Yin: So kinda like a Tucker's kobold?
Igfig: Yay, Fortuna! Long time no see.
Pwot_Moose: That's where I got the idea
Frozenpie: 1d20
Fortuna: Frozenpie, 1d20: [12] = 12
Igfig: Always a delight.
Frozenpie: where are we and what are we dong?
Igfig: Well
Igfig: Last time ended with you finishing the Maestro's tests and her agreeing to train you
Brigsby: we just fought a bunch of rockers
Igfig: the spirits of rockers of ages past
Igfig: this is then followed by a lengthy training montage lasting about a month
Ace_Justice: holy shit
Ace_Justice: if a montage can get you ready for the big race in just 3 minutes
Ace_Justice: what can a month of montaging do
slim: It depends, did you have upbeat music?
Igfig: Well, the montage covers a month of time
Ace_Justice: I have music so upbeat it's floating in the clouds
Ace_Justice: playing power ballads to the birds and the bugs
Fortuna: Say please.
Igfig: how long the montage itself lasts... well, that's for you guys to decide
Frozenpie: "you're the best, you're the best, arooouuunnddd."
Frozenpie: "nothing's gonna keep you do-own"
BD: well
BD: We want to keep the audience interested
Igfig: (i.e. feel free to describe the montage)
BD: So maybe 1 minute
Ace_Justice: most of Ace's montage scenes is him hitting stuff with his axe
Ace_Justice: sometimes interns
Frozenpie: Barvo practices drumming on rocks, on steel, on silk, and on paper.
Igfig: During this time, you learn to play new instruments, or old instruments better
Frozenpie: learning to be harder than hard, and softer tehn soft
Brigsby: Brigsby flies through the clouds on wings of pure lightning
Igfig: and you also level up to level 8
Yin Thorn eats stuff.
Thorn: Whoopsie.
Frozenpie: Barvo drums to the beat of the stampeding buffalo, fast and powerful; and the beat of the forest itself, slow and steady
BD: BD plays the whatever it was with HIS FIST OF HEAVENLY ANGELIC FIRE
slim: Woo I think everyone is here
Ace_Justice: Ace sings like a choir of a thousand angels
Ace_Justice: "HULLALGALKCAAAPOOLKILLALAOOAAAAGGHAAAAKKGHAAAAK"
Barvo: BARRRVOO
Thorn eats some more.
Igfig: During this time, you live in the Maestro's complex
Igfig: which consists of small, well-disguised aboveground structures
Ace_Justice: are there cubicles?
Igfig: and extensive passages and chambers underground, a maze filled with wonders
Igfig: as in office cubicles? Or sleeping cubicles?
Ace_Justice: just
Ace_Justice: cubicles in general man
Igfig: Then yes
Ace_Justice: Okay
Igfig: As the montage comes to a close, you find yourselves back in the stone shrine thing, gathered around the Maestro once again
Igfig: "And now your training has come to an end.
BD: BD's Afro Fist has grown a beard
Ace_Justice: whoa
Ace_Justice: Ace has a mustache now
Ace_Justice: it is very strapping
Igfig: When first you came, your souls were muffled deep
Igfig: But now you sing forth loud and clear and and strong
Barvo: "BARRRRVOOOOOO!!!!"
Igfig: and with your music made your forebears proud
Igfig: Now soon you will go forth, back to
Brigsby: foreowlbears
Igfig: the world of men and elves, to spread your sound
Igfig: but first, as sign of your enlightenment
Igfig: to be your badges to the world, I give--"
Igfig: her next words are cut off by the sound of an alarm
Barvo: "ALARM!"
Ace_Justice: oh she was talking
Barvo: "ALARM!"
Ace_Justice: I thought ig was just being dramatic
Igfig: ha
Igfig: A proximity alarm from the control center
BD: Are you sure it's not me playing my instrument?
Igfig: It does sound very similar
Ace_Justice: yeah BD didn't improve much
Igfig: but if you're playing right now, then why are your hands in your pockets?
Igfig: wait, don'tanswer that
Ace_Justice: So where's this alarm telling us to go kill things
BD: Shhhh
Ace_Justice: *cracks knuckles*
Barvo hefts axe
Igfig: The alarm means something unknown has been detected in the airspace
Ace_Justice: oh
Ace_Justice: well let's go examine said unknown
Igfig: Sure. The Maestro leads you guys down to the control centre where the sensors are
Igfig: it's linked to the great thrumming instrument of which the island is composed
Igfig: detecting vibrations from all over the planet and solar system
Igfig: also, various small satellites and drones with video links and the like
Brigsby: What's it saying?
Igfig: anything else I'm forgetting, Slim?
slim: No, that sounds about right
slim: It rarely goes off, since they are so out there, but sometimes space junk sets it off
Igfig: The Great Instrument's readouts are displaying a very low energy signature
Igfig: and a brief one too
Brigsby: Alright, so who wants to go check it out?
slim: Oddly brief for slow moving space junk, but perhaps it wass a small piece.
