battle you go in all fists flying.

Fight!: (Keegra gets (16 + 5 Dam + 1 Cir = 22) vs Zombie Lord gets (5 + 6 + 3 Arm = 14) Keegra Wins, Zombie Lord loses 5 Health. Second attack, Keegra gets (13 + 5 Dam + 1 Cir = 19) vs Zombie Lord gets (5 + 6 + 3 Arm = 14) Keegra Wins, Zombie Lord loses 5 Health. Third attack, Keegra gets (17 + 5 Dam + 1 Cir = 23) vs Zombie Lord gets (5 + 6 + 3 Arm = 14) Keegra Wins, Zombie Lord loses 6 Health.) You smash into the Zombie Lord and throw punches left and right, weakening it severely.

Xiv'riit: (6) You hear the voices trying to work out exactly what Uriel said, but after the door has been opened a crack and then promptly shut again you cannot hear anymore, they have obviously moved away from the door and so you can no longer hear them.

Kali: ()

Yeleni: ()

Priya: ()

Davug: (3) You watch as the Zombie Lord heads for the door before turning around and charging straight at Virro. You freeze with indecision, not entirely sure what to do.

Shaban: (10) You head into the other room and find a weird black robe on one of the armour stands, picking it up you realize it is magical,but there is no way to know exactly what it does until someone wears it. And seeing as your master did not tell you to wear it you won't. Gained Necromancers Robe (+1 Armour, Other Effects)

Zombie Lord: (12) You start to walk away from Virro. (4) As you do you feel his control over you slipping and you feel free to wreck your revenge, first on Virro then on anything else in your way. With your rage all you can focus on you turn and charge at your former master (+2 Dam in this round of combat). Your hatred of all things living also bubbles through as your limited mind plans to slaughter everything you can (+3 Dam against other Living beings). Mid-Charge you notice an arrow from your former master bounce off your armour and your eagerness to slay him only increases. Whilst your charge is successful, it has put strain on your new body and part of it fails to take the strain. As you lift your off arm to strike down with the Mace it flies off, your undead body now less one limb. (-3 Inj 2 Turns Remaining), fortunately you keep your Mace in the other hand and can still hit with it.

Fight!: (Zombie Lord gets (15 + 6 Dam -3 Inj = 18) vs Virro gets (7 + 5 + 1 Cir = 13). Virro loses 5 Health.) Mace in hand, the Zombie Lord manages to use it against the cowering Virro, even without one of its arms. Still a threat, it ignores the blows raining down on it from Keegra behind and focuses on Virro in front of it.

Characters:

Virro: Weapons - Shortbow(+2) Quiver(36 Arrows), Armour - , Other - (+1 Cir when guarding a door or doorway), Orc Bodyguard (You control what your Orc Bodyguard does each round), Undead Orc Bodyguard, Zombie Lord, Necromantic Genius (+2 Cir when trying to raise undead), Health 25/26

Evard: Weapons - Dagger(+2), Dagger(+1), Armour - Studded Leather Armour(+4, Invisibility), Other - Invisibility (Can turn invisible for one round (counts as a passive action), Cannot be noticed or attacked by enemies whilst invisible, +1 Circumstance when attacking whilst invisible. Invisibility can be activated once every 4 Rounds (Rounds Remaining 0, Invs ready to activate)), Health 27/23

Uriel: Weapons - Club(+2), Armour - Sturdy Robes(+1), 2 Leather Armour(Light +2 Can't be Worn) Other - Belt of Advanced Monk Training (+3 Dam when unarmed.), Knife-Hand (+2 Dam when Unarmed, Can only hold items with one hand.), Club(+2, Not used) Health 33/29

Keegra: Weapons - , Armour - , Other - Ring of Thur ('Rub thrice and drop it' and a mysterious stranger may arrive to help you for a turn, One use only), Belt of Monk Training(+1Dam when unarmed), Health 26/22

Xiv'riit: Weapons – Spork(+3), Armour - , Other - , Ring of Thur ('Rub thrice and drop it' and a mysterious stranger may arrive to help you for a turn, One use only), (+2 Cir when interacting with Zombie Lord), Health 25/28

Kali: Weapons - Deer Shot(+3, Deer Fling), Armour - Leather Armour(+1), Other - Deer Fling (Once per room, you may fling a Deer instead of a stone at an enemy. This does +1D8 damage, and the difference between the offence and defence scores (either way) is taken as damage by the Deer. If it survives this it stays around as a permanent companion following your orders), Health 16/12

Yeleni: Weapons - Quarterstaff(+2), Armour - , Other - , Health 30/26

Priya: Weapons - Monk's Spade(+2), Armour - Banded Armour (Heavy, +4), Other - , Health 19/25

Davug: Weapons - Mace(+2), Longsword(+1), Armour - Studded Leather Armour(+3) Leather Armour(+2, Not Used), Other- , Health 25/26

Shaban: Weapons - , Armour - Leather Armour (Light +2), Other- Necromancers Robe (+1 Armour, Other Effects, Not Used) , Health 3/7

Zombie Lord: Weapons - Mace(+1), Armour - Scale Mail(Mail. +3), Other- One Arm (Cannot use Two handed weapons, or a second weapon/shield (-3 Inj 2 Turns Remaining)) Hatred of the Living (+3 Dam against other Living beings), Health 11/27

Loot in Room 4: 2 Leather Armour(Light +2),

Virro: (10 + 2 Cir = 12) You successfully raise the Zombie, and with a burst of magic you make it stronger than before. You almost feel like you want to laugh as your new creation stitches itself back together and begins to flex its muscles and bend down to pick up the Mace on the floor. Amidst your triumph you fail to notice the Zombie Lord gain a bit of sentience, unknown to you it remembers what happened to it before and wishes to break free of your control. Either way you have become better at raising the dead through this. Gained Zombie Lord (Rolls 2D6 every round independent of its action, on a 2, 3 or 4 it breaks free of its control and becomes hostile to Virro) Necromantic Genius (+2 Cir when trying to raise undead).

Evard: ()

Uriel: (4) You realise that with potential enemies next door, making tea now is not a good idea.

Keegra: (9) You stand by the door, ready to jump out at anything that comes through it. (+1 Cir against anything that comes through the door next turn).

Xiv'riit: (9) You watch the Zombie as it arises anew, and you make careful consideration of exactly where it's weaknesses are, and what it is like. (+2 Cir when interacting with Zombie Lord).

Kali: ()

Yeleni: ()

Priya: ()

Davug: (10) You go and stand guard with Keegra, no longer hiding the fact that you admire her and the way she fights, so much so that you are actually more confident now when you are in a fight with Keegra. Admirer(+2 Cir when fighting alongside Keegra)

Shaban: ()

Zombie Lord: (7) Picking up the mace in your hands you feel ready to do some damage, you also notice a piece of Scale Mail lying around and decide to take it to provide you with more protection than just your skin. (9) You cannot shake off your loyalty to Virro and so still feel like you must obey his command.

Characters:

Virro: Weapons - Shortbow(+2) Quiver(37 Arrows), Armour - , Other - (+1 Cir when guarding a door or doorway), Orc Bodyguard (You control what your Orc Bodyguard does each round), Undead Orc Bodyguard, Zombie Lord, Necromantic Genius (+2 Cir when trying to raise undead), Health 30/26

Evard: Weapons - Dagger(+2), Dagger(+1), Armour - Studded Leather Armour(+4, Invisibility), Other - Invisibility (Can turn invisible for one round (counts as a passive action), Cannot be noticed or attacked by enemies whilst invisible, +1 Circumstance when attacking whilst invisible. Invisibility can be activated once every 4 Rounds (Rounds Remaining 0, Invs ready to activate)), Health 27/23

Uriel: Weapons - 2 Club(+2), Armour - Sturdy Robes(+1), 2 Leather Armour(Light +2 Can't be Worn) Other - Belt of Advanced Monk Training (+3 Dam when unarmed.), Health 33/29

Keegra: Weapons - , Armour - , Other - Ring of Thur ('Rub thrice and drop it' and a mysterious stranger may arrive to help you for a turn, One use only), Belt of Monk Training(+1Dam when unarmed), Health 26/22

Xiv'riit: Weapons – Spork(+3), Armour - , Other - , Ring of Thur ('Rub thrice and drop it' and a mysterious stranger may arrive to help you for a turn, One use only), (+2 Cir when interacting with Zombie Lord), Health 25/28

Kali: Weapons - Deer Shot(+3, Deer Fling), Armour - Leather Armour(+1), Other - Deer Fling (Once per room, you may fling a Deer instead of a stone at an enemy. This does +1D8 damage, and the difference between the offence and defence scores (either way) is taken as damage by the Deer. If it survives this it stays around as a permanent companion following your orders), Health 16/12

Yeleni: Weapons - Quarterstaff(+2), Armour - , Other - , Health 30/26

Priya: Weapons - Monk's Spade(+2), Armour - Banded Armour (Heavy, +4), Other - , Health 19/25

Davug: Weapons - Mace(+2), Longsword(+1), Armour - Studded Leather Armour(+3) Leather Armour(+2, Not Used), Other- , Health 25/26

Shaban: Weapons - , Armour - Leather Armour (Light +2), Other- , Health 3/7

Zombie Lord: Weapons - Mace(+1), Armour - Scale Mail(Mail. +3), Other- (Rolls 2D6 every round independent of its action, on a 2, 3 or 4 it breaks free of its control and becomes hostile to Virro), Health 27/27

Loot in Room 4: 2 Leather Armour(Light +2),

Virro: (7) An ancient Cosmic being laughs and decides to maybe stop screwing you around, for now at least. Unaware of this however, you fire your bow at Zombie 7. Unfortunately Zombie 2 has broken free of your control and will no longer listen to you.

Fight!: (Virro gets (17 + 2 Dam + 1 Cir = 20) vs Zombie 7 gets (13 + 6 = 19). Zombie 1 loses 1 Health) Despite now having an arrow protruding from its side, Zombie 7 does really not notice it and continues what it was doing, which is, trying to defend against a much greater threat..

Evard: ()

Uriel: (7 -1Cir = 6) You clumsily throw your mace at Zombie 7 (No Dam bonus during that combat), after all some weapons are not meant to be thrown. Your attempt at getting 'knife-hand' works really well, too well in fact as you find you cannot unwill them and get your hand back to normal. Gained Knife-Hand (+2 Dam when Unarmed, Can only hold items with one hand.)

Fight!: (Uriel's Mace gets (18) vs Zombie 7 gets (15 + 6 = 21) Nothing happens.).

Fight!: (Uriel gets (18 + 3 Cir + 6 Dam = 27) vs Zombie 7 gets (6 + 6 = 12) Zombie 7 loses 14 Health. Critical Hit! Uriel's second hit gets (14) vs Zombie 7 gets (12) Zombie 7 loses 2 Health. Uriel gets a third hit in with his other fist. Uriel gets (17 + 3 Cir + 6 Dam = 26) vs Zombie 7 gets (6 + 6 = 12) Zombie 7 loses 12 Health, Critical Hit! Uriel gets (13) vs Zombie 7 gets (12) Zombie 7 loses 1 Health. Zombie 7 dies.)

You watch your mace miss the zombie, flying past its leg and landing at its feet. your charge is more successful. With fists of fury you beat Zombie 7 into the ground, making sure that it will definitely stay down this time. You vent some of your anger out onto it, even after it is dead and find it is a good stress reliever and punching bag.

Keegra: (7) Launching yourself at Zombie 1 you find yourself giggling with glee, whether it is because you are once again fighting something or because you no longer have to use that stupid accent you're not sure, and to be honest at the moment you don't really care.

Fight!: (Keegra gets (10 + 4 Dam +1 Cir = 15) vs Zombie 1 gets (2 + 6 = 8). Zombie 1 loses 6 Health. Keegra's second attack gets (20 + 4 Dam +1 Cir = 25) vs Zombie 1 gets (2 + 6 = 8). Zombie 1 loses 9 Health. Critical Hit! Keegra gets (13) vs Zombie 1 gets (8). Zombie 1 loses 3 Health. Keegra's third attack gets (17 + 4 Dam +1 Cir = 22) vs Zombie 1 gets (2 + 6 = 8) Zombie 1 loses 14 Health. Critical Hit! Keegra gets (11) vs Zombie 1 gets (8) Zombie 1 loses 2 Health. Zombie 1 dies.)

