We were down to four players for this session, as nobody could seem to get in touch with Present Presence. I did, however, manage to use my voice for this session, which made things much easier than they otherwise might have ended up.
When we last left our party, they were recovering from a brutal fight with the sage and the barbarian. During the night, Gerard noticed that Aisling and Creig had disappeared along with one of the necklaces. He woke Denzai and Amusel, but was unable to rouse Shamus from his heavy slumber. They met up with Creig, who had just reentered the temple after spending time outside for some unknown reason. A discussion about how best to proceed almost came to blows between Creig and Gerard, but Denzai and Amusel managed to calm them down. After the stairs leading out of the temple mysteriously melted, Creig finally agreed to go with the group.
After some exploration, the party encountered a goblin and a kobold. After effortlessly dispatching the kobold, the party turned their attentions to the goblin. Denzai spontaneously decided to name their enemy Gregory, an idea that the goblin seemed extremely hostile towards. While the rest of the party began to wear Gregory down, Gerard realized that he had a straight line to the goblin. After building up a running start, he vaulted off the dead kobold's head, sailed over a lit fire pit, and ran across Denzai and Amusel to kick the goblin so hard it was embedded in the nearest wall.
Not to be outdone, Creig slid between Gerard's legs and wall jumped off of Gerard's and Denzai's much taller bodies, finally launching himself into the air before bringing his sword down onto the goblin from above.
At this point, the goblin attempted to heal itself. This proved to be a mistake. As soon as the goblin was distracted, Creig slashed its throat open. Denzai and Gerard stepped up to finish their foe off, and punched it so hard that they separated its head from its body. The latter bounced off a wall before the former had hit the ground.
Their next challenge was a room full of spiders too weak to be worth mentioning. After killing them, Gerard noted that their meat was a valuable commodity on the Mountain. The group took a break for a few minutes to butcher their kills, and took the opportunity to eat their first fresh cooked meal in days.
Finally, they came to a large, empty room. As soon as they all got inside, the door slammed shut behind them and an ice elemental materialized out of the walls. During the ensuing fight, Gerard and Creig had another brilliant idea. Creig lit Gerard's fists on fire while Gerard maneuvered into position. When the moment of action finally arrived, he charged forward with a battle cry never before known to Sanctum outside of books brought back from other planes: "Faaalcooon PUUUNCH!"
After this, Denzai attempted to lasso the elemental and drag it towards the fire in the center of the room. He failed, but the elemental's struggle against the rope caused it to strangle itself. As the elemental lay choking on the ground, Creig stepped up to deliver the final blow, shattering it into millions of tiny shards that scattered across the floor and began to melt into nothing.
The party congratulated each other on a good day's work and lay down to rest for the night.
Tropes from this session:
- Bash Brothers: Put Creig and Gerard in a fight together and awesomeness is practically guaranteed to ensue. And then they'll probably go back to trying to kill each other. This is likely due at least in part to the fact that their players are friends in Real Life.
- Broken Bridge: The stairs out of the dungeon melted when Creig tried to actually leave.
- Crazy Awesome: GERARD. No sane person would even consider some of the stuff he pulled during this session.
- Crowning Music Of Awesome: I put on my ES Posthumus playlist towards the end of the goblin battle, and then started taking requests from the Blazblue soundtrack.
- Death from Above: Creig vs. goblin via wall jump.
- Fine, You Can Just Wait Here Alone: Pretty much everyone said some variation of this to Creig.
- I Am Not Left-Handed: Gerard's player did this to himself by accident - he'd been forgetting to add a +3 bonus to damage for the full duration of the campaign up to this point.
- I Gave My Word: Gerard lists this as his reason for continuing to search for Krall.
- Incendiary Exponent: See Megaton Punch.
- Incredibly Lame Pun: "Palmela Handerson". It Makes Sense in Context.
- The Joys of Torturing Mooks: WHERE DO I EVEN BEGIN?!!!
- Kicked Across The Room: The goblin, so hard that it was actually embedded in the wall for a moment.
- Let's Get Dangerous!: Gerard put his book away and calmly stared down Creig right before delivering the below-cited rant.
- Megaton Punch: Gerard + Firebrand + a running start = FALCON PUNCH!!
- Deadly Upgrade: Unfortunately, after this was over there was still the matter of Gerard being on fire...
- Off with His Head!: The goblin.
- Punctuated! For! Emphasis!:
Gerard: Everyone, SHUT UP. Creig! You are not at sea! You are not on a boat! You are not with your THRICE DAMNED CREW! YOU! ARE! IN! A! GROUP! And IF YOU WANT TO LIVE, YOU WILL HELP ME.
- There Is No Kill Like Overkill: The goblin. That is all.
- Random Number God: It was almost as though the dice themselves could detect the awesomeness that was going on and decided to help things along. Specifically, the Falcon Punch did as much damage as it could possibly have done.
- Refuge in Audacity: Just about everything that happened tonight, really, but special mention goes to using the dead goblin's head as a ranged weapon and the Falcon Punch.
- Rule of Cool / Rule of Funny: Due to the utter lack of anything with any importance to the plot past the first half hour of the session, I decided to just let everyone go nuts. The results were some of the most over-the-top moments of my (admittedly quite limited) gaming career to date.
- Throw It In!: Phommf is a swear word in Sanctum as of this session.
- Vitriolic Best Buds: Creig and Gerard look to be headed towards this.
- Wall Jump: Creig does this off of Denzai and Gerard so he can get on top of the goblin.
- Whip It Good: Denzai's Weapon Of Choice for the night.
Favorite OOC Moment:
- It was actually hard to find one where people weren't in character, but I have to go with this if only for the ego boost. Background: Denzai was attempting to attack and disarm a goblin with a whip. He made the attack, but the goblin got a natural 20 on its saving throw for the disarm. I saw an opportunity for hilarity.
Me: The goblin grabs the end of the whip, and yanks it out of Denzai's hands. It pulls so hard that it hits itself in the face with the other end of the whip for 8 damage.Xiphoniii: Best. Flavor. Ever.
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