Barvo: "Volunteer!"
Igfig: a fleeting glimpse of a smallish mass up in orbit
Ace_Justice: let's throw peanuts at it
Igfig: smallish as in like house-sized, not halfling-sized
BD: "Let's throw Ace at it."
Ace_Justice: deal
Ace_Justice: I'll chop it up
Brigsby: So how about we get in our ship and check it out? Dibs on the Array
Barvo: Dips on whatever does the murders
BD: "I need to shave my fist. It's growing a beard."
Igfig: it doesn't have the power signature of a ship, but then again it also disappeared off the scanner which is odd
Igfig: Oh, and is your ship even here? Isn't it still back on the Rock?
Thorn: Yeah we hitched a ride.
Brigsby: I don't remember
Barvo: It is still being built and comissioned by Heonius
Barvo: we got a ride with a suspicious character
Igfig: You came here on Shippy's jammer, yeah
Barvo: does the maestro have a boat?
Igfig: How were you planning on getting back? Was Shippy going to come pick you back up or something?
Ace_Justice: man that is SO shippy to leave us here
Igfig: Or did you want him to stay here with you?
Barvo: I think he would have left after a month
Igfig: yeah
Igfig: did you have a plan to get back to the Rock to rejoin the others, then?
slim: He probably planned to cme back after you contacted him
Barvo: yes, we were going to call him, or the new ship if it was ready
Igfig: Okay... contact him how?
Barvo: smoke signals
BD: With my fist
Barvo: we have some sort of far speaking deal
Igfig: eh?
Barvo: no idea
BD: 1d20+13 v AC to punch the lack of communications
Fortuna: BD, v AC to punch the lack of communications: [5] = 18
Igfig: Do you have a Sending ritual or something?
slim: Sorry, was talking to someone
Barvo: glad to see you have a proper bonus these days
Barvo: dunno
slim: Shippy gave you a one way radio
Ace_Justice: sorry I'm reading the new mspa updatre
Barvo: yeah, there you go
slim: That basically had you send out a beep that only he would get
Barvo: okay, let's say we did that this morning
Igfig: okay, that works
Barvo: since we knew we'd be leaving
Igfig: Sure
Ace_Justice: okay back
slim: red
Igfig: But I guess he hasn't arrived yet?
Ace_Justice: dammit shippy
slim: If they pressed it this morning, no
Ace_Justice: should we do a waiting montage?
slim: I imagine the journy takes the greater part of a day
Ace_Justice: We can play elevator music
Igfig: well, you do have this sensor anomaly thing still
Ace_Justice: oh yeah
Ace_Justice: anyone got a telescope?
Barvo: How far away was it?
Igfig: Around high orbit
BD: 1d20+13 to play music
Fortuna: BD, to play music: [17] = 30
Igfig: There are telescopes here, also the drones which are space-capable
Igfig: and I think the Maestro has an old shuttle somewhere
Barvo: Barvo comandeers a drone
Igfig: You play delightfully, BD
BD: I entertain everyone greatly
Ace_Justice: Well I'll go ahead and take a drone
Ace_Justice: so I can go space check it out
BD: I suppose I will as well
Igfig: okay
Ace_Justice: are these like mechs?
Igfig: more like a UAV
Ace_Justice: lame
Ace_Justice: but okay
Ace_Justice: let's do this shit
Igfig: the blip isn't on the sensors anymore, but you go to where it was detected
Barvo: right on
Ace_Justice: What do we find in the general area?
Igfig: This is Slim's jurisdiction here
Igfig: just waiting for him to come back...
slim: Ig is going to eat food
BD: "We've crossed over into Slim Jim territory guys. Be on the look out for improved monsters"
Igfig: Just grabbing somethng quick, back before you know it
slim: So you have gone outside? What is going on here?
Ace_Justice: me and BD are piloting drones
Ace_Justice: we have flown out to the location with the bing
Thorn: I believe som drones were taken out to scope out the anomaly detected spot.
Barvo: Barvo
Ace_Justice: and are examining the area
BD: Along wtih Barvo
Barvo: Barvo is flying
BD: Barvo, Ace, and I are droning
BD: I am playing beautiful music at the same time
slim: There is nothing there anymore
Ace_Justice: Do we have an idea which direction it went off in?
BD: "Welp. Time to head back."
Igfig: and back with sandwich ingredients
slim: The blip passed headed in the direction of the surface
Ace_Justice: we're in wide open space, so we can probably see somethign
Ace_Justice: oh
Ace_Justice: okay let's head down there BD
Ace_Justice: *pshoooo*
BD: *putt putt putt*
Ace_Justice: your drone sucks
slim: Once you reach the surface,
BD: "You shut up. It's classic."