With great enthusiasm, you launch yourself at the Zombie and smash it into tiny little pieces, all the while grinning like a (slight) maniac. Between this and when you first entered the room you have truly become adept and killing undead with your fists.

Xiv'riit: (7) You successfully scrawl or remember the remaining formula's as you start to attack the Zombie with your faithful Spork.

Fight!: (Xiv'riit gets (16 + 3 Dam + 2Cir = 21) vs Zombie 4 gets (6 + 6 = 12) Zombie 4 loses 6 Health.) Jabbing again and again at the Zombie you seriously wound it with your Spork although you fail to actually kill it.

Kali: ()

Yeleni: ()

Priya: (9) With a dexterous twist of your tail you send the blade of your Monk's Spade into both of the remaining hostile zombies, and thankfully only them.

Fight!: (Priya gets (13 + 4 Dam = 17) vs Zombie 2 gets (8 + 6 = 14) Zombie 2 loses 1 Health.) Lightly nicking it as it tries to jump out of your way, you notice the two zombies still under control of the Necromancer closing in on your first target and hope you do not have to worry about it.

Fight!: (Priya gets (12 + 4 Dam = 17) vs Zombie 4 gets (10 + 6 = 16) Zombie 4 loses 1 Health.) Careful not to hit your allies you have to twitch your tail at the last second as the studious one gets up to fight, thus you only cause a glancing blow to it despite your best efforts.

Davug: (10) Noticing Zombie 1 getting taken out by the Half-Orc, and admiring her way too much to try and fight alongside her, you'd just get in her way after all. Davug turns his attention to Zombie 4. Jumping over the Monk's Spade that is attached to the Lizardwomen's tail, Davug is able to use this leap to get a bit more force behind his attacks. (+1 Cir this round in combat.)

Fight!: (Davug gets (6 + 1 Dam + 1 Cir = 8) vs (Zombie 4 gets (4 + 6 = 10). Nothing happens) Unfortunately with the leap your aim for your longsword is off and it fails to strike anything.

Fight!: (Davug gets (11 + 2 Dam + 1 Cir = 14) vs Zombie 4 gets (4 + 6 = 10). Zombie 4 loses 4 Health.) Between your Mace's strike, the Shardmind's Spork and the Lizardwomen's Monk's Spade, Zombie 4 falls. Pleased with yourself for winning the battle and your own bit of tactical thinking you watch the rest of the battle.

Shaban: (7) With a groan you launch yourself at the Zombie that has broken free of your masters control, thoughts of doing likewise don't even occur to you.

Fight!: (Shaban gets (20) vs Zombie 2 gets (3 + 6 = 9) Zombie 2 loses 8 Health. Critical Hit! Shaban gets (10) vs Zombie 2 gets (9) Zombie 2 loses 1 Health. Shaban gets (20) vs Zombie 2 gets (9) Zombie 2 loses 9 Health. Critical Hit! Shaban gets (10) vs Zombie 2 gets (9) Zombie 2 loses 1 Health. Zombie 2 dies.) With a fury you haven't used in a while you massacre your fallen comrade..

Zombie 3: (3 - 1 Inj = 2) You Shamble forwards, not looking where you are going, and end up walking into the dangerous part of a Monk's Spade. Zombie 3 loses 8 Health. Splitting you in half, you have no time to think on what just happened before you cease to be... Again. Zombie 3 dies.

Room 4: Where once 8 Zombies waited to attack adventurers, now all have fallen prey to the party, most for a second time. The room itself has three other exits, two on the right hand, West wall, one noticeably nearer than the other, the other exit door is in the East wall two thirds of the way down the room. Where the far wall used to change colour has now been revealed as a secret passageway leading to a door to the South..

Characters:

Virro: Weapons - Shortbow(+2) Quiver(37 Arrows), Armour - , Other - (+1 Cir when guarding a door or doorway), Orc Bodyguard (You control what your Orc Bodyguard does each round), Undead Orc Bodyguard, Health 30/26

Evard: Weapons - Dagger(+2), Dagger(+1), Armour - Studded Leather Armour(+4, Invisibility), Other - Invisibility (Can turn invisible for one round (counts as a passive action), Cannot be noticed or attacked by enemies whilst invisible, +1 Circumstance when attacking whilst invisible. Invisibility can be activated once every 4 Rounds (Rounds Remaining 0, Invs ready to activate)), Health 27/23

Uriel: Weapons - 2 Club(+2), Armour - Sturdy Robes(+1), 2 Leather Armour(Light +2 Can't be Worn) Other - Belt of Advanced Monk Training (+3 Dam when unarmed.), Health 33/29

Keegra: Weapons - , Armour - , Other - Ring of Thur ('Rub thrice and drop it' and a mysterious stranger may arrive to help you for a turn, One use only), Belt of Monk Training(+1Dam when unarmed), Health 26/22

Xiv'riit: Weapons – Spork(+3), Armour - , Other - , Ring of Thur ('Rub thrice and drop it' and a mysterious stranger may arrive to help you for a turn, One use only), Health 25/28

Kali: Weapons - Deer Shot(+3, Deer Fling), Armour - Leather Armour(+1), Other - Deer Fling (Once per room, you may fling a Deer instead of a stone at an enemy. This does +1D8 damage, and the difference between the offence and defence scores (either way) is taken as damage by the Deer. If it survives this it stays around as a permanent companion following your orders), Health 16/12

Yeleni: Weapons - Quarterstaff(+2), Armour - , Other - , Health 30/26

Priya: Weapons - Monk's Spade(+2), Armour - Banded Armour (Heavy, +4), Other - , Health 19/25

Davug: Weapons - Mace(+2), Longsword(+1), Armour - Studded Leather Armour(+3) Leather Armour(+2, Not Used), Other- , Health 25/26

Shaban: Weapons - , Armour - Leather Armour (Light +2), Other- , Health 3/7

Loot in Room 4: Scale Mail(Mail. +3), 2 Leather Armour(Light +2), Mace(+1). Zombie 3

Virro: (2) With a burst of magical power you pour your will into all of the remaining corpses and giggle slightly with glee as they all return to life. Unfortunately, they have all risen to life AGAINST you and your party and you will have to fight them again. Even worse, you realize they are impervious to your attempts to control them, and they will be impossible to raise again once you have defeated them this second time. Zombies 1, 4, 7 and 8 all return to 'life' and are hostile to the party.

Evard:() Suddenly the room is no longer as safe as it once was and you flee back into the corridor to the North to hopefully become safe.

Uriel: (4) You search the room more thoroughly but find nothing, apart from four corpses Virro has returned from the dead and somehow set them to be hostile to you.

Keegra: (3) Noticing that only two of the six zombies in the room are on your side you freeze as you try to decide whether opening the door is such a good idea or not. A battle on two fronts is not a strategically good move, no matter how much you lust for battle.

Xiv'riit: ()

Kali:() Suddenly the room is no longer as safe as it once was and you flee back into the corridor to the North to hopefully become safe.

Yeleni:() Suddenly the room is no longer as safe as it once was and you flee back into the corridor to the North to hopefully become safe.

Priya: (12) You manage to grab the Greatsword before it's previous owner comes back from the dead, and noticing it doing so you immediately smash your newly obtained Greatsword into it's head repeatedly. Unfortunately on your last bash you drop the weapon and somehow its blade smashes into loads of tiny pieces which fly everywhere. Most of the pieces hit the zombie and finish it off. However several hit you, finding their way between your armour and into your skin (-10 Health). Well at least you still have your Monk's Spade.

Davug: (8) You head over to loot the bodies, and you are able to get to one Zombie and remove its Leather Armour(Light, +2) and Club(+2) before it rises and starts advancing on you in a decidedly unfriendly manner. However you make no effort to defend as your master has not commanded you to.

Shaban: (4) You stumble to a stop way before the door you were meant to stand in as the zombies rise again to face your master and his friends. You hear their call and wonder which side would be better to join... then you remind yourself of your masters complete control over you and you wonder how you had that thought.

Zombie 2: (6 - 2 Cir = 4) You start to shake free of Virro's control as you see your Zombie friend's rise however you are unable to actually do anything.

Zombie 3: (7 -1Inj = 6) You stumble towards the Eastern door as told to, however you don't quite make it, realizing your fellow Zombie under Virro's will has not moved you move yourself to a position that can overlook both doors if need be... the North-Western corner to be precise.

Zombie 1: (9) You get up and advance on Davug who doesn't seem to be actively defending himself. (+1 Cir until Davug starts to defend). Thankfully (for him) he stripped you of your weapons and armour before you were able to attack him.

Fight!: (Zombie 1 gets (18 + 1Cir = 19) vs Davug (2 + 6 + 3Arm +1Cir = 12). Zombie 1 wins, Davug loses 5 Health). The Zombie punches and claws away at Davug seemingly randomly, although this tactic does seem to work.

Zombie 4: (7) Getting up, you charge at the nearest living being, ready to kill. That it is the Shardmind that helped kill many of your fellow Zombies just makes it better.

Fight!: (Zombie 4 gets (18) vs Xiv'riit (13 + 5 + 2Cir = 20) Even whilst still working out hypothetical formulas in the dirt, Xiv'riit is able to capably hold off the Zombie, pushing it away with one hand.

Zombie 7: (4) Surprised at your reanimation and even further surprised by the lack of ownership the elven Necromancer has over you, you scream in what you mean to be joy, but most would describe a rage and begin to work out who you want to kill first.

Room 4: Where once 8 Zombies waited to attack adventurers, now all have fallen prey to a Shardmind and a Half-Orc. The two Zombies killed outright by Xiv'riit's blast of healing magic are now nothing but dust. One of the remaining Zombies have been bought back onto the party's side, another has escaped Virro's control and is now hostile. However the other 4, despite having been stripped of loot, have risen again and are hostile to the party, due to a mistake by Virro. The room itself has three other exits, two on the right hand, West wall, one noticeably nearer than the other, the other exit door is in the East wall two thirds of the way down the room. Where the far wall used to change colour has now been revealed as a secret passageway leading to a door to the South..

Characters:

Virro: Weapons - Shortbow(+2) Quiver(38 Arrows), Armour - , Other - (+1 Cir when guarding a door or doorway), Orc Bodyguard (You control what your Orc Bodyguard does each round), Undead Orc Bodyguard, 1 Zombie, Health 30/26

Evard: Weapons - Dagger(+2), Dagger(+1), Armour - Studded Leather Armour(+4, Invisibility), Other - Invisibility (Can turn invisible for one round (counts as a passive action), Cannot be noticed or attacked by enemies whilst invisible, +1 Circumstance when attacking whilst invisible. Invisibility can be activated once every 4 Rounds (Rounds Remaining 0, Invs ready to activate)), Health 27/23

Uriel: Weapons - 2 Club(+2), Mace(+1), Armour - Sturdy Robes(+1), 2 Leather Armour(Light +2 Can't be Worb) Other - Belt of Advanced Monk Training (+3 Dam when unarmed.), Health 33/29

Keegra: Weapons - , Armour - , Other - Ring of Thur ('Rub thrice and drop it' and a mysterious stranger may arrive to help you for a turn, One use only), Belt of Monk Training(+1Dam when unarmed), Health 26/22

Xiv'riit: Weapons – Spork(+3), Armour - , Other - , Ring of Thur ('Rub thrice and drop it' and a mysterious stranger may arrive to help you for a turn, One use only), Health 25/28

Kali: Weapons - Deer Shot(+3, Deer Fling), Armour - Leather Armour(+1), Other - Deer Fling (Once per room, you may fling a Deer instead of a stone at an enemy. This does +1D8 damage, and the difference between the offence and defence scores (either way) is taken as damage by the Deer. If it survives this it stays around as a permanent companion following your orders), Health 16/12

Yeleni: Weapons - Quarterstaff(+2), Armour - , Other - , Health 30/26

Priya: Weapons - Monk's Spade(+2), Armour - Banded Armour (Heavy, +4), Other - , Health 19/25

Davug: Weapons - Mace(+2), Longsword(+1), Armour - Studded Leather Armour(+3) Leather Armour(+2, Not Used), Other- , Health 25/26

Shaban: Weapons - , Armour - Leather Armour (Light +2), Other- , Health 3/7

Zombie 3: Weapons - , Armour - , Other- No thumbs (-4 Cir when trying to wield a weapon), Stubbed Toe (-1 Inj, 3 Turns Remaining) , Health 8/8

Zombie 1: Weapons - , Armour - , Other - , Health 14/14

Zombie 2: Weapons - , Armour - , Other - , Health 4/4

Zombie 4: Weapons - , Armour - , Other - , Health 11/11

Zombie 7: Weapons - , Armour - , Other - , Health 19/19

Loot in Room 4: Scale Mail(Mail. +3), 2 Leather Armour(Light +2).

