Cordelia and Jean, like a leaf on the wind, spin their zipcraft along the ice wall 50ft upwards.
Tony and Kyo are less lucky. The ship crashes through the wall, dealing 30 damage to its hull and sending cracks along the glass of the cockpit. As they pass through the space of the wall, Brutus takes an additional 21 cold damage.
Brutus' CON save for 1/2 cold damage: 16
(Total damage to Brutus: 40 (plus 17 piercing damage from the exploding boulder earlier)
Bludgeoning/Cold damage to both Kyo and Tony: 20)
The steam skipper begins to shudder and spin out of Tony's control. The steering mechanism is ripped from Tony's hands as Brutus asserts itself, landing roughly upon a nearby boulder. Black smoke begins to belch from his vents and the cockpit pops open.
(Safe to assume we can't pick-up people in these things, right? Not spacious enough?)
Rollback Post to RevisionRollBack
DM: Adventures in Phandalin [Khessa], The Dread of Strahd[Darya], Dragons of Stormwreck Isle [Rook], Baldur's Gate Mysteries [4-Player] Player: Oona in MO's Icewind Dale Ru's Current Status
(Exactly. Then again, there's next to no chance that you saw what happened to Brutus. You could try communicating with the other ships via your speaking stones)
(Oh my god, that's amazing. Tell you what: you can't steer the entire boulder on your own; it's probably closer to 15 ft to a side. If Brutus can be healed, though... Taesn's memories tell you that his arcane core can bolster your abilities, much the way that Amaruve is using Caspian to power those big, big spells... You have a pool of healing energy, right? That won't Mend the damage, but it will stop Brutus from "dying" and get him back in the fight)
Kyo unbuckles himself and climbs out the side of Brutus and almost collapses down on the ground, clutching his ribs. It hard to get a bearing on where the action is because the boulder they landed on has gone into a spin, and the area around them is orbiting too fast to spot their allies.
Kyo closes his eyes and tries to call out to Vasht for aid. He doesn't get a response in the way he was hoping but when he opens his eyes he notices his paw glowing slightly. He places his paw on his sore ribs and heals himself for 7. rising to his feet he reaches in to touch Tony for 8.
Kyo pauses for a moment and looks at the banged up ship, not knowing if this will work, he gives it a shot, touching the craft, attempting to heal it for 8.
Kyo extends the amber staff toward Brutus and imparts Vast's blessing. The ship shudders, then sighs. The black smoke pouring from its vents slows and is replaced by clean white wisps of steam. It raises itself upon its jointed limbs, leaning forward to gently bump Kyo with its cockpit "head". One wing hangs limply at its side, and the cracks on its surface are unchanged. It's ready to help however it can, though.
Kyo pats Brutus' 'head' area, "Good....boy..?" . Kyo looks over the craft, seeing how it might not be in any shape to fly any time soon. He hops back into his back seat, "Alright Tony, lets try something, I'm going to try to give you some propulsion, see if you can still steer this thing."
Kyo uses his sensors to find some nearby smaller boulders. and using Mold Earth, amplified by the ships core to grab some smaller boulders with his mind and slam them into the back of the one they are stranded on to push them forward. They go very slow at first but with each successive push they gain a bit more momentum.
**ooc: I know mold earth doesnt normally let me big up huge boulders, but the huge boulders aren't normally floating free in the air, lol let me know if you want me to roll anything for this**
(I like this way too much to say no. By tapping into Brutus' arcane core you can make it work. Some caveats: 1) The mobility of the boulder is the pits. You can move it around. But rolling maneuvers is simply not gonna happen. 2) Tony is out of the equation as far as steering is concerned. He might find a better job in the back using the sensor array 3) That being the case, I'm calling this a major concentration spell. If you want to cast anything else, you'll need to let the boulders drift aimlessly. 4) You DEFINITELY get inspiration for this, though!)
**lol, okay lets maybe retcon that Tony and I swapped places. and he's giving me directions and im steering simply by having the boulders hit different parts of out main boulder?**
(perfect. You're maintaining contact with the core in lieu of the steering controls; it's a glowing white cube that has popped up; now partially exposed in the front console)
This post has potentially manipulated dice roll results.
(OOC Not entirely sure where Caspian left off. Best I can tell, we had a clear corridor through Path C.)
