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In Rainbow's player's defense, Littlepip can be pretty darn sneaky and conniving herself.
In fanon, maybe. But that's usually him being aged up. For some reason Lil Pip gets all the mares in fanon. He's also a swarthy mofo who never seems to shower.
*zoowm*
What's that you ask? It's the sound a joke makes when it goes over your head.
What's that you ask? It's the sound a joke makes when it goes over your head.
They're talking about Littlepip, not Pipsqueak. Littlepip is the main character of Fallout: Equestria, which is a really good read.
Littlepip my not be a saintn but Homage would have it no other way.
Pipsqueak is the squeaky pirate foal.
Littlepip is the badass stable dweller from FoE.
The names aren't even that similar. Please get it right.
Littlepip is the badass stable dweller from FoE.
The names aren't even that similar. Please get it right.
I don't care /what/ the GM says, I still don't trust Jeffrey the Druid.
Guardsman wisdom is wasted on a kid from the nastiest slums who never trusts anyone ever anyway under any circumstances. The spy was a fantastic fry cook though.
Anyone here seen the movie Zathura? I just finished an adventure with some online pals, running them through a pony adventure in that setting. One of the NPCs early on was an earth pony filly stowaway in the house. They thought her harmless, but as the adventure unfolded, the NPC was showing up less often around and no one paid her mind.
Wasn't until it was almost too late that they realized that filly was a changeling trying to make the players lose the Zathura game. Nearly succeeded!! :D
Wasn't until it was almost too late that they realized that filly was a changeling trying to make the players lose the Zathura game. Nearly succeeded!! :D
Spy kids 3D mixed with jumanji?
(also screw what the author says the books are connected)
(also screw what the author says the books are connected)
Nobody listens to Zathura. Not even Zathura.
(sorry any bab5 fans if I got it wrong)
(sorry any bab5 fans if I got it wrong)
Xathras, buddy. But it's okay. Xathras is used to being beast of burden.
Diseases in game? Wow players really hate that one but alright.
The two I have ran into on separate games are Necroplauge and Madluotus. (can't remember the real names, but those were the player given names to the diseases which stuck.)
The necroplauge affected the party's fighter leaving him to take a more zombie like appearance. If he got KOed then he would have to roll a CON check otherwise he character kicks the bucket and rises back up as an undead. It also lowered his CON by a little and people would bare him from villages because it could spread.
Mostly we avoided it by staying away from him and telling him not to come near us even if we were about to get killed. Eventually we found a medic that fixed it with some magical herbs.
Madulotus was a much more chaotic and worse disease. We were playing some game that had a Call of Cuthulu vibe except the world was already a mess (after the end) and you characters could actually survive.
Our party was exploring this old lab in search of modern equipment like computers to break back to our town/base. Then we ran into one of the DM's "Mooks" (We called him main boss) which caused us to get affected by the Madulotus which was a plague like disease that turned you crazy.
After the battle as the Mook got away as we were all hearing voices. So we started searching the lab trying to find the cure because crazy madness disease in lab means the scientist were trying to cure it right?
Wrong... So we gathered the electronics and sealed them in a room for us to retrieve latter as we went down. a few battle latter with low sanity we ran into the boss. That was when we started losing our sanity roll which in this game was kind of funny and cruel.
Some of us got to hit stronger but not as accurate while others ranted about the voices growing louder making us unable to hear anything. Then with our tainted sword's (wo)man losing her sword she freaked out and rolled for her sanity since she had a Golum like attachment to it and slaughtered the boss with her bare hands.
Boss dead so we win right? Saddly that wasn't the case as our wither bunch of nut jobs went crazy attacking each other or running into the wilds no smarter than the beasts out there. The girl turned into an eldritch monster and slaughtered the rest of the team.
New characters rolled up as we check the lab wearing full hazmat suits despite the penalties and tried gunning down the Mook that killed our party last time and laughed as we set his body on fire as we claimed we finally killed the boss. DM kept insisting that he wasn't a boss and even showed us his low stats. We didn't care.
I know the last one sounds weird but for their zombies Tasers worked even better than bullets in killing them. So staying in cities and making electricity was a lot better than cabin in the woods in terms of survival.
The two I have ran into on separate games are Necroplauge and Madluotus. (can't remember the real names, but those were the player given names to the diseases which stuck.)
The necroplauge affected the party's fighter leaving him to take a more zombie like appearance. If he got KOed then he would have to roll a CON check otherwise he character kicks the bucket and rises back up as an undead. It also lowered his CON by a little and people would bare him from villages because it could spread.
Mostly we avoided it by staying away from him and telling him not to come near us even if we were about to get killed. Eventually we found a medic that fixed it with some magical herbs.
