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RTD: Masters of Evil ! Quest to World Domination!

@DraconiWarlord 2 - Failure
you go to pick up the corpse but buckle under it's weight, unable to lift so much as a single digit of a paw. This creature is huge, and the carcass will be a problem to dispose.

@Gentlemanvaultboy 3 - Mixed Success
You recall the location of one of the emergency buttons, removing a castle brick to find a strange magical lock mixed with wires and sparking electricity. A pad of lighting up buttons flicker to the tune of an unheard beat. Blast, what was that password again? Top-left top right center center bottom right left? Top middle top middle bottom middle bottom middle left right left right center center? Ho humm, you remember they talked about this alot at Black Castle orientation day, but that was so long ago...

@RainyHigh 1 - Catastrophic Failure O.O
You attempt to use a simple cleaning spell, but feeling muddled, switch some of the components over. As you parse the last syllable a flash of red lit smoke fills the room and you see the flash of silvered teeth! Looks like you have summoned some creature into the chamber with you, but the red fog roiling around you makes it hard to see...

@Kenshi 2 - Failure
The strange child wriggles out of your grasp and lets out an ear piercing scream! All unblinking eyes turn to look at you eeriely, as one child runs off to fetch the parents...

2 - Failure
You look around for a secret button or lever, but find none, though you were expecting one. Had you misplaced it? or had it been moved?

@Dark Cloud 6 - Overblown Success
The roots writhe around you as you pull the best incantation out of your memory, the arcane focus growing hot in your hands as you murmur the words of power to utter perfection. You are blinded by a white light, a sense of dizziness overtaking you momentarily before it dissipates. Your eyes adjust and you realise you are staring up into the noonday sun. Sheeps baa nearby, and you look down to see a young shepherd eyeing you with a mix of suspicion and fear.

Where... where are you?

Looking around, you see no hint of Black Castle nearby, nor giant trees that should definitely give a hint to it's location. A curious ewe bumps against your knee.

@Vatonage 5 - Total Success
The new power of the legendary beast pulses through you as you weave your spellwork. Your magic springs forth from you, and you feel Yggdrasil buckle to your will. Gargantuan roots tangle with jagged rocks and fine stonework, the great granting access to the roof and other areas thanks to this change. Black Castle is firmly in place now as the ground still shakes, safely anchored - and melded - to Yggdrassil.

@rocketrobie2 2 - Failure
There is a hiss and a sputter as the fuse ignites and then pitters out. For a moment you contemplate sticking your head in front of the cannon to get a better look, but then think better of it.

[5E] Peasants of Mass Destruction

@Dark Cloud then @rush99999 next. These peasants rolled terribly

[5E] Peasants of Mass Destruction

<sup>Your words ring out as a series of heads whip around, wide-eyed. One-Eyed Billy, self-imposed sheriff of the watch, had a special, shoddy non-lethal crossbow he liked to use to take pot shots at misbehaving Swampmuckians. He sometimes enjoyed taking a little bit of extra love and care with his work before dumping people in the stocks for all to see. No doubt he would take it as a mark against his pride if things went poorly before the biggest day of the year. The group of peasants closest to you begins to scatter like young street urchins as they themselves duck for cover or scarper away.

You hear a HURK as you grab the dwarf's collar instead of his sleeve in your rush to get moving. You manage to trip over your own feet all right, knocking yourself prone over the crate as you misjudged exactly how much motor control you have right now. It is neither elegant nor out of sight to be splayed out in such a manner. The dwarf from out of town bumps into the side of the crate as well, loosing his footing.</sup>

[5E] Peasants of Mass Destruction

@rush99999@Necroes I prefer the action at the bottom of the IC post, since it's easier to keep track of (although I msised Necroes' unread post last time, despite being subbed to the topic). If it's quite large and distracts from the IC part of the post you can put it in a hider

Dungeon Builder Monster Extraordinaire

I think they would find that exceptionally tempting! roll it up, you'll have average position strong effect if you succeed (and you can always push it during downtime if it goes wrong)

Phardax informs the minotaur that he has different plans that will yield the same results, and he does INVOKE. Sacrificing a Goblin imp, he calls forth a lvl 3 brute devil to bar the Minotaur's path.

POOHEAD189

The summoning is successful, and Krieg wrestles with the brute devil until he is pushed back. He paws at the ground as if he is about to charge and refuse to recognise his defeat, then points at Phardax as he shoots hot air out of his nostrils. Krieg declares the Dungeon Lords of this Dungeon weak and fearful of true bloodshed. He relinquishes his place as Dungeon Lord to start his own faction...