Barvo: pshooooo
Ace_Justice: Me and Barvo got the rad drones
slim: It looks entirely normal
Ace_Justice: Bd is driving the hybrid model
BD: Mine looks cooler
slim: Except for a small blemish on the ground
Barvo: Investigate!!
BD: "Must be a zit. Someone pop it."
Ace_Justice: Could it have been space stuff that burned up in the atmosphere?
Barvo: Nature check!!!
Barvo: 1d20+11
Fortuna: Barvo, 1d20+11: [16] = 27
BD: BD PUNCHES THE BLEMISH RIGHT IN IT'S UGLY FACE
BD: 1d20+13
Fortuna: BD, 1d20+13: [5] = 18
Ace_Justice: two can play at that game barvo
slim: Barvo, the otherwise dim fellow,
Ace_Justice: and bd
Ace_Justice: 1d20+8 combined with
Fortuna: Ace_Justice, combined with: [11] = 19
slim: Concluded that the blemish was cause by the air a landing craft causes
Ace_Justice: 1d20+14 to slash the exact perfect spot of the blemish with my large axe
Fortuna: Ace_Justice, to slash the exact perfect spot of the blemish with my large axe: [5] = 19
slim: *caused
Igfig: the drone has an axe?
Ace_Justice: yes
Ace_Justice: Ace always ensures that everything he controls has an axe
Barvo: "A machine landed here."
Ace_Justice: don't axe me how though
Ace_Justice: HOO HOO HOO HOO HOO
BD: 1d20+13 slap
Fortuna: BD, slap: [5] = 18
Ace_Justice: miss
BD: 1d20+13 to punch the concept of missing Ace
Fortuna: BD, to punch the concept of missing Ace: [11] = 24
Ace_Justice: "Well where'd this machine go off too than"
Ace_Justice: also a miss
BD: Wrong. That's a hit
Ace_Justice: no
Ace_Justice: my ac is 26
BD: Yes but the concept's AC is not
Ace_Justice: whatever
Brigsby: shut up you two where did the thing go
Ace_Justice: are there signs on the ground anywhere that will lead us to where this thing went off to?
Ace_Justice: Ace's drone looks to the ground like an ace detective
Ace_Justice: and begins sleuthing 
Ace_Justice: which is to say 1d20+8 perception
Ace_Justice: 1d20+8 perception darnit
Fortuna: Ace_Justice, perception darnit: [17] = 25
BD: BD's drone turns invisible
BD: 1d20+13
Fortuna: BD, 1d20+13: [7] = 20
Igfig: The drones don't have manipulators or or anything, just visual... that's a pretty good check though, Ace
Ace_Justice: okay
Ace_Justice: so I am ust turning the drone around looking then
Igfig: one sec
Ace_Justice: BD's screen is 240p
Ace_Justice: me and Barvo have 1080p
Thorn walks over still eating a chicken leg like in the montage.
Igfig: kinda pixelly I suppose
Ace_Justice: what?
Igfig: the display
BD: 1d20+13 to steal Ace's Screen
Fortuna: BD, to steal Ace's Screen: [4] = 17
Ace_Justice: I was looking around the general area of the drone
Ace_Justice: by turning it around
Ace_Justice: stop with the stupid rolls
Igfig: yeah, yeah
slim: Ace
slim: With your check
Igfig: There does appear to be something here
slim: You see a shimmering outline of something a short ways away
Ace_Justice: like some kind of a cloaking device?
Ace_Justice: 1d20+6 history
Fortuna: Ace_Justice, history: [12] = 18
BD: I charge off towards it totally beating Ace there
slim: Perhaps.
Igfig: a sort of illusionary camo netting
Igfig: you believe
Ace_Justice: to see if I remember anything about cloaking devices in operation today or how they look when in use
Barvo: I charge it
Igfig: since for the most part it just looks like a normal outcropping of rock
Barvo: with my drone
Barvo: ramming speed!
Ace_Justice: are our drones equipped with anything"
Ace_Justice: ?
Igfig: your drone bounces off of something
Ace_Justice: OH GOD BARVO
Ace_Justice: fucking
Ace_Justice: okay
Ace_Justice: ram it too
Igfig: that doesn't seem like rock
BD: Wait, I charged it first
Barvo: I jump out and try to land on the cloaked object
Barvo: check?
Igfig: jump out? It's a drone
Igfig: You guys are in the command center
Barvo: ohhh
BD: He's jumping out of the spaceship obviously
Barvo: right
Ace_Justice: yeah I think barvo is mistaking it for a mech
Ace_Justice: yeah
Barvo: okay
Barvo: hmm
Igfig: this thing isn't too far from where you are though
Ace_Justice: hmm
slim: People who charged it, either run into or land on what seems like solid air
Ace_Justice: can we send our speeders or something?
Ace_Justice: Like a recon team
Barvo: can barvo run there?
BD: Can BD just punch a hole in time and space and step there?
Igfig: it's on the far side of the island, which isn't too far
Ace_Justice: how far distance wise
Ace_Justice: ?
slim: Um...