Madulotus was a much more chaotic and worse disease. We were playing some game that had a Call of Cuthulu vibe except the world was already a mess (after the end) and you characters could actually survive.
Our party was exploring this old lab in search of modern equipment like computers to break back to our town/base. Then we ran into one of the DM's "Mooks" (We called him main boss) which caused us to get affected by the Madulotus which was a plague like disease that turned you crazy.
After the battle as the Mook got away as we were all hearing voices. So we started searching the lab trying to find the cure because crazy madness disease in lab means the scientist were trying to cure it right?
Wrong... So we gathered the electronics and sealed them in a room for us to retrieve latter as we went down. a few battle latter with low sanity we ran into the boss. That was when we started losing our sanity roll which in this game was kind of funny and cruel.
Some of us got to hit stronger but not as accurate while others ranted about the voices growing louder making us unable to hear anything. Then with our tainted sword's (wo)man losing her sword she freaked out and rolled for her sanity since she had a Golum like attachment to it and slaughtered the boss with her bare hands.
Boss dead so we win right? Saddly that wasn't the case as our wither bunch of nut jobs went crazy attacking each other or running into the wilds no smarter than the beasts out there. The girl turned into an eldritch monster and slaughtered the rest of the team.
New characters rolled up as we check the lab wearing full hazmat suits despite the penalties and tried gunning down the Mook that killed our party last time and laughed as we set his body on fire as we claimed we finally killed the boss. DM kept insisting that he wasn't a boss and even showed us his low stats. We didn't care.
I know the last one sounds weird but for their zombies Tasers worked even better than bullets in killing them. So staying in cities and making electricity was a lot better than cabin in the woods in terms of survival.
This one is from that other campaign I mentioned about 10 or so pages back. The one where everyone was stuck on a strange island. See, the island was basically the domain of an ancient evil, with things having landed there and gone mad. We had washed up on the island and were trying to survive. In retrospect this would have gone a lot worse if it hadn't been for me.
See, I was playing a Cleric at the time. And the DM had completely forgotten that a Cleric spell available to me was "Create Food and Drink", so we didn't have to hunt as much. As a result of that and other factors though, I was stuck as a support. I... wasn't happy about this to say the least, and this accumulated to a particular breaking point.
See, we had just investigated a place, and were making our way back at night. Keep in mind we're about Level 5-6 at this point, possibly 7. I'm providing rearguard, hoping to actually get to be a Battle Cleric like planned for once, when a Night Hag pops out of nowhere. One frantic combat later, and we survive, but flee with me bitten and incapacitated by the magical disease/poison on the Night Hag. That could kill me off.
At this point we took a break because like I said, that was accumulation. Ended up venting frustrations of my character about to die because I happened to be the only character who had taken any skill ranks in heal, something not remedied to later down the line. Fortunately for me and the party my cleric survived and last almost all the campaign... before I managed to get within the final boss's spinning attack of death radius while healing the oft injured barbarian and ended up being one of the only two to die in the fight.
See, I was playing a Cleric at the time. And the DM had completely forgotten that a Cleric spell available to me was "Create Food and Drink", so we didn't have to hunt as much. As a result of that and other factors though, I was stuck as a support. I... wasn't happy about this to say the least, and this accumulated to a particular breaking point.
See, we had just investigated a place, and were making our way back at night. Keep in mind we're about Level 5-6 at this point, possibly 7. I'm providing rearguard, hoping to actually get to be a Battle Cleric like planned for once, when a Night Hag pops out of nowhere. One frantic combat later, and we survive, but flee with me bitten and incapacitated by the magical disease/poison on the Night Hag. That could kill me off.
At this point we took a break because like I said, that was accumulation. Ended up venting frustrations of my character about to die because I happened to be the only character who had taken any skill ranks in heal, something not remedied to later down the line. Fortunately for me and the party my cleric survived and last almost all the campaign... before I managed to get within the final boss's spinning attack of death radius while healing the oft injured barbarian and ended up being one of the only two to die in the fight.
Running a level 20 campaign with an alchemist, we had some pretty epic enemies of various types. My alchemist had a fun little spell called blood transcription that if he consumed a pint of a fallen spellcaster's blood, he learned a spell from them.
Funny thing...there are consequence when you quaff about 4 pints in the space of fifteen minutes, and one is undead, one is angelic, one is demonic and one is mortal. I actually opened my mouth and asked if I should be taking some heavy penalties.
I can't remember what the ensuing sickness was, but it involved screams of agony first from the alchemist, then from whatever vessel his diarrhea was being ejected into. I had to make saves every 12 hours against violent bowel movements for eternity. DM said that nothing short of a god of healing fixing me was gonna get rid of it forever.