Virro: (5) You are able to successfully raise one zombie, although you were aiming for two and the second seems to have collapsed in on itself (and definitely won't get back up). Unfortunately for you, the Zombie you raised was both unarmed and unarmoured, and upon closer inspection you realise that its hands are missing the thumbs, making the likelihood of it being able to hold a weapon very low. Still, at least it's one more minion to throw at others, right? Gained Zombie 3

Evard: () Now that the Room is empty, you move up to Room 4

Uriel: (11) You search through One of the two remaining graves, whilst at first glance the corpse resting inside the grave has nothing of note on its person, you notice the buckle of its belt shining oddly. picking it up you examine it, and seeing it is magical you put it on. You feel strength coursing through your veins, and you feel even more competent with your unarmed training than you did before. Unknown to you, the corpse you looted once belonged to a monk of a long forgotten order, and whilst Keegra was fortunate to loot his apprentice's body, you have had the luck to loot the body of a master monk himself. The belt is a Belt of Advanced Monk Training (+3 Dam when unarmed.)

Keegra: (7) Heading over to the eastern door, you can hear part of a conversation going on on the other side of the door. "... you sure?" "Well, it sure sounds quiet out there, and we all felt that burst of healing magic." "Let's get ready anyway. It could be a trap." The voices get quieter as they head away from the door. From the sounds of it the people on the other side of the door may just be friendlies, although you've seen and heard no evidence of a group passing through the Bore-Hole to take on Paarnax before you for quite a while...

Xiv'riit: (4) Awed at the awesome use of your powers over the last couple of turns you start to think of all the different ways you could possibly use this, if you can tap into it again that is. Using the dirt you start to scribble down some equations and hypotheses and try to solidify your understanding of what happened and to work out if you could use this to advance clerical skills the world over, assuming you survive of course.

Kali () Now that the Room is empty, you move up to Room 4

Yeleni: () Now that the Room is empty, you move up to Room 4

Priya: ()

Daug: (7) You manage to successfully loot the final grave. Although there is no corpse inside it, there is a set of Leather Armour(+2) and a Mace(+2). The Armour is worse than what you currently have, but the Mace is better than your old longsword, and unless your Master asks otherwise you'll be using your newly found mace as well from now on.

Shaban: (7) You go and obediently stand in the corner.

Zombie 2: (9- 2Cir = 7) You successfully stay under Virro's control, although for some reason you feel like you've only just been placed here...

Zombie 3: (6) You shuffle around uncertain of what to do now that you've fallen under the control of this elven mortal. You don't see one of your old fellows and stub your toe on him (-1 Inj, 4 Turns Remaining)

Room 4: Where once 8 Zombies waited to attack adventurers, now all have fallen prey to a Shardmind and a Half-Orc. The two Zombies killed outright by Xiv'riit's blast of healing magic are now nothing but dust, however the other six still lay on the ground, able to potentially be resurrected. The room itself has three other exits, two on the right hand, West wall, one noticeably nearer than the other, the other exit door is in the East wall two thirds of the way down the room. Where the far wall used to change colour has now been revealed as a secret passageway leading to a door to the South..

Characters:

Virro: Weapons - Shortbow(+2) Quiver(38 Arrows), Armour - , Other - (+1 Cir when guarding a door or doorway), Orc Bodyguard (You control what your Orc Bodyguard does each round), Undead Orc Bodyguard, 1 Zombie Health 30/26

Evard: Weapons - Dagger(+2), Dagger(+1), Armour - Studded Leather Armour(+4, Invisibility), Other - Invisibility (Can turn invisible for one round (counts as a passive action), Cannot be noticed or attacked by enemies whilst invisible, +1 Circumstance when attacking whilst invisible. Invisibility can be activated once every 4 Rounds (Rounds Remaining 0, Invs ready to activate)), Health 27/23

Uriel: Weapons - Mace(+1), Armour - Sturdy Robes(+1), Other - , Health 33/29

Keegra: Weapons - , Armour - , Other - Ring of Thur ('Rub thrice and drop it' and a mysterious stranger may arrive to help you for a turn, One use only), Health 26/22

Xiv'riit: Weapons – Spork(+3), Armour - , Other - , Ring of Thur ('Rub thrice and drop it' and a mysterious stranger may arrive to help you for a turn, One use only), Health 25/28

Kali: Weapons - Deer Shot(+3, Deer Fling), Armour - Leather Armour(+1), Other - Deer Fling (Once per room, you may fling a Deer instead of a stone at an enemy. This does +1D8 damage, and the difference between the offence and defence scores (either way) is taken as damage by the Deer. If it survives this it stays around as a permanent companion following your orders), Health 16/12

Yeleni: Weapons - Quarterstaff(+2), Armour - , Other - , Health 30/26

Priya: Weapons - Monk's Spade(+2), Armour - Banded Armour (Heavy, +4), Other - , Health 29/25

Davug: Weapons - Mace(+2), Longsword(+1), Armour - Studded Leather Armour(+3), Other- , Health 30/26

Shaban: Weapons - , Armour - Leather Armour (Light +2), Other- , Health 3/7

Zombie 2: Weapons - , Armour - , Other- , Health 3/3

Zombie 3: Weapons - , Armour - , Other- No thumbs (-4 Cir when trying to wield a weapon), Stubbed Toe (-1 Inj, 4 Turns Remaining) , Health 8/8

Loot in Room 4: [Leather Armour(Light +2), Club(+2)] Zombie 1, [Hide Armour(Light, +1)] Zombie 4, [Scale Mail(Mail. +3), Greatsword(+2)] Zombie 8. (12 graves which may be lootable, 8 of which are open obviously the ones from which the Zombies came from) All grave plots count as having been looted.

Virro: (8) You manage to successfully use your Necromantic heritage to bring Zombie 2 under your control, however you feel that what is left of its mind is resisting you and you fear you shall not be able to control it forever, and once it does escape your control you will not be able to try and take control of it again.

Evard: ()

Uriel: (10) You loot two of the graves, Besides the remains of two elves in both of them you find a pair of Clubs(+2) and two sets of Leather Armour(+2). Swinging one of the clubs to test it out, you accidentally hit the odd-coloured part of the Southern wall of Room 4 and watch in surprise as the illusion collapses, the corridor continues South for a small bit before stopping at a door with the number 10 on it.

Keegra: (10) Despite how much you want to loot the bodies, there is still a zombie next to you, You decide to smash it to death quickly and THEN loot the bodies. (Fight!: Keegra gets (20 + 4Dam = 24) vs Zombie 2 gets (11 + 6 + 2Arm = 19) Keegra does 5 Damage, Zombie 2 dies) Quickly stomping the Zombie into the dirt (literally) you set about looting, picking up a nice number of teeth (11) from the dead Zombies. Leaning down to loot the now-deceased Zombie, you take it's Leather Armour(+2) and its Club(+2) before noticing its belt, unstrapping it from around its waist and picking it up you feel the magic coming from it. Putting it on you discover it is a Belt of Monk Training(+1Dam when unarmed), normally used by novice monk's who are training to make their fists the deadly force that yours are.

Xiv'riit: (11) Noticing Keegra's continued assault on the Zombie you try to use your healing prowess to aid her. Your magic almost seems to be expecting this and another powerful burst of healing magic goes through the area, affecting those in the starting room, the Orc barracks and the Zombie cemetery as well as the corridor that links the three. (Everyone in the area gains 4 Health, apart from Undead who lose 4 Health, this health can go beyond a persons normal max health.)

Kali ()

Yeleni: ()

Priya: () Having heard of the group of adventurers planning to conquer the Bore-Hole and beat Paarnax, you headed out from your homeland to join them. Unfortunately you arrive after they had set out and you have always been behind until now. Entering into the starting room, you barely notice the members of the party still in the room, or the fact that the door behind you has slammed shut and seemingly melded back into the wall again. Scampering down the corridor you find yourself in front of Room 4.

Orc Bodyguard (9) Having not been given an order you continue to watch the Half-Orc at work.

Zombie Orc Bodyguard: (8) Shaben waits for its Masters orders.

Room 4: Where once 8 Zombies waited to attack adventurers, now all have fallen prey to a Shardmind and a Half-Orc. The two Zombies killed outright by Xiv'riit's blast of healing magic are now nothing but dust, however the other six still lay on the ground, able to potentially be resurrected. The room itself has three other exits, two on the right hand, West wall, one noticeably nearer than the other, the other exit door is in the East wall two thirds of the way down the room. Where the far wall used to change colour has now been revealed as a secret passageway leading to a door to the South..

Characters:

Virro: Weapons - Shortbow(+2) Quiver(38 Arrows), Armour - , Other - (+1 Cir when guarding a door or doorway), Orc Bodyguard (You control what your Orc Bodyguard does each round), Undead Orc Bodyguard, Health 30/26

Evard: Weapons - Dagger(+2), Dagger(+1), Armour - Studded Leather Armour(+4, Invisibility), Other - Invisibility (Can turn invisible for one round (counts as a passive action), Cannot be noticed or attacked by enemies whilst invisible, +1 Circumstance when attacking whilst invisible. Invisibility can be activated once every 4 Rounds (Rounds Remaining 0, Invs ready to activate)), Health 27/23

Uriel: Weapons - Mace(+1), Armour - Sturdy Robes(+1), Other - , Health 33/29

Keegra: Weapons - , Armour - , Other - Ring of Thur ('Rub thrice and drop it' and a mysterious stranger may arrive to help you for a turn, One use only), Health 26/22

Xiv'riit: Weapons – Spork(+3), Armour - , Other - , Ring of Thur ('Rub thrice and drop it' and a mysterious stranger may arrive to help you for a turn, One use only), Health 25/28

Kali: Weapons - Deer Shot(+3, Deer Fling), Armour - Leather Armour(+1), Other - Deer Fling (Once per room, you may fling a Deer instead of a stone at an enemy. This does +1D8 damage, and the difference between the offence and defence scores (either way) is taken as damage by the Deer. If it survives this it stays around as a permanent companion following your orders), Health 16/12

Yeleni: Weapons - Quarterstaff(+2), Armour - , Other - , Health 30/26

Priya: Weapons - Monk's Spade(+2), Armour - Banded Armour (Heavy, +4), Other - , Health 29/25

Orc Bodyguard: Weapons - Longsword(+1), Armour - Studded Leather Armour(+3), Other- , Health 30/26

Undead Orc Bodyguard: Weapons - , Armour - Leather Armour (Light +2), Other- , Health 3/7

Loot in Room 4: [Leather Armour(Light +2), Club(+2)] Zombie 1, [Zombies 2, 3 and 7 have nothing on them], [Hide Armour(Light, +1)] Zombie 4, [Scale Mail(Mail. +3), Greatsword(+2)] Zombie 8. (12 graves which may be lootable, 8 of which are open obviously the ones from which the Zombies came from) Grave plots 9 and 10 have not been looted, 11 and 12 have.