Krieg leaves the Dungeon as the rumours of his departure are spread by the imps.

@POOHEAD189 I'd also like to know what action you're taking during your downtime?

RTD: Masters of Evil ! Quest to World Domination!

@Dark Cloud@Gentlemanvaultboy@Yankee@rocketrobie2@DraconiWarlord@RainyHigh@Vatonage@Kenshi wow T.T I wasn't expecting the birthday wishes, thankyou so much <33!!

@Kenshi that's so nostalgic. I have an artbook covering the AD&D era art and it's so good

also the IC post is up now, my apologies! yesterday got away from me a bit. There's a slight possibility I'll be a bit slow this weekend but Monday should be back to normal at the latest.

For everyone involved in the Legendary Beast Kill, let me know OOC which upgrade you're picking and then add it to your character sheet (no need to wait for approval) so I can keep track :D

RTD: Masters of Evil ! Quest to World Domination!

@Vatonage 6 - Overblown Success
There is a rumble through the earth as the roots start drilling down, one final subdued earpiecing scream splitting the sky as the beast is destroyed. You watch as the branches hungrily reach towards the stars, seperate trees beginning to intertwine as they hungrily seek upwards.

You no longer feel droplets of water on your face, the great canopy blocking out the sky. It is eerie, in the shade. A claustrophobic pitch darkness pricked only by the light of standing torches. You hear the plinking of pebbles rolling along, and look down to see one butt against your feet before sliding over and lying still. You do not see the landslide but you hear it. A great roar from the east cliff and the taste of dust on the air. How big is it? How dangerous?

Gain Title: Mother of Yggdrasil
New Region: Yggdrasil. This has several questing locations within.
New Questing Location: Tunnels of the Molerat.


@GentlemanVaultBoy 5 - Success
You launch the magic bomb into the hall and hear a satisfying KABOOM! There is a beautiful plume of powdery purple smoke that shoots up into the air, but no one can see it because everyone is currently standing under the pitch darkness of Yggdrasil. The ground shakes, groans and cracks into fissures. But the shaking doesn't stop and the sounds only grow in volume.

You wonder, briefly, about the stability of Black Castle as the region is hit by an earthquake.

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4 - partial success
You pat Scara on the back. It is relatively reassuring, but not the most reassuring, just kinda nice.

@Dark Cloud 1 - catastrophic failure
you throw a punch but send yourself shooting back into the wall of dirt behind you, feeling the gnarled roots of the trees twining around you as you sit their stunned. Suddenly, you realise you are surrounded by these growing roots, and they just keep going!

You look up to see what looks like some kind of orb rolling towards the corpse of the Molerat.

Oh no! You are trapped in the hole with the bomb and the magically altered roots, what do you do to try to get out of this situation?

@ZAVAZggg 1 - Catastrophic failure
you run outside seeking the creature but find yourself surrounded by what appears to be a magical darkness. Tiny sprites flicker in the night, you know they are trying to lure you astray! More then anything else, you hear a great roar and the shaking of the ground.

That must be the beast! To the East of you! You are definitely sure it is the beast and not, in fact, a landslide.

@Kenshi 1 - Catastrophic Failure
Syrzan heads down the spiral staircase, but they flatten out beneath his feet! He goes sliding down the smooth surface, round and round in a spiral, getting dizzy! Just when it seems he will hit the ground, he finds the floor give way beneath him.

FOOSH! You find yourself in a ball pit, the sounds of eerie children laughter filling the air around you. You glance around to see climbing frames, some sort of - inflatable jello castle? - and myriads of tiny, bug eyed children with stony blue skin and tiny pig noses. Their legs elongate into strange hairy appendages reminiscent of a spider, and their arms seem a little too long to be human, their forearms tapering at the elbow and enlarging into oversized hands at the wrists. They dissapear into padded tunnels, sweep down slides and climb up rope ladders before dipping out of sight.

One of the children in the ballpit with you picks up a ball and tosses it towards you.

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4 - Partial Success
You decide the appropriate reaction to this situation is to summon a giant cheese illusion. You go to cast it, but instead summon a very small cube of brie. Now, how had that happened? Oh well. It smelled particularly delicious at least.

@rocketrobie2 5 - Success!
You expertly keep your footing as you navigate the battlements, paying no heed to the occasional rock that skips off the side of the castle. Aha! that's when you spot it, just as a great shadow starts to encroach the castle. A beautiful, pristine cannon, shapely size, expertly stacked cannonballs nearby. Is that the new model out of the Kingdom? It must be something someone stole on a recent expedition. It's so impossibly perfectly designed, and exactly what you need.

The world around you is plunged into darkness.