Igfig: Couple miles
Ace_Justice: okay I don't think we can just run there
slim: I am terrible are distances.
Ace_Justice: let's fly the ship over
Igfig: bout an hour's walk, or a few minutes in the shuttle
Ace_Justice: shuttle it is!
Ace_Justice: angle us towards adventure!
Barvo: Barvo sketches on the shuttle, hanging from the underside
Ace_Justice: so did our team get into the shuttle and fly there than?
Igfig: Looks like you did, yeah
Thorn: Yeah, guess I drove.
Thorn: 1d20+14
Fortuna: Thorn, 1d20+14: [8] = 22
Thorn: And I didn't come anywhere near crashing this time.
Ace_Justice: TREEEEES
Ace_Justice: wait why did I say that
Ace_Justice: I said that to myself 
Thorn: "They're nowhere near us!"
Ace_Justice: then for some reason typed it
Ace_Justice: anyways what do we find when we get there
slim: When you get there,
slim: Upon closer inspection you see that there is definately something there,
slim: What, you are still not entirely sure
Barvo: hit it with my axe.
Ace_Justice: I also hit it
Ace_Justice: no wait
BD: Punch it with Barvo's Axe
BD: 1d20+13
Fortuna: BD, 1d20+13: [7] = 20
Igfig: Did you want the Maestro to come with you guys, or is she okay to stay back at the base?
Ace_Justice: I swing barvo to give barvo swinging a stronger hit
Ace_Justice: 1d20+9 strn
Fortuna: Ace_Justice, strn: [3] = 12
Ace_Justice: shit
slim: Your axe seems to glance off the air
BD: What about my fist
Barvo: Barvo's axe does not glance of things
slim: Making a clanging noise
Barvo: 1d20+16
Fortuna: Barvo, 1d20+16: [2] = 18
BD: "Barvo your axe is broken."
slim: There is a small blemish in midair now
Ace_Justice: hmm
slim: Like smudged glass
Barvo: hit it again
Barvo: hit it again
Barvo: 1d20+16
Fortuna: Barvo, 1d20+16: [4] = 20
Ace_Justice: maybe we can sort of cut a hole through?
Ace_Justice: 1d20+13 to hit it
Fortuna: Ace_Justice, to hit it: [11] = 24
slim: More smudges, and the first seems to be fading.
Barvo: hmm
Barvo: new tactic seems to be required
Barvo breathes in deeply...
Ace_Justice: hmm
Barvo: "OOOOOOOOOOOOOPPPPPPPPPEEEENNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN!!!!!!!!!!!"
Ace_Justice: let's rock it?
Brigsby: Some kind of technology, maybe I can shortcircuit it with some lightning?
Ace_Justice: possibly
Thorn: Does anyone have any colored liquid we could pour on it?
Brigsby: 1d20+10
Fortuna: Brigsby, 1d20+10: [4] = 14
Ace_Justice: actually
Thorn: Then we could figure out the shape.
Ace_Justice: I do
Ace_Justice: *pulls out a bottle of lemonade*
Ace_Justice: yummy
BD: "We can spill blood on it."
Thorn: "I'm all out of canned elf and body parts."
Ace_Justice: but where can we get so much blood on a monday!
BD: "Are there any small children present?"
Igfig: That sounds like a reasonable idea... well, dunno bout the blood, but pouring liquid stuff
slim: OK, everyone within 20 feet of the object make a fortitude save
Thorn: 1d20+8
Fortuna: Thorn, 1d20+8: [11] = 19
Ace_Justice: 1d20+12
Fortuna: Ace_Justice, 1d20+12: [19] = 31
Ace_Justice: oh my
BD: 1d20+11
Fortuna: BD, 1d20+11: [19] = 30
slim: As a blinding light goes off all around you and there is a bang like a thunderbolt in your ears.
Ace_Justice: haw
BD: I shake my fist at Ace
slim: Ace doesn't even close his eyes.
BD: It's beard glares at ace
Ace_Justice: I put on sunglasses
slim: BD is entirely unphased as well
Barvo: 1d20+7
Fortuna: Barvo, 1d20+7: [3] = 10
Barvo: hmm
Ace_Justice: barvo screams and runs away like a baby
slim: Anyone who got over 15 retains consciousness 
Ace_Justice: oh shit
Barvo: I think that's my fort save anyway
Ace_Justice: ahahaha
slim: Those who got under are stunned
Ace_Justice: it's your defense - 10 isn't it?
Thorn: Yup.
Barvo: oh
Ace_Justice: yar
Barvo: one sec then
Barvo: yeah, that was right
slim: Not down or damaged, just stunned
Barvo: I am out then
Barvo: save ends?
