"Screw that! they died we didn't continue where we left off and stop the whole *Batman voice* REVENGENCE kick" Chelsea started complaining the second everyone sat down.
"actually I agree just lighten the difficulty a little maybe?" Victoria just had to throw in her two cents. Tom sighs and looks at Mike and Larry both of which just shrug their shoulders. "Fine but you should probably try and wake up the mage and get to a temple.." Tom gets his screen back in place and starts the game back up changing a few 'minor' details to the story.
Melissa and Malree drag Anya to one of the few places on Liavara where people seem to be halfway coherent and ask them why everyone is asleep. groggily one of the natives reply "this planet is covered in Ley lines making it much easier for people to meditate and fall into a trance allowing them to connect to the higher planes, sadly it's more of a forced meditation on most parts of the planet.. those of us who have little to no magical aptitude tend to be more resilient to the forced 'dreaming' try to wake up the others every now and then just so they can bathe and eat but they usually scream at us so the ones who are nice about the wake up call wear a red necklace that shows they actually appreciate the efforts we go through.. we just let the others stay in their happy little coma, you must have just fell through a portal, so how sure are you your friend won't try to roast us the second she wakes up?"
Victoria is munching on some of her homemade candy so she looks to Chelsea to answer "We're fairly certain she would appreciate the wake up call but if you don't want to risk it just tell us the safest way to wake her". "well the safest way is just pouring water on them any kind of shock will work but usually a light slap or two is necessary.." the local states while looking a little sleepy himself before he smacks his own cheek to wake up.
"we have to sleep in shifts otherwise we won't wake up ourselves so do be careful and here wear these just in case" the local hands Malree three simple red necklaces and walks away to his half asleep comrades. "Can I try waking her up?" Victoria grins from ear to ear while looking at Mari.. "I would much rather Chelsea do it I don't trust you with the smile right now" Mari looks pleadingly to Chelsea "Fine I use create water to splash her awake" Chelsea and Mari roll there die before Tom could even ask, the dice land on 17 and 14 respectively "congrats you woke up the mage and she seems to not hate you" Tom narrates as he gets up to grab a soda from the cooler.
"what will you do now adventurers?"
"let's bring the boys back to life it would be a good idea to have a cleric on a planet where everyone falls asleep, he may have a way to keep us from having to do a saving roll everywhere we go" Mari suggests off the bat and looks at Tom as if she still held a grudge for the 'sleep talk incident' as the three women make their way to the closest temple they had to roll three more saving rolls and luckily manage to stay awake, only to find everyone in the temple is asleep...
"let's wake them up" Victoria grabs her die but Chelsea stops her. "I observe if anyone is wearing a red necklace" makes the perception check roll of 15 "sadly no necklace to be found in site you happen to be in a temple of lazy priests, what's your next move?" Victoria starts looking at her character sheet before coming up with a plan. "What's the head honchos level?" Mari looks at Victoria with caution "why would you ask that?" "oh you know.. just curious and all" Victoria replies innocently. "He is a grand priest on a planet with a heavy concentration of ambient Mana, if you're planning on insta-killing the sleeping guy.. DON'T"
"Geez you make me sound like a maniac.. I was gonna suggest barely waking him up so I could try dominating him while he has negatives on his wisdom check due to the sleepy sleep" Tom cuts in "He's level 8 you would need at least a Nat 18.. I'm only warning you cause failure would not be good for any of you"
"ok me and Malree are going to leave the building so Melissa can give it a shot" "You're gonna abandon me?!?" "Your plan, your consequences" "just roll the dice and I'll tell you how badly you die Vicky" Victoria blows on her die and begins humming as she cups her hands together and shakes for exactly twenty two seconds before giving a sharp snap of her wrist on release bouncing the die against the very edge of the top of Tom's screen.
The screen teeters as the die hits the table.. everyone stares at the results and no one says a word, forcing Tom to look out from behind his screen. Nat 20... "Mother f∆¢ker.. Malree and Anya can hear a rather happy old man laughing inside of the temple as two bright lights descend from the sky, an obvious sign that a resurrection spell has been cast"
Tom looks at Larry and Mike roguishly before he drops a nice little bombshell. "Both of you need to roll constitution checks... your deaths were caused due to and Eldritch God so there will be consequences for low rolls" The dice clattered against the table once again and Mike sighs in relief as Larry sighs in defeat.
"ouch only an 11? hmm since your teeth were the media for your resurrection they dissolved as your body formed, congrats man your characters new name is Lando the toothless -2 on charisma until the next long rest which will be quite painful as your teeth regrow" Larry stares indignantly at Tom before he goes into a little moaning B!t¢hy fit. "Dude I thought you said you were lowering the difficulty.. why did I get such a harsh penalty?"
"Yeah I lowered the difficulty but I still have my job as crypt keeper to make your adventure a challenge, besides I could have gave much harsher penalties so be grateful that you only sound like Herbert the pervert..." Everyone starts laughing as the game continues deep into the night...