Funny thing...there are consequence when you quaff about 4 pints in the space of fifteen minutes, and one is undead, one is angelic, one is demonic and one is mortal. I actually opened my mouth and asked if I should be taking some heavy penalties.
I can't remember what the ensuing sickness was, but it involved screams of agony first from the alchemist, then from whatever vessel his diarrhea was being ejected into. I had to make saves every 12 hours against violent bowel movements for eternity. DM said that nothing short of a god of healing fixing me was gonna get rid of it forever.
Basically, it was an amount of points so high you would actually be tempted by it, but you functionally have a permanent reduction in maximum energy and the GM could impose very arbitrary punishments if you ever used your full energy on something because it meant that for a split second you weren't holding back the disease.
There were two times when disease nearly wiped out the city we were in... And It was totally our fault. First was when the necromancer was seeking undead to study/subvert to his will he came across a Mummy and became a carrier for mummy rot. so the first thought in his head was, lets touch a few people before I remove this disease. AND that is how he wiped out the slums in two days.
The second time was in a mad druids lair when we freed one of her prisoners, turns out he had a Chrisma damaging disease on him that took a while to go into effect. So as we all got the disease from the prisoner, we then went about hanging around the city for 2 weeks before it kicked in. But thankfully after the mummy rot epidemic, ALL the temples set up a plan to Cure the entire city in a matter of weeks.
And this is why All our characters now go in for scheduled checkups with the party Cleric.
The second time was in a mad druids lair when we freed one of her prisoners, turns out he had a Chrisma damaging disease on him that took a while to go into effect. So as we all got the disease from the prisoner, we then went about hanging around the city for 2 weeks before it kicked in. But thankfully after the mummy rot epidemic, ALL the temples set up a plan to Cure the entire city in a matter of weeks.
And this is why All our characters now go in for scheduled checkups with the party Cleric.
Devastating in densely populated, temporary dwellings like Imperial Guard camps, and suitably disfiguring to make undying Nurglite carriers look horrific.
Huh, can't think of any time diseases were significant in any game. Usually the team clerics/doctors have it under control.
I feel like I've been cheated somehow...
Don't worry, Spud. It'll clear up soon. There is something going around right now.
Wishes of good health and fortune to you.
Wishes of good health and fortune to you.
Hug them! hug Them All! *hugs*
Get well soon Newbiespud!
Also for good measure I'll toss in a brohoof... BROHOOF! (\
Get well soon Newbiespud!
Also for good measure I'll toss in a brohoof... BROHOOF! (\
I can only guess that it is one of the following:
EBOLA! Bumpty-bumpty-bump!
Captain Tripps (Second verse, same as the first)
Gryphball: catch the disease!
Or the blue flu
EBOLA! Bumpty-bumpty-bump!
Captain Tripps (Second verse, same as the first)
Gryphball: catch the disease!
Or the blue flu
Clearly this is the dreaded Lurgee, or possibly cooties.
Chaotic Evil alignment -- RD could go rainbow factory on the kid without consequences if she wanted.
Don't forget Luna, Celestia, the rest of the party, the justice department, the weather factory staff, everyone who disliked that story, Newbiesupd, Pony Satan, and Sue, the receptionist.
That does get messy. I ran a D&D game where the PCs hanged one of their own for nearly killing off a beloved NPC.
That wouldn't be chaotic evil. That would be stupid-evil (with a hint of chaotc-stupir)
Good one Spud. Now if you will excuse me, I need to see if it's possible for the culprit to be Discord in an attempt to steal the Elements of Harmony and thus be able to take over all of Equestria without fear of being turned to stone while his nose itches.
I still say it's gonna be Pipsqueak. It's ALWAYS the one you least suspect.
Hell, once I surprised my GM by correctly guessing that the big, dumb animal we had a sudden and mysterious contract to transport was actually the one behind the contract. Surprised everyone else, too.
Remember, kids, just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they're NOT out to get you.
Hell, once I surprised my GM by correctly guessing that the big, dumb animal we had a sudden and mysterious contract to transport was actually the one behind the contract. Surprised everyone else, too.
Remember, kids, just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they're NOT out to get you.
If they are out to get you, you're prepared.
If they aren't out to get you, they're lying and you're still prepared!
The one I least suspect is Twilight Sparkle. I guess she might have done it in the FiW dimension.
The one I least suspect is Luna herself... which actually kind of makes a twisted kind of sense. This could just be some elaborate gambit to garner sympathy for her through unjust accusation. Unlikely, but possible.
My flu seemed to hit its nasty peak last night, so I think I'm on my way down - knocking on all kinds of wood here. I hope to be fully functional by the end of the week.