Virro: (7) Concentrating on your magic you are able to draw the lifeforce of the dead Orc back into its body. Unfortunately not everything worked as planned as your new Undead Orc Bodyguard seems to have lost quite a few grey cells and is now unable to use any weapon effectively. Also, you know that as an undead he is not able to get any of the skills Orcs normally get. Gained Undead Orc Bodyguard.

Evard: ()

Uriel: (7) You find a pair of bagpipes and go and pick them up, someone obviously thought that with the awful noise they made they were a weapon. Unfortunately, if anything playing the bagpipes is more likely to get you attacked by enemies, not less (they know if you're playing the bagpipes you can't defend yourself as well). Gained Bagpipes (-1 Cir in combat when equipped).

Keegra: (10 - 3Inj =7) Letting out a roar you charge into the group of zombies, the first to feel your wrath isn't armed and only wears some rags on his back.

Fight!: (Keegra vs Zombie 3. Keegra gets (17 + 4 Dam = 21) vs Zombie 3 (3 + 6 = 9) Zombie 3 loses 12 Health. Zombie 3 dies). Smashing one Zombie into the dust as a burst of healing magic flows through you, you feel stronger and ready to take on another Zombie, this one is also unarmed and wears only basic ragged clothing. (Keegra vs Zombie 7. Keegra gets (19 + 4 Dam = 23) vs Zombie 7 (12 + 6= 18) Zombie 7 loses 5 Health.) Between your fists and the burst of healing magic, Zombie 7 falls as well. With one strike left in you, you turn towards a slightly tougher opponent, this Zombie is dressed in some cheap looking hide armour. (Keegra vs Zombie 4. Keegra gets (14 + 4 Dam = 18) vs Zombie 4 (5 + 6 + 1 Arm = 12) Zombie 4 loses 6 Health, Zombie 4 dies). With fists of fury you strike it again and again until you realize there is little left of it.

Xiv'riit (11) Noticing Keegra still limping slightly as she charged into the zombies, you focus your healing magics and let them loose. Not only do you heal Keegra's ankle just before she starts fighting, you also let loose a slightly uncontrolled burst of healing magic that spreads out around you. You feel stronger and you are sure Keegra and the Orc Bodyguard are feeling better as well. As most people know, what is good for the living is not good for the undead and your erratic burst of magic damages them all, killing two outright, and letting Keegra finish off two more. (Zombies 2-8 lose 8 Health, Keegra, Orc Bodyguard, Xiv'riit gain 8 Health, all injuries cured before battle.)

Kali ()

Yeleni: ()

Priya: () Having heard of the group of adventurers planning to conquer the Bore-Hole and beat Paarnax, you headed out from your homeland to join them. Unfortunately you arrive after they had set out and you have always been behind until now. Entering into the starting room, you barely notice the members of the party still in the room, or the fact that the door behind you has slammed shut and seemingly melded back into the wall again. Scampering down the corridor you find yourself in front of Room 4.

Orc Bodyguard (6) You make it to the door, but seeing the Half-Orc taking on the zombie quite capably by herself you decide to stop and stare, I mean watch her.

Zombie Orc Bodyguard: (7) Shaben successfully gets up this time.

Zombie 2: (4) Noticing the Half-Orc tear through its fellow zombies with the aid of magic, Zombie 2 stands still in fright. Hoping to be mistaken for anything but a Zombie.

Zombie 8: (7) Zombie 8 decides the best things to do is to attack. And with Keegra being the only viabe target, it decides that to try and gett revenge for its comrades.

Fight!: (Zombie 8 vs Keegra. Zombie 8 gets (1 + 2 Dam = 3) vs Keegra gets (10 + 6 = 16)). Hardly even aware of the Zombie trying to attack her, Keegra stretches lazily from her round of killing and mayhem and manages to snag herself yet another kill as her fist connects with the zombie and kills it.

Room 4: Where once 8 Zombies waited to attack adventurers, now all bar one had fallen prey to a Shardmind and a Half-Orc. The two Zombies killed outright by Xiv'riit's blast of healing magic are now nothing but dust, however the other five still lay on the ground, able to potentially be resurrected. The room itself has three other exits, two on the right hand, West wall, one noticeably nearer than the other, the other exit door is in the East wall two thirds of the way down the room. The far wall changes colour for a little bit roughly opposite the door you entered through.

Characters:

Virro: Weapons - Shortbow(+2) Quiver(38 Arrows), Armour - , Other - (+1 Cir when guarding a door or doorway), Orc Bodyguard (You control what your Orc Bodyguard does each round), Undead Orc Bodyguard, Health 26/26

Evard: Weapons - Dagger(+2), Dagger(+1), Armour - Studded Leather Armour(+4, Invisibility), Other - Invisibility (Can turn invisible for one round (counts as a passive action), Cannot be noticed or attacked by enemies whilst invisible, +1 Circumstance when attacking whilst invisible. Invisibility can be activated once every 4 Rounds (Rounds Remaining 1)), Health 23/23

Uriel: Weapons - Mace(+1), Armour - Sturdy Robes(+1), Other - , Health 29/29

Keegra: Weapons - , Armour - , Other - Ring of Thur ('Rub thrice and drop it' and a mysterious stranger may arrive to help you for a turn, One use only), Health 22/22

Xiv'riit: Weapons – Spork(+3), Armour - , Other - , Ring of Thur ('Rub thrice and drop it' and a mysterious stranger may arrive to help you for a turn, One use only), Health 21/28

Kali: Weapons - Deer Shot(+3, Deer Fling), Armour - Leather Armour(+1), Other - Deer Fling (Once per room, you may fling a Deer instead of a stone at an enemy. This does +1D8 damage, and the difference between the offence and defence scores (either way) is taken as damage by the Deer. If it survives this it stays around as a permanent companion following your orders), Health 12/12

Yeleni: Weapons - Quarterstaff(+2), Armour - , Other - , Health 26/26

Priya: Weapons - Monk's Spade(+2), Armour - Banded Armour (Heavy, +4), Other - , Health 25/25

Orc Bodyguard: Weapons - Longsword(+1), Armour - Studded Leather Armour(+3), Other- , Health 26/26

Undead Orc Bodyguard: Weapons - , Armour - Leather Armour (Light +2), Other- , Health 7/7

Zombie 2: Weapons - Club(+2), Armour - Leather Armour (Light, +2), Other- , Health 1/9

Loot in Room 4: [Leather Armour(Light +2), Club(+2)] Zombie 1, [Zombie 3, Zombie 7], [Hide Armour(Light, +1)] Zombie 4, [Scale Mail(Mail. +3), Greatsword(+2)] Zombie 8. (12 graves which may be lootable, 8 of which are open obviously the ones from which the Zombies came from)

((Sorry I haven't updated this in almost a week now. I honestly forgot about it on Tuesday and then I've been ill since Wednesday (and busy since Thursday, which isn't a nice mix). Round 9 WILL begin 48 hours after this goes out, and I will try my damned best to keep this up (although things may get a bit iffy around Christmas, we'll see). Anyway, onto the dice rolling.))

Virro: (10) You start your well practiced speech on the good points of joining up with you and your group. Even without your bodyguard's sword at his neck, you see that the second Orc is truly listening to your speech and is nodding (as much as it can) along to your points. In fact, you've managed to somehow hire yourself a second Orc bodyguard! Gained Orc Bodyguard 2. (you can give them names you know, just don't get too attached to them).

Evard: ()

Uriel: (3) You manage to get yourself ready for anything. You just forgot that you were planning to go to the door Keegra had been holding shut before you got yourself ready for anything. On the plus side you manage to get what you thought was the Studded Leather Armour on. Turns out it was just some quite Sturdy Robes, but you are confused about how you could not tell the two apart.

Keegra: (9 - 3Inj +1Cir = 7) You manage to limp down the corridor to the door and brace yourself in such a way that the door should remain shut.

Xiv'riit: (11) You manage to successfully focus your healing magics on yourself. Feeling the magic coursing through your veins and healing you, you manage to feel much better and much more invigorated. Gained +9 Health, Invigorated (+2 Cir 3 Turns remaining).

Kali: ()

Yeleni: ()

Orc Bodyguard: (8) At Virro's command you stand over your fellow Orc and manage to look really threatening, holding your blade just over the other Orc's neck. (-1 Cir for Orc 2 this turn)

Orc Bodyguard 2: (7 - 6Inj -1 Cir = 0) Convinced by Virro to become his bodyguard, despite your injuries you start to get up, thinking that everything is OK know. Unfortunately that is the last thought that enters your brain as you manage to kill yourself on your fellow Orc's blade that was still right above your neck. On the plus side you gain a Darwin Award posthumously. Lose -22 Health, Dead.

Room 4: (11) With Keegra now firmly holding the door closed, the occupants of Room 4 do not realise that getting out of their room through the door to the northern corridor has now become that much harder. But that does not stop them from trying. One is lucky enough and manages to knock a hole in the door, unfortunately it loses its head over this fact (quite literally).

Characters:

Virro: Weapons - Shortbow(+2) Quiver(38 Arrows), Armour - , Other - (+1 Cir when guarding a door or doorway), Orc Bodyguard (You control what your Orc Bodyguard does each round), Health 26/26

Evard: Weapons - Dagger(+2), Dagger(+1), Armour - Studded Leather Armour(+4, Invisibility), Other - Invisibility (Can turn invisible for one round (counts as a passive action), Cannot be noticed or attacked by enemies whilst invisible, +1 Circumstance when attacking whilst invisible. Invisibility can be activated once every 4 Rounds (Rounds Remaining 1)), Health 23/23

Uriel: Weapons - Mace(+1), Armour - Sturdy Robes(+1), Other - , Health 29/29

Keegra: Weapons - , Armour - , Other - Ring of Thur ('Rub thrice and drop it' and a mysterious stranger may arrive to help you for a turn, One use only), Bloody Ankle (-3 Inj 1 Turns Remaining), Health 18/22

Xiv'riit: Weapons – Spork(+3), Armour - , Other - , Ring of Thur ('Rub thrice and drop it' and a mysterious stranger may arrive to help you for a turn, One use only), Health 13/28

Kali: Weapons - Deer Shot(+3, Deer Fling), Armour - Leather Armour(+1), Other - Deer Fling (Once per room, you may fling a Deer instead of a stone at an enemy. This does +1D8 damage, and the difference between the offence and defence scores (either way) is taken as damage by the Deer. If it survives this it stays around as a permanent companion following your orders), Health 12/12

Yeleni: Weapons - Quarterstaff(+2), Armour - , Other - , Health 26/26

Orc Bodyguard: Weapons - Longsword(+1), Armour - Studded Leather Armour(+3), Other- , Health 24/26

Loot in Room 4: Leather Armour(Light +2), Club(+2)

Virro: (7) Waiting at, not guarding the door you are fully ready to let the Orc hear the power of your voice. Unfortunately for you (and no matter how well you roll) the Orc can't hear your voice yet.

Evard: (8) You move into position and continue to admire Keegra's muscles, Readying up to attack the Orc you are fully prepared to leap into action (+1 Cir next round)

Uriel: (5) You find a piece of armour that certainly makes you look good, even if it isn't as well armoured as perhaps you'd like it to be. Gained Leather Armour(+1)

Keegra: (9) You brace yourself and manage to hold the door closed, ready to push back against any attempt to open it. When the time is right you manage to pull the door open and send Orc 2 sprawling on the floor (-2 Cir), in a position almost anyone could take advantage of.

Xiv'riit: (2) Still tired from your earlier battle you try to heal Keegra as best you can. However you manage to muddle your actions up, kicking the sword (rather hard) at Keegra and trying to heal Virro's new Orc Bodyguard instead. Given Keegra's tendency to not wear anything armoured, and your own bad luck, it perhaps should not be surprising that the sword manages to hit Keegra in the ankle, causing an injury (-3 Inj 2 Turns Remaining). Your attempts to heal the Orc Bodyguard don't succeed either and instead you (somehow) manage to transfer the damage done to your body (that has not been healed) to the Orc Bodyguard in return for the damage done to him (Xiv'riit -7 Health, Orc Bodyguard +7 Health)

Kali: (8) Like the Tako on the other side of the door you are fully ready for the Orc that is trying to get in (and will probably continue to try until Keegra gives in). Conscious of the proximity of your allies you have chosen to use a normal shot from your sling. (+1 Cir next round)

Yeleni: Still in shock you don't move a muscle.