I'm wrapping up game night next chapter and hen we get to start the real story, hope you've enjoyed it so far, and if you can't tell I believe the DM only exists to cause the players grief if you care to argue bring it up in the comments, also anyone who has the urge to play D&D but can't find like minded friends should check out mRPG-chat with dice on the play/Apple store you can find some decent games running if your lucky
After the ladies filled the boys in on the situation of the planet. "So Carl can you think of any way to nullify the permanent nap time effect on this planet?" Anya asks in her usual haughty elven-kin are better than everyone else tone.
"Well I don't know knife ears did you think of casting a zone of anti-magic to reduce the flow of magic around yourself?.."
Everyone pauses to look at Mike as if he was made of gold. "What? it's a spell that clerics AND mages share? you telling me the self proclaimed all knowing witch queen Anya forgot about it? we could both cast it in turns to keep our party safe until we finish the summoning".
At this point Chelsea speaks up and causes true despair for the party. "So who knows how to actually summon Yog sothoth?, cause I'm pretty sure his isn't as simple as a Beetlejuice summoning".
Larry turns to Victoria "Well? you know more about this stuff than we do, what's the answer?" Indignantly Victoria responds "Why don't you go read a book and figure it out huh? this is all H.P. Lovecraft so far and I only read a couple short stories... Hell I was surprised when Tom pulled that name out of his @$$".
Mike gets up to grab some candy from Victoria "So he's not real? I mean like not a real mythology right? cause I was starting to wonder if you joined a cult or something".
"Seriously? you know I'm atheist, why would I suddenly start believing in some 'Higher being' now? especially from Lovecraftian lore, no I'm not in a cult genius I was googling crazy authors and found a whole Reddit page on this dude, thought he wrote love stories... while he's not as dark as Poe or marquis de Sade he was a wack a doodle nonetheless, and by the way at least Lovecraft says his 'gods' are aliens from a higher plane of existence".
Tom decides to break up the 'Billionth' religious debate between Mike and Vick by passing the blunt. "Look guys what's my rule down here?" Larry stands up quickly and rolls his dice "I scan the surroundings for enemies here's my perception check" 9 "You see and hear nothing just like us watching you chatter your teeth right now.. also you trip on another pebble just for trying to be a hero"
"As your party travels across the planet protected by the field of anti-magic you come upon a group of people sleeping on the ground in the middle of nowhere wearing strange gray cloaks with what appears to be runic symbols stitched into the hemming around the hood and sleeves."
"As you approach the group of sleeping strangers they begin to stir due to the anti-magic zone preventing them from connecting to the Ley lines, what will you do?"
"I observe the runic markings to see if I can recognize them." Mari says as she takes a hit and passes to Mike. "I'll check as well in case they're religious zealots instead of mages". "both of you need to roll for Wis...".
As the night progressed the party managed to identify the strangers as worshipers of Azathoth who came to this world to ask the great old one questions in his dreams. Upon learning of Yog sothath's anger at this world they gave the party an ancient tome with the summoning rituals of several Eldritch gods and left as quickly as they could telling the adventurers that after they summon Yog they should make their way to Golarion and gave them a key and the location of the portal to lead them there.
The summoning of Yog sothoth was a very strange ritual, involving the precise timing of smashing clocks and hourglasses in specific intervals in a counter clockwise circle. Upon the completion of the ritual all time seemed to stop as the sky ripped open and rainbow colored lightning screeched out from the tear.
An immeasurable mass of writhing wriggling tentacles and one giant eye began to slowly pull itself from the tear laughing in a voice that could instill madness into all that hear it before turning it's gaze upon the party.
"Mortals you have exceeded my expectations in this tasks completion, as a reward I shall give you a small boon of my favor and one day to leave this planet before I release my wrath upon these pathetic irritating fools."
As Yog sothoth finished speaking five streaks of light race from his eye and burns an image of an eye wreathed in tentacles upon the wrists of each party member, each tattoo being a different color than the rest.
"These marks will allow you to slow time to a halt depending on the amount of magic channeled into them, use them with caution mortals for time is not something your kind was built to trifle with."
"Thank you oh great Yog we will take this gift and treat it with great responsibility and reverence and shall leave right away so as not to waste any more of your time". After Victoria made her little speech she laid her hands on the table, looked at Tom and begged "Can we please just say we went to Golarion and call it a night?, I'm beat and you guys promised to help me study for my AP chem test."
"Alright everyone made it safely to Golarion no need for saving rolls blah blah.. game, go ahead and get your books Vicky we're going upstairs since my dad's out of town we can throw some old slasher flicks on the big screen." Tom and Mike start cleaning up while everyone else heads upstairs to get the movies set up.
"Dude so you gonna talk about it?" Mike asks after they finish cleaning and grab the cooler full of soda. Tom smirks knowing Mike is just following the bro code. "Nah I'd rather be dark and broody about it, see if that will get the goth chicks to look at me". "Dude you got till Monday to get the Emo edge going, at least fake a smile otherwise Mari's gonna get all moody, you really wanna deal with that?". They stop at the door and Tom looks Mike dead in the eye "Dad gave me mom's necklace before he left.." "Oh.. you wanna cancel the night? I can fake sick and puke on Victoria's for you". Mike pretends to gag before Tom laughs "Yeah watching you get stabbed to death might cheer me up, Nah man it's all good I just needed to wrap my head around it for a second, let's head in Mrs. Crink's tests are Hell..."
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