Perspicacious sees a path and takes it, trying to gain some ground and maybe get ahead and cut off the path of any enemy ships. Or at least to get a new vantage point and assess. "Guns hot, Amaruve, here we we go!"
(Caspian had just blasted aside a ton or two of boulders using a magically-boosted Gust of Wind. That cleared your path, and in conjunction with a stellar Maneuvers roll...)
Caspian zips straight ahead at full speed. Perspicacious and Amaruve, you round a building-sized boulder just a few seconds too late to witness Tony and Kyo (in Brutus) crashing through the ice wall. Instead, you see Jean and Cordelia (in Duncan) tearing after the hornet, all of whom are running a roughly perpendicular track in front of you.
(With your roll, AP, you have advantage on an attack roll + added sneak attack damage if you want to surprise the enemy vessel!)
Cordelia and Jean, like a leaf on the wind, spin their zipcraft along the ice wall 50ft upwards.
Tony and Kyo are less lucky. The ship crashes through the wall, dealing 30 damage to its hull and sending cracks along the glass of the cockpit. As they pass through the space of the wall, Brutus takes an additional 21 cold damage.
Brutus' CON save for 1/2 cold damage: 16
(Total damage to Brutus: 40 (plus 17 piercing damage from the exploding boulder earlier)
Bludgeoning/Cold damage to both Kyo and Tony: 20)
The steam skipper begins to shudder and spin out of Tony's control. The steering mechanism is ripped from Tony's hands as Brutus asserts itself, landing roughly upon a nearby boulder. Black smoke begins to belch from his vents and the cockpit pops open.
Imani Jones - Lv 11 Warlock of The Living City - Variant Human| Fate/False Revelation
Wick Stumbleduck - Lv 4 Lore Bard - Forest Gnome | Elustran Days
Khurah - Lv 3 Star Druid - Half-orc | Boats, Rocks, and Ruffians
Dale Swanson - User of the Sound of Silence Stand - Jojo's Bizarre Adventure: Sunset Investigations
Ayaci Vikerfjell - Lv 8 Rune Knight | Variant Human | Storm King's Thunder
Tony is mildly concussed, but still conscious, “Alright... what was that!” Is Brutus down?
DM - Elustran Days ~ Fate/False Revelation
Rex'aliha - Hoard of the Dragon Queen ~ Mozu of Worms - The Stormpoint Mountains ~ Muireach Maon - Shepherd’s Crossing ~ Crownsguard - Storm King’s Thunder ~ Gunnar Wayland - Boats, Rocks, and Ruffians ~ POUF! - Ex-Ravens ~ Pascal LaRoux - Long Road Dragon Heist
(For the time being: yes, Brutus is down. And now you know that your ships only have around 50HP!)
Imani Jones - Lv 11 Warlock of The Living City - Variant Human| Fate/False Revelation
Wick Stumbleduck - Lv 4 Lore Bard - Forest Gnome | Elustran Days
Khurah - Lv 3 Star Druid - Half-orc | Boats, Rocks, and Ruffians
Dale Swanson - User of the Sound of Silence Stand - Jojo's Bizarre Adventure: Sunset Investigations
Ayaci Vikerfjell - Lv 8 Rune Knight | Variant Human | Storm King's Thunder
The rest of the group can hear the distant calls of goblin cursing.
DM - Elustran Days ~ Fate/False Revelation
Rex'aliha - Hoard of the Dragon Queen ~ Mozu of Worms - The Stormpoint Mountains ~ Muireach Maon - Shepherd’s Crossing ~ Crownsguard - Storm King’s Thunder ~ Gunnar Wayland - Boats, Rocks, and Ruffians ~ POUF! - Ex-Ravens ~ Pascal LaRoux - Long Road Dragon Heist
(Safe to assume we can't pick-up people in these things, right? Not spacious enough?)