Ace_Justice: okay
Ace_Justice: poor bar-bar
slim: So Barvo is a little out of it for a while
slim: Like a gunshot went off next to his head
Brigsby: I was more than 20 feet away from it, what happens to me?
slim: You watch as there is a loud bang and a blinding light emitting from the object for an instant
Brigsby: okay
Ace_Justice: did you catch what the shape was?
slim: But as soon as it started, everything is as it was.
Ace_Justice: oh
Ace_Justice: okay then
Ace_Justice: hmm
BD: "Cool."
Ace_Justice: hmm
Ace_Justice: maybe we should feel around it for some kind of indentation, like a door or something
slim: It was basically a flash grenade. Effects linger, the actual explosion does not
Ace_Justice: 1d20 to feel
Fortuna: Ace_Justice, to feel: [4] = 4
Ace_Justice: I fail to feel
Ace_Justice: I kick a puppy
slim: You find yourself grabbing at the ground
slim: It is certainly what you are standing on
BD: 1d20 to punch the idea of camo
Fortuna: BD, to punch the idea of camo: [17] = 17
BD: 1d20+13
Fortuna: BD, 1d20+13: [19] = 32
Ace_Justice: well good thing I figured that out
Ace_Justice: huh
BD: woah
BD: Cool
Ace_Justice: you just stole two rolls that could have been used productively
slim: The entire object flickers from the punch
BD: Awesome
Ace_Justice: huzzah
BD: What is it
slim: The shape of a small spacecraft appearing for a few blinks of an eye
Brigsby: it's not like they would have been used productively anyway
Ace_Justice: true
Ace_Justice: hmm
Brigsby: you'd have used them to touch a rock or something
Ace_Justice: wow I am about to try this
Ace_Justice: can I put my hand on it and sort of sense the magicks with the arcana?
Ace_Justice: I don't use arcana much
Ace_Justice: 1d20+6 to try it
Fortuna: Ace_Justice, to try it: [16] = 22
Ace_Justice: to sense any magicks inside
slim: No magicks detected.
Thorn: "Did anyone see the entrance when it flickered?"
slim: It seems techy in nature
Ace_Justice: oh okay
Ace_Justice: that helps a little
BD: "I can punch it again if you want."
slim: Not unlike your robot friend
Thorn: "Do it."
Brigsby: Thorn, are you good at nature?
Ace_Justice: where is DAVE?
BD: 1d20+13 to punch it again
Fortuna: BD, to punch it again: [5] = 18
Barvo: how long before I come around?
Thorn: Nope I am not.
Brigsby: Is anyone?
BD: Me and Ace
Brigsby: Someone use Nature or Perception to look for tracks
slim: Barvo you are all better now
BD: 1d20+10 insight to determine what it is
Fortuna: BD, insight to determine what it is: [5] = 15
Thorn: 1d20+11 perception to spot the entrance or find any tracks leading from it.
Fortuna: Thorn, perception to spot the entrance or find any tracks leading from it.: [17] = 28
slim: Just a bit of ringing in your ears
slim: Thorn
Barvo: 1d20+11 nature
Fortuna: Barvo, nature: [9] = 20
slim: During the flicker, you noticed the outline of what may be a cockpit
Ace_Justice: go punch through the glass
slim: Which opens forward, and anyone leaving would have been headed for the command center
Brigsby: I'm pretty sure it's just a ship that the owner left behind, which is why it's hidden. Why would he just be sitting on the ground in the cockpit
Barvo: sooo
Barvo: command center?
Thorn: Right, so we fly the shuttle back and keep a lookout on the ground for anyone.
BD: Are we in a garden of eden?
Brigsby: Punching it over and over won't solve anything, so let's go to where the pilot went
Brigsby: the command center
Barvo: barvo in launcing position
BD: Is there a one-eyed woman with a fig leaf trapped beneath a log somewhere?
Ace_Justice: I sense a futurama reference
BD: Your senses are correct
Ace_Justice: anyways
Ace_Justice: wait
Ace_Justice: maybe while we're wasting time here
Brigsby: whatever happened to reference damage
Ace_Justice: the command center is under attack
Brigsby: which is why we're going back
Ace_Justice: or being infiltrated or whatever
Ace_Justice: okay let's make a break for the command center then
Brigsby: Yeah
BD: "Break down the walls barvo"
Barvo: that is what we were already doing
Brigsby: or just go in the door
Ace_Justice: but don't knock out the fourth one
Ace_Justice: we need that
Barvo: okie dokie
Thorn: Right, so as I said, back on the shuttle to fly back, but keep our eyes on the ground for anyone hoofing it.
Ace_Justice: okay
Ace_Justice: her might have a cloak
Barvo: I am in launching position
Ace_Justice: do we have any scanners?
Ace_Justice: we could use heat sensors to look around as we fly
Igfig: Basic sensors, yeah
Ace_Justice: okay let's fire one up
BD: "Or we could just charge in like madmen"
Ace_Justice: (GET IT? FIRE! BECAUSE HEAT SENSORS!)