Orc Bodyguard: (10) Thanking the Shardmind who partially healed him, the Orc Bodyguard picks up the sword now near Keegra's bloody ankle, licking the blood from it, the Orc seems to be slightly healthier strangely. (+4 Health)

Orc 2: (8 - 2Cir -4 Inj = 2) When Keegra unexpectedly opened the door Orc 2 flew through and accidentally landed on its Mace, Damaging itself and causing it to lose 9 Health. In landing on its own Mace it also manages to break the weapon so completely it cannot be used again. In addition to this, the fall also injures the Orc, causing it to suffer from a bad injury (-2 Inj, 3 Turns Remaining).

Room 4: (4) Whatever occupies Room 4 continues to try and beat down the door between it and the corridor to no avail.

Characters:

Virro: Weapons - Shortbow(+2) Quiver(38 Arrows), Armour - , Other - (+1 Cir when guarding a door or doorway), Orc Bodyguard (You control what your Orc Bodyguard does each round), Health 26/26

Evard: Weapons - Dagger(+2), Dagger(+1), Armour - Studded Leather Armour(+4, Invisibility), Other - Invisibility (Can turn invisible for one round (counts as a passive action), Cannot be noticed or attacked by enemies whilst invisible, +1 Circumstance when attacking whilst invisible. Invisibility can be activated once every 4 Rounds (Rounds Remaining 1)), (+1 Cir next round). Health 23/23

Uriel: Weapons - Mace(+1), Armour - Leather Armour(+1), Other - , Health 29/29

Keegra: Weapons - , Armour - , Other - Ring of Thur ('Rub thrice and drop it' and a mysterious stranger may arrive to help you for a turn, One use only), Bloody Ankle (-3 Inj 2 Turns Remaining), Health 18/22

Xiv'riit: Weapons – Spork(+3), Armour - , Other - , Ring of Thur ('Rub thrice and drop it' and a mysterious stranger may arrive to help you for a turn, One use only), Health 13/28

Kali: Weapons - Deer Shot(+3, Deer Fling), Armour - Leather Armour(+1), Other - Deer Fling (Once per room, you may fling a Deer instead of a stone at an enemy. This does +1D8 damage, and the difference between the offence and defence scores (either way) is taken as damage by the Deer. If it survives this it stays around as a permanent companion following your orders), (+1 Cir next round), Health 12/12

Yeleni: Weapons - Quarterstaff(+2), Armour - , Other - , Health 26/26

Orc Bodyguard: Weapons - Longsword(+1), Armour - Studded Leather Armour(+3), Other- , Health 24/26

Orc 2: Weapons - , Armour - Leather Armour (Light +2), Other- Concussion (-4Inj 2 turns remaining), Bad Fall (-2 Inj, 3 Turns Remaining) Health 7/16

Virro: (7) You manage to pick the tea up, pour a cup for Uriel and give it to him. Making sure he is comfortable and able to drink the tea, you go to check on your Orc bodyguard.

Evard: You don't move, remaining in a good position to flank anything coming through the doorway, your nose starts to twitch at the cheesy smell coming from below however.

Uriel: (7) You manage to drink the cup of tea Virro gave you, (6) You feel slightly better and slightly more rejuvenated but that is it. Unfortunately there is no tea left in the pot. Lost item Tea.

Keegra: (10) You manage to shut the door successfully and are able to find the perfect brace position to hold to make sure you won't let the door open, no matter what. You are so successful you manage to remember this position for the future. Gained Brace (+1 Cir when holding a door open or shut and when being pushing).

Xiv'riit: (9 - 2inj = 7) You are successfully able to heal yourself of your injuries.

Kali: You don't move from your position, fortunately on the right side of the doorway.

Yeleni: Still in shock you don't move a muscle.

Orc Bodyguard: (4) You search for a suitable weapon, but don't actually pick one up.

Orc 2: (12) The second Orc charges the now shut door. Unfortunately for it, despite it's fantastic charge, Keegra manages to hold the door shut, her perfect braced position helping her. Even more unfortunately for the Orc, during it's charge it smashed its head into the door, buckling the wood on the other side. This gives it a really bad concussion (-4 Inj, 2 turns remaining)

Room 4: (3) The bashing against the door still continues, pounding like a drum.

Characters:

Virro: Weapons - Shortbow(+2) Quiver(38 Arrows), Armour - , Other - (+1 Cir when guarding a door or doorway), Orc Bodyguard (You control what your Orc Bodyguard does each round), Health 26/26

Evard: Weapons - Dagger(+2), Dagger(+1), Armour - Studded Leather Armour(+4, Invisibility), Other - Invisibility (Can turn invisible for one round (counts as a passive action), Cannot be noticed or attacked by enemies whilst invisible, +1 Circumstance when attacking whilst invisible. Invisibility can be activated once every 4 Rounds (Rounds Remaining 1)). Health 23/23

Uriel: Weapons - Mace(+1), Armour - , Other - , Health 29/29

Keegra: Weapons - , Armour - , Other - Ring of Thur ('Rub thrice and drop it' and a mysterious stranger may arrive to help you for a turn, One use only), Health 18/22

Xiv'riit: Weapons – Spork(+3), Longsword(+1) Armour - , Other - , Ring of Thur ('Rub thrice and drop it' and a mysterious stranger may arrive to help you for a turn, One use only), Health 20/28

Kali: Weapons - Deer Shot(+3, Deer Fling), Armour - Leather Armour(+1), Other - Deer Fling (Once per room, you may fling a Deer instead of a stone at an enemy. This does +1D8 damage, and the difference between the offence and defence scores (either way) is taken as damage by the Deer. If it survives this it stays around as a permanent companion following your orders), Health 12/12

Yeleni: Weapons - Quarterstaff(+2), Armour - , Other - , Health 26/26

Orc Bodyguard: Weapons - , Armour - Studded Leather Armour(+3), Other- , Health 13/26

Orc 2: Weapons - Mace(+1), Armour - Leather Armour (Light +2), Other- Concussion (-4Inj 2 turns remaining), Health 16/16

Virro: (8) Looking around on the weapon racks, you see a nicely crafted shortbow, picking it up you also select a quiver from another rack nearby that contains 38 arrows. Confident with your new weapon you turn your attention back to the rest of the room. Gained Shortbow(+2), Quiver(38 arrows).

Evard: ()

Uriel: (11 +1Cir = 12) Kneeling down, you inspect your fellow Shardmind's wounds, studying them you think you know how to heal them, and so without hesitating you do. However the strain upon both you and Xiv'riit is great, and leaves you both tired and exhausted. Xiv'riit gains 10 Health, Xiv'riit gains Tired (-2 Inj, 2 turns remaining, counts from next turn onwards), Uriel gains Exhausted (Can't do anything next turn)

Keegra: (7) Standing down you strain your hearing as you listen out for any more Orcs. You think you hear the sound of another Orc moving about in the room at the end of the corridor, but you're not sure if that Orc is the only one or if there are more around. As you try to listen closer, the door halfway down the corridor seems to shake with repeated thuds as if something is trying to shove the door open.

Xiv'riit: (3) Still tired from your battering, and noticing Uriel heading over to try and help you, you stay where you are, although you do succeed in picking up the Orc's longsword. Gained Longsword(+1)

Kali: (9) Skipping past the Orc you position yourself in the doorway leading to the corridor, with your keen Halfling senses you notice movement in the room that the Orc came from, and can only sense a single Orc remaining in that room.

Yeleni: Still in shock you don't move a muscle.

Orc Bodyguard: You stand stock still, not knowing quite what the person who hired you was on about, you responded with a series of grunts and groans, but seeing as he hasn't asked you to do anything yet, you assume what you're doing is good enough.

Room 2: (7) A single entity makes itself known at the entrance to the Eastern room, a second Orc. Seeing it's fellow Orc standing there and not fighting the adventurers it is not sure what to do and so continues to stand in the doorway

Room 4: (6) There is a muffled moan as the door to the room halfway down the corridor once again goes thud as something hits it from the other side.

Characters:

Virro: Weapons - Shortbow(+2) Quiver(38 Arrows), Armour - , Other - (+1 Cir when guarding a door or doorway), Orc Bodyguard (You control what your Orc Bodyguard does each round), Health 26/26

Evard: Weapons - Dagger(+2), Dagger(+1), Armour - Studded Leather Armour(+4, Invisibility), Other - Invisibility (Can turn invisible for one round (counts as a passive action), Cannot be noticed or attacked by enemies whilst invisible, +1 Circumstance when attacking whilst invisible. Invisibility can be activated once every 4 Rounds (Rounds Remaining 4)). Health 23/23

Uriel: Weapons - Mace(+1), Armour - , Other - Tea, Exhausted (Can't do anything next turn), Health 29/29

Keegra: Weapons - , Armour - , Other - Ring of Thur ('Rub thrice and drop it' and a mysterious stranger may arrive to help you for a turn, One use only), Health 18/22

Xiv'riit: Weapons – Spork(+3), Longsword(+1) Armour - , Other - Tired (-2 Inj, 2 turns remaining, counts from next turn onwards), Ring of Thur ('Rub thrice and drop it' and a mysterious stranger may arrive to help you for a turn, One use only), Health 20/28

Kali: Weapons - Deer Shot(+3, Deer Fling), Armour - Leather Armour(+1), Other - Deer Fling (Once per room, you may fling a Deer instead of a stone at an enemy. This does +1D8 damage, and the difference between the offence and defence scores (either way) is taken as damage by the Deer. If it survives this it stays around as a permanent companion following your orders), Health 12/12

Yeleni: Weapons - Quarterstaff(+2), Armour - , Other - , Health 26/26

Orc Bodyguard: Weapons - , Armour - Studded Leather Armour(+3), Other- , Health 13/26

((Whilst the combat will appear to go sequentially dependent on the characters position in the order of things, so long as Orc 1 has health we will assume for this (and all) combats that they are actually happening simultaneously))

Virro: (10 - 4Cir = 6) Approaching the Orc, you use your skill with words to try and enthrall him onto your side (20). You succeed in making him believe that, not only is your side in the right but that he is actually your personally bodyguard. Unfortunately your fellow adventurers ignore your pleas for them to calm down and not fight the Orc and so you watch as all your work may be for nothing. Gained (if he survives this round) Orc Bodyguard.

((P.S you can try and enthrall anybody who isn't a PC))

Evard: (6 + 3Cir = 9) You are able to successfully flank the Orc and make use of your natural instinct to backstab any enemy you see. You do so well at the charge you are able to put some of your momentum into hitting the Orc harder than normal (+1 Damage this Round)

Combat!: (Evard vs Orc 1. Evard gets 10 (2 + 3Cir + 5Dam) vs Orc 1 gets 12 (4 + 6 + 3Arm - 1Cir) Nothing happens. Evard's second attack: Evard gets 19 (12+ 3Cir + 4Dam) vs Orc 1 gets 12 (4 + 6 + 3Arm - 1Cir) Orc loses 7 Health) Despite your best efforts as you rush to the Orc's left flank whilst trying to get into the best backstabbing position, you don't aim your blows as perfectly as you might otherwise do. Whilst the Orc's armour seems to take your first blow, your second pierces the armour and strikes the Orc in its side. As a result you hear the Orc let out a loud cry of pain. That must have hurt.

Uriel: (7) You succeed in stepping up to the Orc and get ready to protect your fellow Shardmind from its attacks. Deciding to forgo your mace this time, you use the abilities you gained when you trained as a Brawler to your advantage.