@Yankee 4 - Partial success
You meander through the hallways, finding your way through a very nicely decorated library and reading room. A golem shushes you as you walk by into one of the many grand halls, this one in a more viking-esque longhall style, with a roaring fire on one side. You pass through the art gallery, This one - lets see, was this the one that linked to the Blue Medusa? - and through the vault of forbidden magic. Then there was the trinket pit, the curios and collectables room, the ballroom, the dwarvern slave laundry room (eegads, dwarves was so bad at laundry. What was the point in enslaving them in the first place? Ah yes, you remember. It was to make them utterly miserable doing something so against their nature) there was the antiquated fish pond that had seen better times, Ada's Golem workshop (better not tell her you popped by. You're not sure if she'd be mad at you for interloping or talk your ear off about a recent discovery, but either way you didn't want to find out) the Siren Cavern, the pit of dispair... You shelled out a gold piece to the bridge troll in the end, and he told you you waaay overshot it.

It takes you many hours to find your way there, and you are tuckered out. This castle has too many stairs. You have some nice postcards, though.

@RainyHigh 1 - catastrophic failure
You trip over your own feet, puke over your shirt and then faceplant the cobbled ground, your nose starting to bleed. You remind yourself that a few minutes ago you bested a legendary beast, and lament how far you have fallen.

THE BEAST is Slain!

@VeyrinDay@Vatonage@Dark Cloud@Gentlemanvaultboy@RainyHigh, anyone else who got a hit on the creature in time
While words of your deeds have not yet spread far, you have changed the balance of the world by killing a Legendary Creature, and the power released on it's death has forever changed you as well. This comes with it's own prestige... and consequences.

Gain: Legendary BeastSlaye - You have contributed to the kill of a legendary beast and all that comes with it.

Gain: Fragment of Soul - Minor: You have been morphed and now have a higher success rate of digging tunnels and sniffing out rare mining resources.

Gain Fragment of Soul - Powerful: You have absorbed part of the essence of the legendary creature. Gain one of the following:

Rodent Teeth - Your front teeth elongate into longer, picture perfect rodent teeth. Your bite has become alot more powerful, and you may be able to convince others that you are a breed of vampire. Few people have seen the creatures and lived, after all.

Clawed Hands - Your hands instead end in really long claws. Nice. These can be useful for all sorts of things, but might make some delicate work harder (or easier, in some cases) They are also quite dangerous in combat.

Whiskered - Your spacial awareness is improved and you can sometimes sense slight tremors through the ground.

Near-Blind but increased other senses - Your sight has either become a series of indistinguishable impressions or you have lost your sight completely. All your other mundane senses are increased in efficiency.

Albino Alopecia - Lose all hair, your skin turns pale and your eyes turn pink. You suffer more in strong sunlight but your aptitude with sensing magic is increased.

[2 people max only] Suppress the impulse - you can instead try to suppress the power of this creature and absorb a minimal amount of it's essence, appearing to continue on perfectly as normal. However, suppressing this takes a constant level of small concentration. When you roll a 1 or 6, the Legendary Essence may overtake you in peculiar and unexpected ways.

Earthquake! Landslide!

These are a threat to the stability of Black Castle! If left without your intervention Black Castle will collapse. The landslide may also cover the new tunnels you have gained access to. How will you distribute your actions to save both things, or perhaps will you not bother at all...?

Other new ....situations

• That's one big ass tree you got there, and it's kind of blocking out the sun and kind of going up beyond the clouds. You could prune it or leave the area in darkness.
• Did this creature have loot though? The whole exploding it a myriad of ways might have ruined some of it, but who knows?
• Nice new tunnel system you got there, probably connects to a bunch of places too

RTD: Masters of Evil ! Quest to World Domination!

most of the replies are written out, i'm quite happy for people to keep posting and I can modify things if necessary :D

its my birfday today, piats incoming tommorrow!

RTD: Masters of Evil ! Quest to World Domination!

oof, didn't get the post up but hopefully tommorrow! You can still post if you'd like, I can attempt to combine rolls/posts into some semblance of sense if you have another idea for something you want your character to do (or normal rp posts are good too)

Dungeon Builder Monster Extraordinaire

@Dark Cloud@Cao the Exiled I really like the idea of Zaz'ak bringing Deekin back with him from Myre's Root. Perhaps Zaz'ak recognises him from the failed dungeon and offers him a place in the Dungeon. we could run it IC as the characters wanting the new monster to prove himself first, until eventually they recognise him as a Dungeon Lord equal in power. Or perhaps the other characters know Deekin too and trust his judgement as a potential Dungeon Lord anyway.