DM: Adventures in Phandalin [Khessa], The Dread of Strahd [Darya], Dragons of Stormwreck Isle [Rook], Baldur's Gate Mysteries [4-Player]
Player: Oona in MO's Icewind Dale
Ru's Current Status
(Exactly. Then again, there's next to no chance that you saw what happened to Brutus. You could try communicating with the other ships via your speaking stones)
Imani Jones - Lv 11 Warlock of The Living City - Variant Human| Fate/False Revelation
Wick Stumbleduck - Lv 4 Lore Bard - Forest Gnome | Elustran Days
Khurah - Lv 3 Star Druid - Half-orc | Boats, Rocks, and Ruffians
Dale Swanson - User of the Sound of Silence Stand - Jojo's Bizarre Adventure: Sunset Investigations
Ayaci Vikerfjell - Lv 8 Rune Knight | Variant Human | Storm King's Thunder
"Ugghhh..." Kyo rubs his head, "Excellent flying Cap'n Tony. Maybe next time steer away from the giant ice wall"
**how big of a boulder did we land on?**
“Well how was I supposed to know a wall of ice would pop up in the middle of the SKY!?” Tony will try to jury rig a fix for Brutus.
DM - Elustran Days ~ Fate/False Revelation
Rex'aliha - Hoard of the Dragon Queen ~ Mozu of Worms - The Stormpoint Mountains ~ Muireach Maon - Shepherd’s Crossing ~ Crownsguard - Storm King’s Thunder ~ Gunnar Wayland - Boats, Rocks, and Ruffians ~ POUF! - Ex-Ravens ~ Pascal LaRoux - Long Road Dragon Heist
(does Kyo know mend? Because that would be, you know, super helpful right about now...)
Imani Jones - Lv 11 Warlock of The Living City - Variant Human| Fate/False Revelation
Wick Stumbleduck - Lv 4 Lore Bard - Forest Gnome | Elustran Days
Khurah - Lv 3 Star Druid - Half-orc | Boats, Rocks, and Ruffians
Dale Swanson - User of the Sound of Silence Stand - Jojo's Bizarre Adventure: Sunset Investigations
Ayaci Vikerfjell - Lv 8 Rune Knight | Variant Human | Storm King's Thunder
Amaruve sniffs the speaking stone. How are people supposed to communicate through a thing like that?
Extended Signature
**I do not know mending, but i can move a 5 foot cube of earth with my mind, was wondering if i can steer the boulder?**
(Oh my god, that's amazing. Tell you what: you can't steer the entire boulder on your own; it's probably closer to 15 ft to a side. If Brutus can be healed, though... Taesn's memories tell you that his arcane core can bolster your abilities, much the way that Amaruve is using Caspian to power those big, big spells... You have a pool of healing energy, right? That won't Mend the damage, but it will stop Brutus from "dying" and get him back in the fight)
Imani Jones - Lv 11 Warlock of The Living City - Variant Human| Fate/False Revelation
Wick Stumbleduck - Lv 4 Lore Bard - Forest Gnome | Elustran Days
Khurah - Lv 3 Star Druid - Half-orc | Boats, Rocks, and Ruffians
Dale Swanson - User of the Sound of Silence Stand - Jojo's Bizarre Adventure: Sunset Investigations
Ayaci Vikerfjell - Lv 8 Rune Knight | Variant Human | Storm King's Thunder
Kyo unbuckles himself and climbs out the side of Brutus and almost collapses down on the ground, clutching his ribs. It hard to get a bearing on where the action is because the boulder they landed on has gone into a spin, and the area around them is orbiting too fast to spot their allies.
Kyo closes his eyes and tries to call out to Vasht for aid. He doesn't get a response in the way he was hoping but when he opens his eyes he notices his paw glowing slightly. He places his paw on his sore ribs and heals himself for 7. rising to his feet he reaches in to touch Tony for 8.
Kyo pauses for a moment and looks at the banged up ship, not knowing if this will work, he gives it a shot, touching the craft, attempting to heal it for 8.
**ooc: thats all my healing! lol it ain't much**
Kyo extends the amber staff toward Brutus and imparts Vast's blessing. The ship shudders, then sighs. The black smoke pouring from its vents slows and is replaced by clean white wisps of steam. It raises itself upon its jointed limbs, leaning forward to gently bump Kyo with its cockpit "head". One wing hangs limply at its side, and the cracks on its surface are unchanged. It's ready to help however it can, though.