Combat!: (Uriel vs Orc 1. Uriel gets 13 (11 + 2Cir) vs Orc 1 gets 11 (3 + 6 + 3Arm - 1Cir) Orc 1 loses 2 Health. Uriel's second attack: Uriel gets 6 (4 + 2Cir) vs Orc 1 gets 11 (3 + 6 + 3Arm - 1Cir) Nothing Happens) Charging in with the others, you get a good couple of hits off against the Orc, surprising it. Whilst this does manage to get its attention off of Xiv'riit it now turns it attention to you.

Keegra: (8 - 1Inj = 7) You succeed in getting up and charging into the fray, noticing others charging in alongside you makes you angry. You are the Vanguard, you should charge in alone, this anger helps focus you and clear the headache bought on by your concussion.

Kombat!: (Keegra vs Orc 1. Keegra gets 11 (9 + 3Dam - 1Inj) vs Orc 1 gets 25 (16 + 6 + 3Arm), Keegra loses 4 Health. Keegra's second attack: Keegra gets 19 (17 + 3Dam - 1Inj) vs Orc 1 gets 25 (16 + 6 + 3Arm), Nothing Happens. Keegra's third attack: Keegra gets 21 (19 + 3Dam - 1Inj) vs Orc 1 gets 25 (16 + 6 + 3Arm), Nothing Happens.) Your first punchlands badly the Orc moves slightly and so instead of his gut, your strike hits longsword, cutting your arm slightly. The sight of your own blood makes you forget tactics and go for 2 wild blows, neither of which seem to faze the Orc.

Xiv'riit: (3) as badly wounded as you are, there is no way you can do anything but back up and take a breather, angry at the Orc and whichever divine force put you in its path in the first place.

Kali: (11) Your mantra as you look through the weapon racks seems to be twisted by magic itself as you feel drawn towards one particular sling. Holding it you recognise it as the Deer Shot, a weapon created by a particularly sadistic Halfling Ranger. Every so often instead of the pebble that you load the sling up with, the sling will fire a full size, live, Deer at the target at the same speed the stone would have come out of. Happy with your acquisition you prepare to help your allies in the battle. Gained Deer Shot(+3Dam, Deer Fling)

Yeleni: Surprised at the sudden combat you stand around, unable to move or do anything to help your team mates.

Orc 1: (6) Excited to be in such a large combat you yell something back down the hall before continuing to fight.

Combat: (Orc 1 vs Uriel. Orc 1 gets 2 (2 + 1Dam - 1Cir) vs Uriel gets 14 (7 + 5 + 2Arm) Orc 1 loses 4 Health) In his (futile) attempt to get at the Shardmind he had attacked rather than the one who was now in his way, Orc 1 decide to put his head down and charge. That was his first mistake. Unlike the Shardmind he originally attack, this one was made of crystal and so a headfirst charge alongside a waving sword, doesn't work that well against it, in fact it is highly likely the Orc suffered some kind of damage at least to his skull (good thing he is from now on enthralled to follow someone else's orders, huh?). In the midst of this the Orc also manage to drop his sword on the floor. Leaving it for anyone to pick up.

Characters:

Virro: Weapons - , Armour - , Other - (+1 Cir when guarding a door or doorway), Orc Bodyguard (You control what your Orc Bodyguard does each round), Health 26/26

Evard: Weapons - Dagger(+2), Dagger(+1), Armour - Studded Leather Armour(+4, Invisibility), Other - Invisibility (Can turn invisible for one round (counts as a passive action), Cannot be noticed or attacked by enemies whilst invisible, +1 Circumstance when attacking whilst invisible. Invisibility can be activated once every 4 Rounds (Rounds Remaining 4)). Health 23/23

Uriel: Weapons - Mace(+1), Armour - , Other - Tea, Health 29/29

Keegra: Weapons - , Armour - , Other - Concussion (-1 Injury, 1 round remaining), Health 18/22

Xiv'riit: Weapons – Spork(+3), Armour - , Other - , Health 10/28

Kali: Weapons - Deer Shot(+3, Deer Fling), Armour - Leather Armour(+1), Other - Deer Fling (Once per room, you may fling a Deer instead of a stone at an enemy. This does +1D8 damage, and the difference between the offence and defence scores (either way) is taken as damage by the Deer. If it survives this it stays around as a permanent companion following your orders), Health 12/12

Yeleni: Weapons - Quarterstaff(+2), Armour - , Other - , Health 26/26

Orc Bodyguard: Weapons - , Armour - Studded Leather Armour(+3), Other- , Health 13/26

On Floor: Longsword (+1)

"Another group of 'adventurers' have arrived." The figure that spoke was crouched over a divining pool. watching as it showed the room the party were in. Their figure was hidden by a long hooded robe. "They seem less experienced than the previous ones who came. Shall I release the gas my lord?"

"No, child. Let them come. Although I doubt they will do little more than expand our army of undead, it is still refreshing to see some more morsels come to the challenge."

"Very well, my lord. Is that why you removed their equipment?"

"Yes, my child. They would of been no challenge with the rubbish they had. At the very least now we can enjoy a challenging hunt. Is the pool set up to see each of the rooms?"

"Yes my lord."

"Good."

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Virro: (3) You look around for some kind of ranged weapon on the weapon racks. Noticing a few bows you can't quite make up your mind which one you want.

Evard: (11) You find a fine piece of Studded Leather Armour, specifically made for Tako's. You put it on and feel the magic wash over you as you do so. Looking down, you realise you have briefly become invisible, a real boon for a Rogue like you. Gained Studded Leather Armour(+4, Invisibility)

Uriel: (6) Noticing that Evard has picked up the only 2 daggers from the wall, and seeing as you are currently unable to see the Tako to ask if you can borrow one, you instead decide to pick up a small mace that catches your eye. Turning back to your teapot, before you can do anything you notice a droplet of liquid falling from the ceiling and landing in the spout of the teapot, sliding down and mixing with the tea itself. Rushing over you open the lid but cannot smell or see anything wrong with the tea. Gained Mace(+1), Tea

Keegra: (2) Heading over to the Eastern door you trip up and smack your head against the door, even with your thick skull it hurts and the door doesn't come away fine either, not only is it forced open it also has a hole in it where your head hit it. (-1 Injury, 1 round remaining). Unfortunately the noise of your crash seems to reverberate through the dungeon, and the door at the other end of the corridor opens. Out steps an Orc... Gained Concussion (-1 Injury, 1 round remaining)

Xiv'riit: (8) Guarding the Southern doorway, you hear Keegra trip over, and decide to check if she is OK. Moving to the Eastern doorway you Notice she has banged her head and is slowly getting up off the floor. You notice the Orc at the other end of the corridor and step in front of where Keegra is stand, bravely brandishing your Spork and preparing to see what the Orc will do.

Kali: (6) Despite your searching, you can only find one piece of armour than you can wear that is both light for you to use, and small enough for a Halfling. It looks a bit old and as if it's been in a few fights, but it'll still help protect you, and that's what matter, right? Gained Leather Armour(+1)

Yeleni: (5) Searching rather randomly, as if you're not quite sure what you are looking for, you come across a nice Quarterstaff. Pleased with your find, you notice the Orc at the end of the Eastern corridor and wonder if you're going to put your new weapon to use soon. Gained Quarterstaff(+2)

Orc 1: (11 - 1Cir = 10) Noticing the adventurers at the other end of the corridor, Orc 1 grunts something in his native language before charging towards the fallen Keegra. Thankfully Xiv'riit gets in the way before Orc 1 can take on the fallen and concussed Half-Orc

Combat!: (Orc 1 vs Xiv'riit. Orc 1 gets 21 (20 + 1 Damage) vs Xiv'riit gets 7 (2 + 5) Xiv'riit loses 14 Health. As a natural 20, Orc 1 gets a second attack, 11 vs 7, Xiv'riit loses a further 4 Health.) Many elves and dwarves know how lethal an Orc charge can be, having fought against the barbarians dozens of times in the past. This Orc must either be a veteran of one of those charges, or have been taught exactly how to charge as he smashes into Xivriit, managing to get two attacks off against the Shardmind as it can barely move in terror. The Orc's Longsword gouges a large wound in the Shardmind's side, before the second hit smashes into the Shardmind's shield arm. Things do not look good for the Shardmind, and the Orc knows it.

Characters:

Virro: Weapons - , Armour - , Other - (+1 Cir when guarding a door or doorway), Health 26/26

Evard: Weapons - Dagger(+2), Dagger(+1), Armour - Studded Leather Armour(+4, Invisibility), Other - Invisibility (Can turn invisible for one round (counts as a passive action), Cannot be noticed or attacked by enemies whilst invisible, +1 Circumstance when attacking whilst invisible. Invisibility can be activated once every 4 Rounds (Rounds Remaining 4)). Health 23/23

Uriel: Weapons - Gained Mace(+1), Armour - , Other - Tea, Health 29/29

Keegra: Weapons - , Armour - , Other - Concussion (-1 Injury, 1 round remaining), Health 22/22

Xiv'riit: Weapons – Spork(+3), Armour - , Other - , Health 10/28

Kali: Weapons - , Armour - Leather Armour(+1), Other - , Health 12/12

Yeleni: Weapons - Quarterstaff(+2), Armour - , Other - , Health 26/26

Orc 1: Weapons - Longsword(+1), Armour - Studded Leather Armour(+3), Other- , Health 26/26

Virro Deverin: (10) You are an excellent door guard. None have stood as vigiliant as you in an age, watching the door in case any evil would dare to walk through. Thankfully none does, and as the time passes you get the feeling that perhaps, none will. After all this is less off an action and more a reaction is it not? Still with your newfound expertise you think you may be even more valuable to the party than before (+1 Cir when guarding a door or doorway).

Evard Black (6) Looking at all the weapons you are almost sad when you realize that you can only see two daggers on the wall. Regardless you pick them up, testing their weight, you are happy with them, but you wonder if you should pick up some armour, or at the very least something to hold the daggers in. (Gained Dagger +2, Dagger +1).

Uriel Seraphim: (8) You set up your tea set expertly, making sure everything is perfectly in place for a nice reinvigorating brew. As the water boils you search the room high and low to see if it has any secrets. Unfortunately for you, this room does not. Still, as they say "a watched pot never boils." And you certainly want yours to boil so you can have some tea.

Keegra Bloodfist: (8) Some of the pieces of armour you recognise, others you don't. The ones you do are made by world-renowned smiths of all races, whoever collected these pieces for you to use certainly didn't discriminate against race when they were picking them. The armour ranges from well made pieces of plate armour, all the way to what looks like normal pieces of clothing, and almost everything in between. Your gut instinct also tells you that not only is not one piece of this armour cursed or meant to harm the party in any way, it is almost as if someone wants the party to have this armour. You assume the same can be said of the weaponry.

Xiv'riit: (9) Looking over the racks of weapons you spot one that looks perfect for you. Reaching up to grab it, you lift it down and look at your wondrous new weapon. It is only as you look at it you see the stylized R engraved into the hilt. This must be the legendary Spork of Rogmarys, the ancient Dwarven hero who was said to be able to beat entire armies by himself, and when the battle was done would sit down, and with this Spork eat an entire pig by himself. What is that you say? It must be hard to eat an entire pig with just a Spork? Well, you my friend obviously did not know Rogmarys. (Gained Spork(+3))

Kali Bunga: (10) Seeing Uriel check the room you are in to no avail, you decide to see if you can use your tracking skill to determine what lays beyond the eastern door. Turning your attention that way you use your highly honed senses to almost completely map the place out. It is an empty corridor, and just like on the map it only has two exits, one at the end of the corridor, and one halfway down on the right. You think you hear voices from behind one of the doors, but you are not sure if you are correct, what language they are speaking in, or which door they come from.

Yeleni: (4) Distracted and disappointed by the fact that nothing happens to either the Half-Orc, the Tako or one of the other Shardminds you assume that both the weapons and the armour are safe to touch. Beyond that you watch the tea set in the middle of the room, wondering why one of your companions has decided to make tea now, of all times.