BD: That is stupid and does not make sense
Igfig: nothing obvious to detect
Ace_Justice: it makes sense
Ace_Justice: also because I didn't mean to make that joke
Ace_Justice: but anyways, let's keep the sensors on as we go back to the base
Ace_Justice: so
Ace_Justice: transition?
Igfig: after a few minutes, you're back at the base
slim: There is no detection of life the whole was back to the command center
slim: *way
BD: I get behind barvo
Barvo: Barvo draws axe
Ace_Justice: I sit on barvo's shoulders
Barvo: advance toward command center
Ace_Justice: and drape a trench coat over us
Ace_Justice: so we are more intimidating
Barvo: looking around warily
Barvo: how tall is ace?
Ace_Justice: uuhh
Ace_Justice: 5'12''
BD: It's a reaaaaaaaally long trenchcoat
slim: I thought Ace was a short guy
Barvo: Cause barvo is 8 feet tall
Ace_Justice: so uh
Ace_Justice: 6 feet
Ace_Justice: well
Ace_Justice: looks like a 14 foot tall man in a trench coat is in the command center then
Ace_Justice: go barvo go
Ace_Justice: I'll talk us through stuff
BD: I jump onto their back
Ace_Justice: oh god
slim: Is there room?
Ace_Justice: like climb up onto our shoulders, or just like a piggy back ride
BD: Piggy back ride
Barvo: we are a large mass of...flesh
Ace_Justice: okay that should be fine then
Ace_Justice: Barvo is strong enough to carry us both
Barvo: easily
BD: I'm your punching backpack of death
Ace_Justice: go barvo go
Ace_Justice: you're like c-3p0
Barvo: well, I suppose I am technically encumbered now.
Ace_Justice: ahaha
slim: OK, back inside, you find nothing strange at first glance.
BD: Bull crap. I'm like Black Dynamites Revolver
slim: Everything is as you left it
Ace_Justice: hmmm
BD: Never used, but intimidating none the less
Ace_Justice: 1d20+8 perception to see or hear anything 
Fortuna: Ace_Justice, perception to see or hear anything : [11] = 19
slim: TOO QUIET!
Ace_Justice: out of place
Ace_Justice: OH SHIT
slim: Kidding
BD: SUDDENLY NINJA'S
Ace_Justice: oh
Ace_Justice: suddenly ninja is!
Barvo: "It is too quiet. Where is the planet noise?"
slim: Anyway Ace, you notice something is out of place, something is abnormal
Ace_Justice: how abnormal
BD: A shruiken flys through the room, decapitating every ninja
Ace_Justice: and where
slim: But can't put your finger on what
Ace_Justice: hmm
Ace_Justice: "there's something odd here"
Ace_Justice: "Can't tell what though"
BD: "I threw that crap before I walked in the room!"
BD: 1d20+13 to hide
Fortuna: BD, to hide: [19] = 32
BD: I hide in the hidiest spot
slim: BD stop stealing all the good rolls, man
Ace_Justice: black dynamite vanishes
slim: Nowhere to be found.
Ace_Justice: Barvo poke your eyes out the front of the coat and take a look around
BD: Nonsense, I'm just preparing for the inevitable combat
Barvo: 1d20+4 perception
Fortuna: Barvo, perception: [2] = 6
Ace_Justice: nice one barvo
Barvo: I see a coat
BD: 1d20+10 to look around
Fortuna: BD, to look around: [1] = 11
BD: I see my fingers
Ace_Justice: oh my god bd
slim: Barvo, you are holding an axe
Ace_Justice: you bastard
Barvo: good
BD: Because they are over my eyes
Thorn: Kinda wishing I took that Gnoll Tracking feat, ah well.
BD: Hiding me from everyone else
Barvo: Barvo is in his natural state
Ace_Justice: hmm
Ace_Justice: I pull out my axe
Ace_Justice: and hold it out
Ace_Justice: Barvo spin around
Barvo: okay
Ace_Justice: we might hit something invisible
Thorn: 1d20+11 perception to sniff out anything suspicious.
Fortuna: Thorn, perception to sniff out anything suspicious.: [11] = 22
Barvo: Barvo spin!
Barvo: 1d20+11 athletics
Fortuna: Barvo, athletics: [20] = 31
Brigsby: I walk right the fuck in
Ace_Justice: fuck yes
slim: Thorn smells something.
Ace_Justice: we're like an axe tornado
Barvo: we wheel around the room
slim: Something that wasn't here before.
Barvo: tasmanian devil style
Ace_Justice: nothing can stop us
Igfig: nothing appears to be trying to stop you, alas
Ace_Justice: shoot
Barvo: We hit a wall
Barvo: and it does not stop us
Ace_Justice: so maybe it's not anything invisible
Ace_Justice: Are the staff still around?
