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2:00 PM
oh no :( looks like some electrical troubles coming up
power surges happening atm
 
:(
 
=[
 
hope nothing happens :/
 
God of Sparks and Jolts does not like this group.
 
btw, I'm doing random hate if y'all wanna create characters already
 
2:04 PM
Cool, I'll get started.
9d10
 
5
8
2
8
8
1
2
2
10
 
I'm going to need to track how much hate each god has for me, how much spite the gods I control have (in aggregate), and how much Oog I've got. That's it, right?
 
thats a lot of hate for Gab
 
9d10
 
7
5
3
10
3
7
2
10
6
 
2:06 PM
yes
 
d10
 
2d10
 
oops
 
2:07 PM
it's easier to just list the gods like so:
God of War
God of Death
God of the Gab
God of Stealth
God of Artefacts
Goddess of Movement
God of Strength
 
So 3, 3, 4, 3, 3, 3, 4
 
9d10
 
4
4
10
7
7
9
4
1
1
 
3d10
 
2:07 PM
9d10
 
6
1
1
9
7
3
10
9
9
 
and then just crush out a row of numbers when the ork dies
 
2243432
do we know anything about TDW?
Name: Dares Insult the Gods
 
[shrugs]
not orky! plus hate
 
d6
 
2:10 PM
 
random, or shall I assign them?
 
you assign
normally, if you had a name that specifically insults a single god, id assign it there
 
I kinda went with that insulting Gab, so I maxed that one out. Also Artefacts, then lifted all the 2s to 3s. So now it's 3353533.
 
Name: Grosk Bonecrusher
 
if he doesn't get on... do we play with 4 gods each?
 
2:13 PM
In addition to my axe I'd like to have a stinky sock.
 
or anyone spectating wanna join?
@nitsua60 yours or someone elses? (please say its yours)
 
I chopped off an elf's leg once and liked the sock. But I couldn't figure out how to get the foot out, so I just waited 'til it decayed away.
 
Nice!
 
it used to be white, now it's death
 
@daze413 It was white with finely-traced green vines embroidered on it, and little yellow flowers starting to bud.
Now the whole thing's a fairly-uniform necrotic yellow-green. With rust-colored bloodstains in places.
But I can't go to sleep without it.
 
2:18 PM
that is so endearing... you will die last
oh, that's not up to me XD
let's say... 5 more minutes? and we start choosing gods?
 
Ok
 
k
 
so the game really can't accommodate a player joining in the middle of the session, can it?
you have to start it and finish it
 
randomly reassign a pair of gods?
I mean, characters come and go...
so it'd be easy enough to work them in narratively.
 
@nitsua60 ok, but no first-round-pick gods
 
2:20 PM
k
 
i.e. if you picked death as your first, it cant be reassigned
 
Sure. I'll star my first pick.
@thedarkwanderer "you suffer another d6 points of Hate - the daze does not like to be kept waiting."
 
god "cards" shuffled IRL
 
d10 for first pick? high picks first?
d10
 
2:24 PM
d10
 
reroll ties =)
d10
 
competition is fierce
 
oops
d10
 
2:24 PM
6
 
(gotta say something in between identical die rolls)
 
(yeah, it took me a bit to figure that out)
 
let's start :)
@Miniman picks first
 
Why three turned up? Not two?
 
or
redo?
XD
I was thinking 3 players, sorry
 
2:27 PM
That's cool - I'll put a spite on Artefacts and pick up Gab
 
oh, ok
God of Artefacts(1) > God of Death(0)
 
Order's fine. It's just that if we follow the rules and do two-up, miniman will make a choice then the rest just get alternately assigned. (Because only one will be visible at each step.) So I was wondering if you'd seen that and decided to go with 3 so that there'd be some choice here.
I'll grab death and load up on Artefacts' spite.
 
that's interesting to note @jack aidley with
God of Artefacts(2) > God of Strength(0)
 
It'd mean that the two-player game starts with, at most, one spite among all gods. But it'll rack up fast, so I don't know how problematic that is or isn't.
 