Characters:

Virro: Weapons - Armour - Other - (+1 Cir when guarding a door or doorway)

Evard: Weapons - Dagger(+2), Dagger(+1) Armour - Other -

Uriel: Weapons - Armour - Other -

Keegra: Weapons - Armour - Other -

Xiv'riit: Weapons – Spork(+3) Armour - Other -

Kali: Weapons - Armour - Other -

Yeleni: Weapons - Armour - Other -

((Please post your posts with your action in them in direct response to this post please.))

"You are a group of fresh-faced adventurers, believing you can take on anyone, or anything. You have heard tale of the great Dragon Paarnax and his hoard, hidden amidst the treacherous caverns of the Bore-Hole. Wanting to prove yourselves as true adventurers you have grouped up and set off to kill this dragon and claim his hoard for yourselves. You have heard tales of how large the hoard Paarnax has that it can no longer be contained within his lair alone. Instead he has spread it through out the Bore-Hole, protected by a legion of monsters that swear fealty to the Dragon himself. You have also heard tale of how adventurers before you have fallen not just to this legion of monsters but also to the very caverns themselves, with various chambers seemingly created specifically to trap and kill any who wander into them. Undaunted you have set out, not knowing what you will face but determined you will make it to the bottom and kill the great Dragon Paarnax...

Entering the first chamber, you see a sight that surprises you. Against and on the north wall stands rows upon rows of armour stands and weapon racks, holding almost every type of armour and weapon imaginable. Hearing a slam you notice that the hole in the West Wall that you used as an entrance has now slammed shut, trapping you in the Bore-Hole until you defeat Paarnax, or die trying. Looking down, you see that you have mysteriously been stripped of all your weapons and armour you had before you entered this room. There are two other ways to exit the room, one is the passage way to the South, which you see ends at a door and also has an indentation halfway down on the left, which you assume is another doorway. There is also a door in the Eastern wall that no doubt leads to a passageway beyond.

It is, perhaps, the lone picture frame on the Southern wall that intrigues you the most, and indeed most of you crowd around it. In the picture frame there is a map, supposedly showing the entire dungeon. The room you are in is labeled the 'Starting Room' and there is another chamber in the North-East corner of the map titled 'Paarnax's Lair' your ultimate destination perhaps. Taking a look at the map some of you recognize two of the rooms which are meant to hold treasure, although it is strange that your sources, reliable ones at that, told you that Paarnax had split his hoard into seven pieces, yet including his lair, only three of those places appeared on the map.

It is, of no worry, for surely you will succeed and defeat Paarnax. After all, What Are The Chances Of This Happening Again?"

Map: https://s11.postimg.org/lujjtqkub/SWATCOTHA_Public_Map.png ((Will make it an actual image instead of a link once I work out how to do it))

You may now take your first round of actions. Remember you can also talk, set up parties, find allies and friends or whatever. Just make it clear what your action is for this (and each) round.

The App:

(Note that nothing besides Race, Class and Health are necessary, but they are nice to have)

Name:

Gender:

Race: - (Power 1) - (Power 2)

Class: - (Power 1)

Health:

Anything Else: (Completely optional)

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Example App:

Name: Fely Hefelt

Gender: Male

Race: Elf - Arcane Archer - Beast-master

Class: Hunter - Bowman

Health: 7 (1+6)

Anything Else: Likes Anagrams

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Example Combat Situation

Fely is in a room (shock, horror!) with an Orc named Bob. Fely being the Elf he is, is equipped with a Longbow(+2), 30 arrows and some Studded Leather Armour(Light, +2). Bob meanwhile has a nice Club(+1). Fely, being the PC in this case, makes the first move by firing an arrow at Bob. Fely rolls a 10 on his D20 to attack, he gets +3 Damage for being a Bowman, and +2 Damage from his Longbow, meaning he has an Attack Roll of 15. Bob rolls a 14 on his D20 to defend, and as an Orc has +6 Natural Armour, this means Bob's Defence Roll is 20. As Fely's roll is greater than half Bob's Defence roll (but not greater than Bob's Defence Roll) nothing happens. Bob now decides to charge towards Fely, rolls an 8 on 2D6 and so succeeds, and surprises Fely with his turn of agility (-1 Cir for Fely's next attack). The attack continues...

Example Exploration Situation

Fely has now defeated Bob and decides to loot the room. He automatically get's Bob's Club(+1) and then rolls a 6 on the exploration table. Fely finds some semi-decent food Bob was looking forward to, but that's about it.

If you have any questions, reply to this post with them and I'll try to answer them as quickly as possible.

Now, for the general running of this RP. This RP will work in 'Rounds', these Rounds will generally last 24 hours (although if everyone has posted before then I'll move the Round on in advance). Each Round you are required to leave at least 1 Reply in the relevant area stating your action for this Round, talking and generally interacting with other PC's and Friendly NPC's is a free action, you don't need to state you're doing it, just do it (and who knows they may respond in kind).

If you are exploring, or looking for treasure tell me what you are looking for, so I can then (hopefully) give it to you if the Dice Gods allow it. Most enemies will drop loot and I will let you know what they've dropped when they die/are erased from existence.

Don't come to this if you expect it to be really serious a) we're the PPC, b) this is me. It's going to be slightly wacky and not very serious. The Fourth Wall may be broken a couple of times and various references to various games/stuff may be included. You have been warned.

If you've managed to get this far down, well done (doubly so if you've read all the other beginning posts). Now, onto some actually game-y bits. This will probably be repeated when I start the first Round, but listen to the tale. Your tale...

"You are a group of fresh-faced adventurers, believing you can take on anyone, or anything. You have heard tale of the great Dragon Paarnax and his hoard, hidden amidst the treacherous caverns of the Bore-Hole. Wanting to prove yourselves as true adventurers you have grouped up and set off to kill this dragon and claim his hoard for yourselves. You have heard tales of how large the hoard Paarnax has that it can no longer be contained within his lair alone. Instead he has spread it through out the Bore-Hole, protected by a legion of monsters that swear fealty to the Dragon himself. You have also heard tale of how adventurers before you have fallen not just to this legion of monsters but also to the very caverns themselves, with various chambers seemingly created specifically to trap and kill any who wander into them. Undaunted you have set out, not knowing what you will face but determined you will make it to the bottom and kill the great Dragon Paarnax..."

Please Note: For the majority of things I (The DM/OP/whatever you want to call me) will be doing the rolling. Some things (like Health) you can do the rolling for. Please be honest when you say what you have rolled, I will be and I will try and make sure I'm at least on Discord, if not in a voice channel when I'm doing it.

Modifiers

Cir or Circumstance is when the circumstances the character is in have either a positive or negative affect on what they're trying to do (you can't fight effectively if you're dangling over a pit and holding on with one hand for example). It can also be used as a catch-all modifier for anything that could arise in the RP, if trying to do the impossible, expect a large negative circumstance modifier. A few Circumstance modifiers are permanent whilst the majority will be active for a set number of turns, or until something else happens (in the example above the circumstance negative modifier persists until the character either falls in the pit (they're then not fighting) or until they get out of the pit (no longer dangling over the edge)).

Inj or Injury. Only a negative modifier, Injuries happen in the same kind of way they do IRL. Injuries will wear off after a while to mimic your characters either healing or just getting used to the pain. They can also be healed by certain items, Clerics and potentially by friendly NPC's. Injuries also cover poisons and the like.

Arm or Armour. How much protection you are wearing. There are four types of armour in the RP, Clothing which can naturally confer a +1 bonus max. Light Armour which can naturally confer a +3 bonus max. Mail Armour can naturally confer a +5 bonus max. Heavy Armour can naturally confer a +7 bonus max and Plate Armour can naturally confer a +9 bonus max. Although Class and Race powers can improve these bonuses above their normal maximum. If you pick two different class powers through the use of the Natural Class Race power, then the lowest armour type is the one you are able to equip. Shields will also give an Armour bonus, and can be wielded by any class, although if you have a Shield you can't wield a two handed weapon.

Dam or Damage. The amount of bonus damage you do with a weapon, all weapons will have a set damage bonus they will give you which can then be increased or decreased by your characters powers, and any enchanting or improving of the weapons you may do. Shields can also turn their armor bonus into a damage bonus if you try bash with them. Weapons are either one handed or two handed (you will be told which).

Dice Rolls

Combat

In combat a D20 will be rolled for each character fighting, both PC and NPC. Every PC has a base 'Armour' of 5 (meaning that the dice roll, plus modifiers must be at least 5 to hit), some NPC's will have a higher base Armour, and a couple may have lower. This base armour is then modified by the characters armour score and any circumstance or injury modifiers that may effect the characters defence. The overall armour is then compared against the dice roll which will have also taken into account Damage, Circumstance and Injury modifiers, which forms the overall attack. If the attack is greater than the armour, then the character loses HP equal to the difference, if the attack is equal to, or more than half the armour score, then nothing happens, if the attack score is less than half the armour score, the attacking character's weapon will break (if they are wielding one) or they will either suffer Injury of some kind, or lose HP otherwise. If the attack is over double the armour score, then either a piece of the defending characters armour, or if they have no armour on (or nothing that gives an armour bonus on), the character will suffer another hit at half the original attack score. A Natural 1 will always fail to do damage, and a natural 20 will always do damage AND be treated as if the attack was double the armour score. Fractions will always be rounded UP.

Exploring covers every scenario which is not combat. In this case 2D6 are rolled, then modifiers are added, with the following being the results:

1 or less: Epic failure of Epicness: You fail, so badly in fact that I'm wincing just thinking about it.

2:Epic failure: you fail, badly. Like really badly, so badly in fact I'm surprised you got to here without an accident

3/4:Failure; It didn't work out for you, in fact it didn't do anything.

5/6:Success (barely): Didn't exactly do what you wanted it to, but no bad side effects.

7:Success: Wow it actually worked out for you, did exactly what you wanted it to. no extra's but no bad points either.

8/9:Good Success: It worked slightly better than you thought, and no side effects that may harm you, isn't it just brilliant?

10/11:Brilliant Success: It worked a lot better than you thought it would, perhaps the Gods are smiling on you today.

12 or more:Godly Success: It worked so well it may of worked too well. now that's a problem.

Health.

Every Character has health, the amount depends on your Race. When you reach 0 health, that's it you die, if you do die you are allowed to re-enter with a new character who will be dropped off at the point where your last character died. Necromancers will be allowed to raise any dead PC's and they will re-roll the dice to see how much health they come back with. Do not fear though, for there will be plenty of chances for you to recover health along the way, as well as the fact that some of your fellow party members may be able to heal you. If you are a Thir-Kreen, Elf or Halfling you will start with 1D20 +6 Health, if you are a Tako, Dwarf or Centaur you will start with 1D20 +8 Health, If you are a Shardmind, Half-Orc or Lizardman you will start with 1D20 +10 Health. NPC's will have between D6 and D100 health dependent on their race and when you meet them. (an example of a D100 NPC would be a Dragon, whilst a D6 NPC would be a Wolf).

Races

Lizardmen

Dry Skin: Any Liquid heals you either by D6 (if not harmful) or by however much it was meant to damage you by (if it was harmful). Anything Fire or Heat related does double damage.

Tough Scales: +2 armour at all times.

Natural Hunter: If you are not a Hunter, pick one of the Hunter's abilities and take it, if you are a Hunter you get both abilities.

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Dwarf

Smith Folk: Can take a turn to Improve a weapon or piece of armour, adding +1 Circumstance onto it. One use per weapon or piece of armour.

Bane of Goblins: Do +2 Damage to all types of Goblins and Orcs, cannot talk with any type of Goblin or Orc, must battle with them.

Natural Fighter: If you are not a Fighter, pick one of the Fighter's abilities and take it, if you are a Fighter you get both abilities.

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Elf

Arcane Archer: Can enchant any ranged weapon to fire magical projectiles. 1 turn to enchant weapon, unlimited uses thereafter. Weapons enchanted by an Arcane Archer can only be used by an Elf and/or a Wizard, Sorcerer or Hedge-Mage and give +3 Damage and no longer need ammunition to fire.