Imani Jones - Lv 11 Warlock of The Living City - Variant Human| Fate/False Revelation
Wick Stumbleduck - Lv 4 Lore Bard - Forest Gnome | Elustran Days
Khurah - Lv 3 Star Druid - Half-orc | Boats, Rocks, and Ruffians
Dale Swanson - User of the Sound of Silence Stand - Jojo's Bizarre Adventure: Sunset Investigations
Ayaci Vikerfjell - Lv 8 Rune Knight | Variant Human | Storm King's Thunder
Kyo pats Brutus' 'head' area, "Good....boy..?" . Kyo looks over the craft, seeing how it might not be in any shape to fly any time soon. He hops back into his back seat, "Alright Tony, lets try something, I'm going to try to give you some propulsion, see if you can still steer this thing."
Kyo uses his sensors to find some nearby smaller boulders. and using Mold Earth, amplified by the ships core to grab some smaller boulders with his mind and slam them into the back of the one they are stranded on to push them forward. They go very slow at first but with each successive push they gain a bit more momentum.
**ooc: I know mold earth doesnt normally let me big up huge boulders, but the huge boulders aren't normally floating free in the air, lol let me know if you want me to roll anything for this**
(I like this way too much to say no. By tapping into Brutus' arcane core you can make it work. Some caveats:
1) The mobility of the boulder is the pits. You can move it around. But rolling maneuvers is simply not gonna happen.
2) Tony is out of the equation as far as steering is concerned. He might find a better job in the back using the sensor array
3) That being the case, I'm calling this a major concentration spell. If you want to cast anything else, you'll need to let the boulders drift aimlessly.
4) You DEFINITELY get inspiration for this, though!)
Imani Jones - Lv 11 Warlock of The Living City - Variant Human| Fate/False Revelation
Wick Stumbleduck - Lv 4 Lore Bard - Forest Gnome | Elustran Days
Khurah - Lv 3 Star Druid - Half-orc | Boats, Rocks, and Ruffians
Dale Swanson - User of the Sound of Silence Stand - Jojo's Bizarre Adventure: Sunset Investigations
Ayaci Vikerfjell - Lv 8 Rune Knight | Variant Human | Storm King's Thunder
**lol, okay lets maybe retcon that Tony and I swapped places. and he's giving me directions and im steering simply by having the boulders hit different parts of out main boulder?**
(perfect. You're maintaining contact with the core in lieu of the steering controls; it's a glowing white cube that has popped up; now partially exposed in the front console)
Imani Jones - Lv 11 Warlock of The Living City - Variant Human| Fate/False Revelation
Wick Stumbleduck - Lv 4 Lore Bard - Forest Gnome | Elustran Days
Khurah - Lv 3 Star Druid - Half-orc | Boats, Rocks, and Ruffians
Dale Swanson - User of the Sound of Silence Stand - Jojo's Bizarre Adventure: Sunset Investigations
Ayaci Vikerfjell - Lv 8 Rune Knight | Variant Human | Storm King's Thunder
(OOC Not entirely sure where Caspian left off. Best I can tell, we had a clear corridor through Path C.)
Perspicacious sees a path and takes it, trying to gain some ground and maybe get ahead and cut off the path of any enemy ships. Or at least to get a new vantage point and assess. "Guns hot, Amaruve, here we we go!"
Maneuvers: 18
(Caspian had just blasted aside a ton or two of boulders using a magically-boosted Gust of Wind. That cleared your path, and in conjunction with a stellar Maneuvers roll...)
Caspian zips straight ahead at full speed. Perspicacious and Amaruve, you round a building-sized boulder just a few seconds too late to witness Tony and Kyo (in Brutus) crashing through the ice wall. Instead, you see Jean and Cordelia (in Duncan) tearing after the hornet, all of whom are running a roughly perpendicular track in front of you.
(With your roll, AP, you have advantage on an attack roll + added sneak attack damage if you want to surprise the enemy vessel!)
Imani Jones - Lv 11 Warlock of The Living City - Variant Human| Fate/False Revelation
Wick Stumbleduck - Lv 4 Lore Bard - Forest Gnome | Elustran Days
Khurah - Lv 3 Star Druid - Half-orc | Boats, Rocks, and Ruffians
Dale Swanson - User of the Sound of Silence Stand - Jojo's Bizarre Adventure: Sunset Investigations
Ayaci Vikerfjell - Lv 8 Rune Knight | Variant Human | Storm King's Thunder