@nitsua60 also, you give me too much credit/ I'm not that clever XD
 
2:30 PM
Ah, right. Orks! =D
 
Hmmm...I'll add another spite to artefacts and take strength
 
God of Artefacts(3) > God of Stealth(0)
 
I'll snag Artefacts.
 
God of Stealth(1) > Goddess of Movement(0)
 
i'LL PICK UP sTEALTH
 
2:32 PM
(reverse case isn't very stealthy)
 
Goddess of Movement(0) > God of War (0)
 
@nitsua60 (but it's very Orky-looking)
 
(I suppose it's an Ork's attempt at sTEALTH...)
Gimme War!!!
 
Means, @Miniman gets Movement with 1 spite
 
Slashings and Slayings and Crunchings and Munchings... all with my sock by my side!!!
 
2:34 PM
Cool!
 
God of War @nitsua60
God of Death @nitsua60
God of the Gab @Miniman
God of Stealth @Miniman
God of Artefacts @nitsua60
Goddess of Movement @Miniman
God of Strength @Miniman
did I get this ^ right?
 
yup
 
Looks good to me!
 
ok, so
The Bar'oog clan has been on a streak of good luck, lately. Having been led by this new young shaman, Chooyta'a, towards bountiful but weak halfling villages, the clan enjoyed pillaging unopposed for close to two months. And, now, they're ready to take on the big guns.
 
Big 'uns!!!
 
2:35 PM
Pointing toward a large lift bridge of gnomish make, spanning a great river, Chooyta'a says "There we strike next, the gods demand it of us..." he looks perplexed for a moment and adds "you worthless maggots..."
 
"Maggots? We eat now?"
 
Nom nom nom
[spits out handful of dirt] You said there were maggots!
 
"No- y... OK, Grosk"
"Ware the water. You know no ork can swim."
"I think this is madness, but I dare not insult the gods... now GO!"
@Miniman wanna go first?
 
I charge towards the bridge, keeping an eye out for tasty maggots along the way.
 
(nvm)
 
2:40 PM
@Miniman God of Stealth @Miniman, does he find maggots?
 
d10
 
Nope, no maggots.
 
and how does grosk feel about that?
 
He probably forgot about maggots, and is vaguely wondering why he's looking at the ground while charging.
 
2:41 PM
I realize I can juggle two scenes, but it might get chaotic when dice starts to roll. Wanna try doing it anyway? @nitsua60
 
Up to you - I'd say for now it works as one scene anyway?
 
Do you mean one scene (narratively), but run our two threads in parallel?
 
the latter.
 
Sure. Just shout if it gets to be flying too fast.
 
okok, so you were also charging?
 
2:43 PM
"I DARES INSULT THE GODS!!!" [I charge bridge]
[flailing axe wildly]
 
Grosk got to the gates first- there are wildlife abundant in the river, a bunch of unattentive gnome guards all of whom have taken their armor off- as they play cards
 
Are the gates open?
 
oh, sorry to mention, it's a big big bridge... like stone mostly, and wooden lift to allow boats to pass along the river
@Miniman yes, one of the guards just came out of it, bring what looks like oddly shaped dice in his hands
 
@nitsua60 the bridge looks like it could be big enough for abuilding. There are probably rooms and such inside
 
2:47 PM
@daze413 Cool, I attempt to cave in his skull with a blow from my mighty fist (and prove Bonecrusher isn't just a nickname)
 
I'll try to throw shove another gnome in the poisonous, deadly, life-sucking river.
 
@Miniman God of War @nitsua60, how hard is it to crush a gnome RPG player?
@nitsua60 God of Strength @Miniman, how hard is it to throw a gnomish RPG player?
 
@daze413 medium. Just a Gnome, but you have to punch down which is annoying and frustrating.
 
just realized, spite isnt going to be utilized much in 2 player games, right?
 
@daze413 Medium - they're light enough, but there's lots of stuff cluttering up the place and making it harder to get the gnome into the river.
 
2:49 PM
both yall roll
 
2d10
 
I fail
 
remember, if it fails, the adjudicating god dictates the outcome, on a success, the ork's player determines outcome
 
@Miniman Stinky, sneaky gnome isn't there when your fist is--follow-through has you sprawling.
(You hear a distant, god-like laughter.)
2d10
 
2:51 PM
6
5
 
@DiceService that looks like success, but given your hate..
 