Beast-master: +2 Damage against all animals and beasts, can talk to (and thus try to control) animals and beasts in the same room. Talking to animals takes up a turn.

Natural Wizard: If you are not a Wizard, pick one of the Wizard's abilities and take it, if you are a Wizard you get both abilities.

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Halfling

Tracker: Can take a turn to try and determine what is in the next room, if successful gain +1 Circumstances in all actions against whatever is in the next room

Sling-man: +2 Damage when using a sling as a ranged weapon, can also use a sling as a melee weapon for +1 Damage. Slings have unlimited ammo. If the target of a Sling-man is not focused on the Sling-man, +1 Circumstance

Natural Thief: If you are not a Thief, pick one of the Thief's abilities and take it, if you are a Thief you get both abilities.

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Half-Orc

Bezerker Rage: +2 Damage on first 3 rounds of combat, no negative modifiers for injury during those 3 rounds, can't do anything for the next round afterwards though.

Tough Hide: +1 Armour at all times, injuries heal twice as fast.

Natural Barbarian: If you are not a Barbarian, pick one of the Barbarian's abilities and take it, if you are a Barbarian you get both abilities.

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Centaur

Charger: Can Charge into combat, +1 Damage in first round of combat, becomes +2 if you have a lance or a spear (in addition to the damage of lance or spear). can't stop a Charge, so if the enemy dodges you (or dies before you get there) you can either potentially hit either a friendly NPC (or even another character) and do the full amount of damage to them, or you hit a solid object (eg a wall) and you take a hit of 4 Damage (before modifiers).

Healer: May attempt to heal another character, creature or NPC, roll 1D6, on a 1 creature loses 3 HP, on a 2 creature loses 1 HP, on a 3 it does nothing, on a 4 creature gains 1 HP on a 5 creature gains 3 HP and on a 6 creature gains 5 HP, effect is opposite for undead, cannot heal above max health.

Natural Hedge-Mage: If you are not a Hedge Mage, pick one of the Hedge Mage's abilities and take it, if you are a Hedge Mage you get both abilities.

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Tako

Many-Handed: Counts as having three hands when it comes to wielding weapons and shields.

Tentacle Tangle: Humanoid enemies have -1 Cir when attacking in melee

Expendable Limbs: +2 Cir when disarming enemy traps or making your own. May take the Trapmaster class characteristic, regardless of class.

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Shardmind

Being Of Willpower: +1 Cir when outnumbered. +3 Cir if outnumbered by more than five.

Being Of Crystal: Takes no damage from poison. +2 Armour against sharp weapons, -1 Armour against blunt weapons.

Natural Psion: If you are not a Psion, pick one of the Psion's abilities and take it. If you are a Psion, you get both abilities.

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Thri-Kreen

Chitinous Exoskeleton: +1 armour at all times, The heavier the armour, the quicker Injuries heal.

Rending Claws: +1 Damage and -1 to your enemies Armour when unarmed.

Natural Monk: If you are not a Monk, pick one of the Monk's abilities and take it. If you are a Monk, you get both abilities.

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Classes

Fighter

Weapons Master: Name one specific type of weapon (one handed axe, short sword etc.), gain +2 Damage when using that type of weapon, -1 Damage when using any other type of weapon.

Dual-Wielder: +1 Damage when Dual wielding, cannot Plate armour.

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Barbarian

Woad Warrior: +1 Circumstance in the first round of every combat, enemy has -1 Circumstance when trying to hit you. However you can't wear Light armour or better.

Vanguard: +2 Damage if first person into combat, goes down to +1 Damage if another person enters the combat alongside you. Cannot voluntarily leave a battle. Cannot wear Heavy armour or better.

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Knight

Shield wall: +1 Armour for each other player in combat in the room.

Man of Honour: +1 Circumstance when speaking to any female -1 Circumstance when fighting any female. (Swaps genders for females).

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Hunter

Bowman: +3 Damage with ranged weaponry, -1 Damage with melee weaponry, cannot wear Mail armour or better.

Trapmaster: Can try and make traps to kill your enemy with, most will be deadly if made correctly. (Requires a roll, type of trap depends on what materials are around/on you, traps can blow up in your face however, either in the making of them or the setting of them) Setting traps takes an extra turn, but they can be made whenever you wish. Other Players CAN set off traps, even if aware of them (likewise if enemies are aware of them they may be able to avoid them) -1 Damage with all weapons. Cannot wear Mail armour or better.

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Thief

Stealer of Things: +2 Circumstance when scavenging or looking for things -1 Damage with all weapons. Cannot wear Mail armour or better.

Stealer of People: +2 Circumstance when talking, can enthrall people to fight for you (a failed enthrallment could turn them against you, enthralling takes a turn) -1 Damage with all weapons. Cannot wear Heavy armour or better.

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Rogue

Thug: +1 Damage on all weapons, -2 Circumstance when talking. Cannot wear Heavy armour or better.

Backstabber: +2 Damage on daggers, +2 Circumstance when attacking an enemy (or player) who is focused on something else. -1 Circumstance if attacking an enemy focused on them. Cannot wear Mail armour or better.

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Hedge Mage

Cleric: Can heal any injuries on any person in the same room as them. Takes a turn, -2 Circumstance on all combat rolls on turn you heal someone. +2 Circumstance if facing any type of undead. Can use Magic Items. Cannot wear Plate armour

Druid: Can control all natural things (although that does not mean they are initially friendly towards the Druid) takes a turn to try and gain control, but thereafter can use natural thing as needed. Can use Magic Items. Cannot wear Heavy armour or better.

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Wizard

Enchanter: can 'enchant' add +1 Circumstance to any weapon or armour once per turn (takes the turn) can do this with any weapon or piece of armour in the room. Enchanting lasts for 5 turns. Can use Magical Items. Cannot wear Mail armour or better.

Necromancer: Can revive dead enemies (or players) as thralls (the larger/tougher the enemy (or player) the tougher it is to revive and control). Can try to control undead enemies -1 Circumstance if the enemy/thrall you're trying to control wasn't created/revived by you. Using this takes a turn. Cannot wear Light armour or better, Can use Magical Items.

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Sorcerer

Fire Mage: Can control/create Fire. As with all things the more Fire the mage tries to create/control the harder it will be to a) create and then b) control. Doing this take a turn. Cannot wear Light armour or better, Can use Magical Items.

Water Mage: Can control/create Water and Ice. As with all things the more Water/Ice the mage tries to create/control the harder it will be to a) create and then b) control. Doing this take a turn. Cannot wear Light armour or better, Can use Magical Items.

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Psion

Fate Seer: -1 Cir for all enemies in the same room as you, unless they are in combat. +1 Cir for allies in combat in the same room as you. Cannot wear Light armour or better. Can use Magical Items.

Eldritch Presence: +1 Damage for each allied magic user in the room, +2 Cir whenever a magic user/Elf is trying to use their abilities in the same room as you. (Magic Users are Hedge Mages, Wizards, Sorcerors and Shamans, only the Arcane Archer Elven ability is affected) Cannot wear Light Armour or better. Can use Magical Items.

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Brawler

Slugger: +2 Cir when fighting unarmed. +1 additional Damage while unarmed for each point of Armour you have, ignoring shields. Cannot wear Mail armour or better

Dirty Fighter: Enemies have -2 Cir when in melee range of you. Do 1D6 extra damage when entering combat if your target was fighting someone else in the previous round. Cannot wear Heavy armour or better.

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Monk

Martial Artist: Gives 1 extra unarmed attack per round (if the character is unarmed) and all unarmed attacks do +2 Damage. Cannot wear Light armour or better.

Ninja: Gives enemies -1 Cir when attacking at range, and +2 Damage on Thrown Weapons. Cannot wear Mail armour or better.

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Shaman

Witch Doctor: Enemies in the same room have -2 Cir when attempting to use Magic Items and/or spells. Cannot wear Heavy armour or better. Can use Magical Items.

Spirit Guide: Allies, including yourself, in the same room gain +1 Cir and +2 Armour if they are holding a Magic Item. Cannot wear Mail armour or better. Can use Magical Items.

Questions are again open to my two planned agents, Officer Larkus Grun of the CSF and former Adventurer's Guild Journeyman Turff-Croft, a.k.a. Curff.

Currently accepting questions for Agents Chris, Ami Seeker, Miguel Correa, and Violet Rose Greenfield. And Miki the anthro Pomeranian (rescued in "For the Sake of All Living Things"), because I don't know what to do with him yet and he needs more screentime.

• Alleb
• Jesse
• Mia
• Michael

((-Alleb))

Response Center 64, DMS

Laura Dukes and James Pittman

Response Center 555, DBS

Gremlin and Xericka

Department of Personnel Mail Office

Danny Richardson

You can now ask any questions to RC 88888888's [Agent name here], which, yes, is her actual name. I assume you're gonna have a lot of questions about how she's going to run the PPC after taking it over in my last mission!

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Oh hey, this is a thing that is happening! Have at it. {= )

RC 999, DIC
- Agent Supernumerary
- Agent Ilraen-Aroline-Fothergill

RC 1110, DMS
- Agent Derik
- Agent Gall Knutson

FicPsych
- Nurse Jennifer Robinson
-- Her son, Henry Robinson
- Nurse Mirrad
- Nurse Elms
- Nurse Castor Parwill
- Nurse Loquacious Immac
- Intern Alex Bjørnsen

~Neshomeh

• Marvin Jones

• Printworthy

• Jumper

Do be aware, I am working today, so it may be a while before I respond. I will answer everything, though. Promise. Especially questions to the character Jumper.

Any questions to:

• William Grey
• Venus "VJ" Jones
• Lena "Hop" Swift
• Rosa "Hip" Vale

AND

• Matt Kennel
• Alejandra "Alex" Barragan

please be listed here! :D

Taking questions for:
-RC log e, Agents Desdendelle and Lump the Librarian.
-RC 3³, Agents Navare and Amris.

Open and taking questions for anyone you can think of. That probably includes:

Kozar

The Reader

Dawn McKenna

Jacques Bonnefoy

T'Zar

The Sato children? (Ruby, Seren, and Owain). They haven't shown up too much, and they're technically still tiny, but their Ten Years Hence selves could answer!

Anyone else you can think of. I do have other agents/characters, but I think these are the most recently active. Apart from Naergondir showing up in a Discord RP, of course...

Anyway. Questions are open!

~DF

PS: Granz, kudos on the intro :D I've read a lot on Das Sporking, and the counts here amused me a lot.

Contact my panoply of agents here:-

The Notary

Wobbles The Clown

Lola McCandless

Algernon, 7th Earl Wymbourne

Doktor Trollenfisch

Gabrielle

NB: ANYONE TRYING TO GET THE NOTARY AND LOLA TO INTERACT WILL BE SHUT DOWN HARD. Sorry for the all-caps, but it's happened pretty much every time I've done this and it gets right on my wick.

Taking questions for Richard Legard and Marina Nicodelli.

'Dude, uh, is that, um, necessary?' Maz asked.

'You'd be surprised, boss,' Yocherry replied, flicking a series of switches across the side of the weapon. He held some kind of slide-mechanism along its barrel, and pulled it. It ran down with harsh clacking noises, and the gun purred to life with an electric hum.

'Don't got the grenades this time. Sorry, boss.'

'Grenades?' Maz said, feeling slightly left out of the loop.

Yocherry shook his head mournfully.

'None.'

He punched a button on his console. His grip on the gun tightened.

'Let's see what we got, boss.'

• Maz and Yocherry are (arguably) up for questions! Let's hope we don't break them. That includes the console, by the way.

Hello! I've heard everyone's taking questions, so I thought I'd do my best to answer a few of them. Dee refuses to touch the thing, so I thought I'd answer any questions you guys might have. And yes, Dee, I know you're reading over my shoulder. Well, you don't have to participate, if that's how you feel about it. Dee, just shut up and let me type. Thank you.

Right, so. . . Questions for the Detective and Jack Riggs?