Tomb of Xagyg: Solo Dungeon & Dragons Adventure
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Yay! Boss fight! I say diplomasise but stay battle ready, because although it’s brain may have rotted away and might not understand us, this is a game run by Ancient, so you never know when an undead monster will partake in a rap battle.
Is this wretched demi-bee
Half asleep upon my knee
Some freak from a menagerie?
No! It's Eric, the half a bee
Half asleep upon my knee
Some freak from a menagerie?
No! It's Eric, the half a bee
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I don't think it can communicate with us. Shout at Urlik to torch the sucker and charge it alongside him. I hope he likes his undead meat well done. (If not he can smoke the ashes in his pipe.)
Pseudo Stupidity wrote:This Applebees fucking sucks, much like all Applebees. I wanted to go to Femboy Hooters (communism).
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Cold sweat beads Gorman's brow as he charges the figure still rising from the pedestal. Part of him is glad that the creature - he cannot think of it as human - does not draw the sword, the fumbling hands of the dead thing have an aura of cold to them that the dwarf can feel through his plate mail. With a yell, the dwarf smashes his sword into the dry torso, rending the aged finery...but the undead creature claws at him, black fingernails scraping against his plate mail, seeking the warmth of living flesh.
Urlik, bless his green hide, appears behind the critter and shoves the torch against its skull. Ancient silk combusts easily, and the flesh beneath begins to blacken, but some terrible force keeps the figure moving. Gorman hacks at it savagely, frantically, gorge rising at the flesh dripping off the bones, and feeling in his soul that one touch is all it would take to be the end of him...and that touch almost comes several times, though th figure be nearly chopped to pieces.
Only when a lucky strike by Gorman slices off the skull and sends it skittering onto the floor does the corpse shudder and cease to move...and only when Urlik's great green foot smashes down, rendering the skull to grey dust does the burning corpse finally begin to collapse in on itself, the dark force that animated the figure finally leaving for good.
Urlik, bless his green hide, appears behind the critter and shoves the torch against its skull. Ancient silk combusts easily, and the flesh beneath begins to blacken, but some terrible force keeps the figure moving. Gorman hacks at it savagely, frantically, gorge rising at the flesh dripping off the bones, and feeling in his soul that one touch is all it would take to be the end of him...and that touch almost comes several times, though th figure be nearly chopped to pieces.
Only when a lucky strike by Gorman slices off the skull and sends it skittering onto the floor does the corpse shudder and cease to move...and only when Urlik's great green foot smashes down, rendering the skull to grey dust does the burning corpse finally begin to collapse in on itself, the dark force that animated the figure finally leaving for good.
Gorman nods to Urlik and delivers a gruff "thanks". He steals the undead creatures sword first, and strips the remaining undamaged finery from the corpse (along with any jewelry its wearing) if he can convince himself it has any value. Then he peers down the slot of each of the pots, trying to examine what they contain. If there are no obvious traps in the stonework around them, he'll loot them from most to least valuable.
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There are no jewels or ornaments on the corpse of the wight, and the silk is no more than burnt ruins. But the sword lays where the corpse had dropped it in its scabbard.
The urn with a slot contains 1,000 silver pieces [+100 XP]
The urn with a cross-shaped slot contains 2,000 gold pieces [+2,000 XP]
The urn with a triangle-slot contains 4 gems, three the size of your fingernail (100 gp each) and one the size of your thumb (500 gp) [+800 XP]
Gorman has obtained sufficient experience to go up a level, and is now a Warrior.
The urn with a slot contains 1,000 silver pieces [+100 XP]
The urn with a cross-shaped slot contains 2,000 gold pieces [+2,000 XP]
The urn with a triangle-slot contains 4 gems, three the size of your fingernail (100 gp each) and one the size of your thumb (500 gp) [+800 XP]
Gorman has obtained sufficient experience to go up a level, and is now a Warrior.
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We didn't get a wrap battle...
Ah. We did go through a lot of trouble to get that sword, so we HAVE to take it. Also, is there an end-goal to the adventure, or is it just "acquire as much wealth as dwemerly possible?"
Ah. We did go through a lot of trouble to get that sword, so we HAVE to take it. Also, is there an end-goal to the adventure, or is it just "acquire as much wealth as dwemerly possible?"
Is this wretched demi-bee
Half asleep upon my knee
Some freak from a menagerie?
No! It's Eric, the half a bee
Half asleep upon my knee
Some freak from a menagerie?
No! It's Eric, the half a bee
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It was a wight. If Gorman wasn't wearing plate armor, he would be dead and the next hero in the conga line of death would be facing two wights.Shrapnel wrote:We didn't get a wrap battle...
I can keep rolling until we run out of dungeon or interest.Ah. We did go through a lot of trouble to get that sword, so we HAVE to take it. Also, is there an end-goal to the adventure, or is it just "acquire as much wealth as dwemerly possible?"
With 3000 gold, we can make level 3 and retire as a merchant But we could maybe get that by selling our plate armor when we give up adventuring.
I guess if there's no real progression (save perhaps leaving a stash of treasure with the potions and scrolls by the dungeon entrance, for the adventurer that follows us), then this could get stale pretty fast. Maybe we should just count ourselves lucky to have done as well as we have, ending the threat of a spawn-producing undead and rescuing a captive troll.
I guess if there's no real progression (save perhaps leaving a stash of treasure with the potions and scrolls by the dungeon entrance, for the adventurer that follows us), then this could get stale pretty fast. Maybe we should just count ourselves lucky to have done as well as we have, ending the threat of a spawn-producing undead and rescuing a captive troll.
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The urn contains 1,000 sp and 1 gp (+101XP)
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