(strength is only 3!) The gnome flies into the stinky, sneaky, mean water. I have sent that gnome to That Which Guards the Gate! [gnome is wading back to shore; since he wasn't wearing armor it's no problem]
 
@nitsua60 The gnomes shriek, tossing up the polyhedrals in the air as you both charge in
There are 2 more gnomes in front of you, but they both run into the gates in a hurry!
 
I charge in after them, yelling at the top of my voice.
 
I try to catch dice set in my sock. It'll make it lumpier when I sleep.
 
2:55 PM
@Miniman roll a Goddess of Movement
to see if you catch up
 
d10
 
Grosk makes it!
+1 Spite for @nitsua60
 
(did Strength gain a spite when I tossed that gnome?)
 
Ah, thanks
 
2:57 PM
@nitsua60 also, yes
 
@Miniman why me? You control Flailing of Limbs.
 
@nitsua60 it's no problem to catch them
 
@nitsua60 When you succeed on a check for your own god, every other player gains spite
 
ah, right.
 
@nitsua60 but you see Grosk and a couple other orks and goblins charge in while you do
 
2:58 PM
(so, this is a gatehouse that controls access to the bridge? Or a gatehouse beside the bridge? Can I get onto the bridge directly?)
 
@Miniman ok, so you caught up to the stink little gnomes, but the inside of the bridge is huge, full of cogs and wheels and belts.. it makes you dizzy
 
@daze413 I attempt to gum up the works by shoving a gnome into them.
 
@nitsua60 the former, yes, there are controls and cogs and machines which you dont understand
and a lifted bridge, when you get there
 
Obscurer of Things likes being the only one to obscure things: I'll spend 1 spite on the "gum up the works" attempt.
@daze413 Gotcha--bridge is up, we'd like it down to make our attack.
 
@Miniman this would normally be a stunt, but you cant stunt away from an opposing god, so let's roll God of War @nitsua60 here
 
3:01 PM
I'd adjudicate it easy, so with the spite it's a 2-roll, right?
 
Artefacts is also nitsua's not mine, if that makes a difference
2d10
 
this is to handle the gnome in question... separate roll will be needed for the obscuerer
 
Failure!
 
@Miniman with war? to be clear?
 
3:02 PM
@daze413 Yep
 
[a can of screws falls off an upper shelf and hits Grosk on the nose]
 
Ah, unless that spite was destined for the second roll
 
@nitsua60 I tend to make games really deadly, here, so let's say the gnome successfully fights off Grosk?
and maybe a Death roll is appropriate
 
kk screws get in your eyes, you stumble towards the very machinery... Death roll!!!
 
Difficulty?
 
3:04 PM
(i.e. no holding back punches, if you can describe an awesome way for an ork to die after a failure, go ahead)
yes, death is your domain @nitsua60
 
@daze413 The bridge isn't actively moving now, right?
 
no one's started it yet, no
but there are other cogs
that keep moving
despite no activity
 
then I'd say easy medium. (stuff is moving)
 
2d10
 
3:06 PM
Grosk dies, horribly mangled by machinery!
 
you hear the mechanism grooooaaaaannn, and start to shake
 
9d10 9d10 1d10
 
2
5
6
10
4
7
6
7
6
2
5
7
1
10
9
3
7
3
8
 
(oh the irony?)
 
While machinery's straining I'll try to chop at a belt or rope or chain with my axe.
 
3:07 PM
you wanna figure out how it works, first? @nitsua60
 
2d10
 
or... yolo?
 
Wow, the gods hate this Ork a lot less
And his name shall be...Manmangler!
 
@daze413 This is how it works: I chop something, the bridge goes down.
(The sock told me, in a dream.)
 
3:10 PM
@nitsua60 fair enough... XD let's go with God of Strength @Miniman
 
Hmmm...I'm gonna say hard - you need to hit something hard enough to break it, and it has to be the right thing
 
so roll 3 dice @nitsua60, unles you wanna spite it or add a goblin?
 
The Obscurer of Things spends a spite.
 