Ace_Justice: Or are they all mysteriously and ominously gone
Brigsby: I'll go to that Sensory Control Center
slim: It smells....
slim: Like stealth
BD: Must be me
Ace_Justice: or are they cut in half because we just spun around with an axe 
Thorn: Right, Barvo, slash all the air please.
Barvo: 2 axes
Ace_Justice: oh yeah
slim: but it is a fading scent
BD: Dont' hit me
Barvo: Barvo slashed all of the air
Barvo: next room!
Ace_Justice: they must be moving deeper in after noticing we are useless
Ace_Justice: Go bloodhound mode thorn
Ace_Justice: sniff that shit out
Barvo: brb
BD: BD will continue to move in the shadows
Brigsby: Are the sensors saying anything different from last time?
Ace_Justice: which sensors?
Brigsby: The ones in the main sensor control room that I went to while you guys were doing your axe tornado thing
Ace_Justice: aah
Ace_Justice: Slim? Ig?
slim: The Maestro walks in to see what all the commotion was about
slim: Sees the three of you under the coat twirling axes
slim: And sighs
BD: Nuh uh. I'm not htere
Ace_Justice: "hullo!"
BD: I'm invisible
Barvo: "Maestro, there may be an intruder!"
slim: The sensors are saying nothing
BD: 1d20+10 to determine if it's the real Maestro
Fortuna: BD, to determine if it's the real Maestro: [9] = 19
slim: It is the real one
BD: I'll continue hiding anyway
Ace_Justice: only maestro could rock a jacket like that
slim: But you determine there is something different about this one.
Brigsby: Maestro, there may be an intruder but we have no way of knowing because we were masking all the sounds of escape he might have made by twirling madly at everything with axes
BD: "There's something different about this Maestro"
Ace_Justice: "All in all not our best plan"
slim: Or rather, this time (not this one)
Ace_Justice: "Hey maestro"
Brigsby: There's nothing different about this Maestro
Ace_Justice: "Could you show us a quick guitar solo?"
slim: The Maestro plays a short, badass solo
Ace_Justice: "Thank you"
BD: "There's just something off about her though."
Ace_Justice: hmm
Ace_Justice: let's kill her
Barvo: wait just a moment
slim: Almost like something is following her movements
Thorn hits Ace on the head.
Brigsby: Are there any escape pods or something that I could use to just jettison myself into space with
slim: Making her look different
BD: "BEHIND HER"
Barvo: Maestro! behind you!!!
slim: No escape pods
BD: I'm still hidden by the way
Barvo: I charge the shimmer!
Ace_Justice: it's the puppet master!
Ace_Justice: me and barvo charge it apparently
BD: 1d20+10 to spot whatever is causing her to look different
Fortuna: BD, to spot whatever is causing her to look different: [18] = 28
Barvo: 1d20+16
Fortuna: Barvo, 1d20+16: [19] = 35
slim: Wow, BD and barvo
BD: I'm looking
slim: You both notice what is different
Ace_Justice: 1d20+15 I guess too since we are both charging
Fortuna: Ace_Justice, I guess too since we are both charging: [7] = 22
Ace_Justice: aaww
slim: There is a small red dott dancing on her forehead
Ace_Justice: HOW DID WE NOT NOTICE
BD: Oh what the heck
Ace_Justice: I fly off barvo's shoulders and tackle her to the groun
Ace_Justice: d
Barvo: tackle the maestro!
Ace_Justice: 1d20+9 acrobatics
Fortuna: Ace_Justice, acrobatics: [15] = 24
Ace_Justice: it is very dramatic
Brigsby: how does a small red dot equal "this person looks shimmery"
BD: 1d20+10 to spot the origin of the red dot
Fortuna: BD, to spot the origin of the red dot: [16] = 26
BD: It must be a magic red dot
slim: Ace flips off Barvos shoulders, through the air tackling the maestro
BD: Or she's become muslim
Brigsby: that's not
Brigsby: that's
Brigsby: ugh
Igfig: that's not how that
Igfig: uh
Ace_Justice: yeah delf
Ace_Justice: just
Barvo: wow
Ace_Justice: uh
Ace_Justice: yeah
Ace_Justice: MOVING ON
Barvo: hahaha
Barvo: racism.
Igfig: yes
BD: Hahahaha. Awkwardness for everyone
Ace_Justice: anyways
Ace_Justice: my tackle
slim: The dot is now focused on he far wall and BD traces the dot to the corner of the ceiling
Barvo: Hurl myself at it!!
Ace_Justice: I throw my axe
BD: It's a security camera isn't it
Ace_Justice: oh god barvo
Barvo: 1d20+11 athletics!
Fortuna: Barvo, athletics!: [15] = 26
Ace_Justice: 1d20+10 to throw the axe
Fortuna: Ace_Justice, to throw the axe: [9] = 19
Ace_Justice: my axe is a massive two handed great axe by the way
BD: Guys, imagine that mess that is happening right now
Barvo: I will catch ace's axe and swing both of our greataxes at the same time.
