Friendship is Dragons
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Page 1186 - Gin & Doctor, Part 6
Author Notes:
Artist: Digo Dragon
Guest Author's Note: "You know that thing where you used to be able to cloudwalk, and then suddenly you can't, but this time you're standing on something that itself can be supported by cloud?
Story Time prompt: players who narrate themselves right into the GM's trap, with minimal to no active assistance from the GM."
Newbiespud's Note: Got a new Spudventure for ya! My friend's running a 5e campaign for us with a twist: We all woke up with amnesia, with next to no idea of our identities or what our classes and ability scores are! And we're about to enter the Dungeon of the Mad Mage!
The Forgotten Ones, Session 1 – Podcast Video
That said, it's more solidarity than interface. These guards empathize a bit with the unicorns and earth ponies - which will be important over the next two comics.
I play a leatherwing (Bat Pony) sorcerer Unification (!aka alicorn style) bloodline named Firefly. Firefly has a garnered a reputation in group for walking into dm traps, and right back out of them through clever meanderings, spells, and being adorable as heck.
A more recent case in point was in our campaign, the supposed return of the queen after her body was stolen. We as pc's knew that she was gone gone, soul trapped in the stone the paladin had.
But she appears with a 'group' of guards. Well, same number as the ones that took her body, with two more.
Now, she starts to talk to the crowd, as the military is mobilizing to prevent what could be a riot of folks, with who they could spare to stop the demons outside the walls.
The party manages to get close, firefly to being small, and the rest of the party because of the 10 foot tall gryphon with them.
As she goes on about saving souls of loved ones. Firefly, well, pulled a firefly moment. (Something ive sadly become well known for starting at certain points)
He starts to heckle her on the points she's wrong with. That the gods are caring, of a new goddess found, Love no less. Even that appeared in the city they are in too. He never said she was wrong, but he kept orating and grabbing the crowd with his charm, words and charisma.
As she seemed to just stop, firefly noted that one guard seemed to really hate him, and theres a reason. The opposing evil group, firefly had long ago, took a pegasi warriors wings with a very nasty polymorph scroll. Turned him earthbound. (And our one paladin into a dwarf.)
And he cast a targeted dispel on his hat. (Again, smart work knew that with a detect magic up before, he could see the transmutation on the helmets, so hats of disguise.)
And revealing the guard. He turned the crowd with the changeling equivalent. Sadly that meant going 2 rounds with an equal level fighter.
But he managed a reversal of the situation nicely. (And subsequent attempt at poisoning three days later.)
Of course, low fort save + solo adventurer = needing a new PC...
So there Thrakk was, sneaking into a bandit camp. His dexterity was awful, but as you may know, Gargoyles get huge bonuses to Hide as long as they don't move. So the whole thing was basically a game of Red Light, Green Light, with Thrakk freezing any time he heard guards approaching. This worked surprisingly well, until Thrakk walked into a small kitchen area, and practically bumped into a bandit getting ready to leave it. However, as Thrakk was a rogue of many talents (hitting people, and hitting people really hard being the primary ones) he had a clever escape plan. He looked the bandit dead in the eyes and said; "Your friends spiked your food. This is just a bad trip. You should go sleep it off." And, thanks to the nature of probability, I rolled a natural twenty and nearly got throttled by my GM in rage.
"I go check for traps on the far door."
(Guess where the pit trap was.)