@nitsua60 the spite is with the player not the god. It just becomes a pool
 
Oh, can you use spite to make a roll easier?
 
3:12 PM
(the goblins feel pretty meta here--I'll stay away)
 
@Miniman only goblins can make a roll easier
 
@Miniman Oh, no. This just became a 4d10 roll =)
4d10
 
1
6
5
1
 
double-fail!
 
You break your axe on a machine, and the head comes flying towards you...
 
3:14 PM
@Miniman that's a God of Death @nitsua60 roll there
 
Is that auto-easy, because it's my god?
 
@nitsua60 yep
 
(feels wierd)
d10
 
I catch the axe and chuckle, thinking back to all those "Final Destination" moments that never quite seem to get my number.
 
3:16 PM
Manmangler charges in a bit behind the rest of the group. There are gnomes fighting orcs 2 gnomes for each standing orc... There seems to be an orc wedged in the cogs there too.
 
Manmangler notices the shuddering machinery, and comes up with an ingenious plan...I'll try shoving a goblin into the works!
 
@Miniman hm, not sure how this works... Weeee!! Nooooooooooooooooooooo! shouts the goblin
make a God of Strength (@Miniman) roll with 1 less dice? so autosucceed?
unless @nitsua60 spends a spite, I think you autosucceed there
 
@daze413 I think goblins only reduce spite or reduce a task to easy?
d10
 
@Miniman but it's already easy coz ur strength
 
3:20 PM
"Goblins cannot reduce the difficulty below one."
 
@daze413 I don't think using a goblin has to achieve something, right? XD
 
So by using goblins he's not mechanically changed the difficulty, but has probably narratively distanced himself from the consequences of a failure?
 
@Miniman right, I'm overthinking it! XD
so was that a success?
 
@nitsua60 Or possibly narratively prevented having to deal with a War roll (for a gnome) to achieve the same task
@daze413 Yep
The goblin is shoved, screaming, into the machinery.
 
the machinery shudders visibly... and steam spits out from some rusty tubes (that magically were there all along!, filling the room with steam
you hear one of the gnomes shout, "ahhh! get the chief here! Someone must take the boat!"
let's turn over to @nitsua60, you just caught the axe head, and suddenly steam fills the room, and you hear the gnome scream, what do you do?
 
3:24 PM
Wrapping my sock around its haft (to keep the sock safe in this fracas) I chop viciously at the pipes. The gnomes didn't like them breaking, so I do!
(Slashings and Slayings?)
 
this, a God of Death (@nitsua60) roll is appropriate as any more damage would cause the pipes to burst, singeing you :D
 
So, war then death, or just death?
 
just death
this game isnt fair :)
 
It occurs to me that this could get really hot, really fast. I chuckle at the thought, and swing anyway. Death has no grip on me!
d10
 
3:28 PM
(apparently I have no grip on the axe!)
Fail!
 
so you wanna narrate the singeing hot steam on you?
 
I though GM narrated failures?
 
no, the adjudicating god does, at least in my games
 
That Which Guards the Gate audibly chuckles: he's just been toying with Dares Insult the Gods all along, letting him think he was somehow invincible. The steam blasts into DItG's face, stripping skin, but leaving one eyeball. The last thing I see: the steam-cleaned sock, slipping through cracks in the floor, falling to the nasty, filthy, horrid river.
9d10 9d10 3d10
 
2
3
4
1
7
1
10
9
8
3
5
3
10
1
3
9
4
9
10
9
2
 
3:32 PM
4424423
 
ok, so @Miniman you find yourself in the still-steamy room. Just as one gnome bolts for the bridge, you see an ork singed to death beside you
 
This is Armwrestler.
 
@daze413 I flee the room - Manmangler wants no part of mysterious white stuff that kills orks.
 
@Miniman wise choice! do you go after the gnome?
or something else?
 
@daze413 Definitely! That way no one can say he was being cowardly XD
 
3:34 PM
@Miniman so, does Manmangler just kinda bolt toward the exit where they came from. Do a double take and turn the other way? XD
 
@daze413 Sounds good to me!
 
Anyway, the gnome is preparing to man a small raft, and hurriedly scrambling for a pole. you reach him as he prepares to wade into the water
 
(I'm going to have to duck out for five minutes sometime in the next twenty.)
 
@daze413 I'll try to hold him underwater till he drowns.
 
@Miniman this be God of War (@nitsua60) territory
how hard is it to drown a gnome holding a 10ft pole?
 
3:38 PM
I'd have said easy, but it does involve touching clean, running water. Medium.
 
2d10
 
Ooooh boy
Total failure
 
hahaha
narrate it, @nitsua60
 
You lost sight of the brightly-colored 10-ft pole in the crystalline waters of the river. Reaching for the gnome, you trip and just feel your fingers graze his shoulder as you fall, face first!!!, into the wretched water.
(From underwater you can't hear the laughs of the pointing goblins and orks on the top of the riverbank.)
 
3:41 PM
make a God of Death (@nitsua60), is appropriate here, I thinks
 
(But you can hear the chuckle of a Great Ork God, in the burbling of the water.)
Easy. You've been scrambling away from clean water your whole life.
 
XD
1d10
 
is that a success?
 
Success! Manmangler scrambles onto the shore and lies there, vomiting up everything he's eaten in the last week.
 
3:44 PM
That Which Guards the Gate is not amused. You can feel his spite dripping down your face in tiny aqueous rivulets.
 
after retching the contents of your stomach, you see the gnome is probably half way across the river already. Smoke issues from the building you were from, as well as steam from all of its cracks and crevices. A few gnomes run out of the building, as well.
to the side, doing nothing, are a a bunch of goblins
 
(Would now be a good time for a super-quick recess?)
 
it's almost to the end of the session, anyway, and it looks like I underestimated the time
(brain's not functioning well no more, is it under or over estimating the time)
 
It's definitely one of them, depending on which side you look at it from =)
 
let's finish up this action by @Miniman, then can we end the session?
 
3:49 PM
of course.
 
@daze413 It's almost 2am here and I have work tomorrow, so that sounds good to me XD
 
sneak in one more death =D
 
Also, which action?
 
5 mins ago, by daze413
after retching the contents of your stomach, you see the gnome is probably half way across the river already. Smoke issues from the building you were from, as well as steam from all of its cracks and crevices. A few gnomes run out of the building, as well.
also, free goblins to the side
@Miniman aww man, sorry about this again D: It's 12 MN here too
 
@daze413 All good, I knew what I was signing up too and it's not that much later than normal.
@daze413 Not sure what I should be doing here, but Manmangler stays well away from the killer white stuff.'
 
3:53 PM
@Miniman there are a bunch of gnomes runngi away, and some orks cheering inside, it looks like the battle is won... maybe.. one more shot at glory?
idk
 
Ok, I'll try to chase down a gnome and capture it so we can make it lower the bridge.
 
make a God of Strength (@Miniman) roll
 
d10
 
hooooo!
 
3:55 PM
Manmangler picks a gnome up by its ankles and dangles it upside down in front of his face.
Then he scowls at it and growls "Lower the bridge or I eat you from the feet up."
 
"whhooooaa! ooof! alright! alright! Just dont hurt me!"
 
Feet up! Feet up! Feet up! [chanting from the orkish sidelines]
 
the gnome lowers the bridge and you continue sacking the other side
 
Hooray!
 
the bridge is yours!
 
3:57 PM
Alright--gotta run. Good fun, I liked it and will probably play around more. Sorry to dash!
 
there was supposed to be, once you got the bridge, a boat coming to pass through
@nitsua60 it was fun! thanks for playing :D
 
@daze413 Thanks for running it! I had a great time, and look forward to playing this some more, hopefully with you!
 
@Miniman aw shucks :D it's always a blast with you guys
I should be getting sleep
TTFN
 
@daze413 Me too, talk to you later!
 
We'll fill in Mr. Aidley with some of our observations for 2player games tomorrow
IM OUT! PEACE!
 
4:02 PM
having watched a game, i want to play :D
 
@DoktorJ You should've asked to join in!
2 hours ago, by daze413
or anyone spectating wanna join?
 
4:14 PM
i think i joined after that
also, wanted to see how the game played :)
 

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