Ace_Justice: yes
Ace_Justice: do it
BD: We charge in, Maestro walks in, Ace tackles her, Barvo throws himself at a corner, and Ace throws an axe behind him
Ace_Justice: also the tornado
Brigsby: who could forget the tornado
BD: Is there a cartoonish dust cloud surrounding our fighting?
BD: And there it is
Barvo: one must assume so
BD: The tornado
slim: The axe sails though the air and sinks into the wall/ceiling, there is a woosh as it passes close to something
Igfig: Barvo leaps high...
Ace_Justice: whoa whoa slim
Ace_Justice: Barvo is catching the axe
Barvo: what about the massive barvo
Igfig: make an attack roll
Brigsby: I'm imagining Brigsby positively crackling with passive aggressive anger lightning
Barvo: 1d20+16
Fortuna: Barvo, 1d20+16: [19] = 35
Ace_Justice: YES
BD: "If barvo misses, fill the room with lightning brigsby!"
slim: LIKE THE MIGHTY THOR HIMSELF!
BD: Oh geez
Igfig: oh wow, okay
BD: This is like the most awesome mess ever
Ace_Justice: yes
Barvo: Barvoooooo!!
Ace_Justice: Barvo caught my axe
slim: OK what were you attacking with?
BD: BD is hiding in the shadows this entire time commanding everything
Ace_Justice: and swung both at the shadow
Barvo: 2 greataxes
Barvo: 1 in each hand
Barvo: as a charge
slim: They connect with whatever was/is there.
Ace_Justice: a wall
Barvo: very little left I think
slim: It lets out a loud hissing noise
BD: "Just a snake. Everyone calm down."
Igfig: roll damage... 2[W]
slim: And the wound that Barvo caused now starts moving rapidly around the room
slim: Yes, roll damage
Igfig: it zags across the ceiling
BD: 1d20+13 acrobatics to jump out of hiding when the thing goes past me and punch it into oblivion
Fortuna: BD, acrobatics to jump out of hiding when the thing goes past me and punch it into oblivion: [6] = 19
Barvo: 2d12+1d6+10
Fortuna: Barvo, 2d12+1d6+10: [9, 3, 1] = 23
BD: Would I get CA from being hidden?
slim: I think so, yes
BD: 1d20+15 PUNCH IT
Fortuna: BD, PUNCH IT: [4] = 19
Ace_Justice: hahahha
BD: BAh
BD: Curse you fortuna
BD: I was a little late and hit the floor
slim: That's what you get for wasting those good rolls
Igfig: hmm
Ace_Justice: bastard
Igfig:  1d20+14
Fortuna: Igfig,  1d20+14: [15] = 29
Ace_Justice: uh oh
Ace_Justice: the dm is hmming
BD: I land on Ace
Igfig: BD, you leap at it but it's moving really unpredictably
Igfig: and you sail past onto Ace
Ace_Justice: grah
slim: Also the dot is gone
BD: We are just curshing the Maestro right now
Ace_Justice: 1d20+9 to explode out from under him like in the matrix
Fortuna: Ace_Justice, to explode out from under him like in the matrix: [14] = 23
Barvo: I throw ace's axe back to him.
Igfig: Sure, you push BD off
slim: BD you can make a reflex save to land in a badass pose (you'll be fine either way, just an option)
Ace_Justice: he goes flying across the room
BD: I shall
BD: 1d20+11
Fortuna: BD, 1d20+11: [20] = 31
Ace_Justice: oh my god
BD: I MAKE THE COOLEST POSE
slim: Holy tits
Ace_Justice: there is an explosion behind him
Ace_Justice: sunglasses land on his face
Brigsby: I summon my familiar
BD: Keep in mind youa re behind me Ace
Ace_Justice: and does the most badass pose ever seen in history
slim: You go flying back, but kick off the wall
BD: Can I tackle the thing
slim: Rolling forward in midair and landing on both feet
Ace_Justice: millenia from now, men will still weep at the story of the badass pose
slim: Striking a pose and winking
slim: Somewhere, a lady swoons
slim: Also there is a twinkling sound coming from the wink.
slim: Anyway,
Igfig: Unfortunately no, I don't think you can tackle it again
Ace_Justice: oh my god and black dynamite did that
BD: Darn
slim: This thing is still right pissed
Igfig: it's bloody fast
Ace_Justice: now do your static explosion thing brigs
BD: Does my Awesome pose cause it to pause for a second
Igfig: Sure
BD: "KILL EVERYTHING WITH YOUR LIGHTNING BRIGS"
Igfig: Just long enough for Brigs to unleash the storm
Brigsby: I'll do that
Ace_Justice: we are all riding on you brigs
slim: CALL UPON THE POWER OF THOR!
Ace_Justice: BRIGSBY
Brigsby: Dancing Lightning
Barvo: Barvo blesses your srike!!
Brigsby: Who's adjacent to it
Ace_Justice: no one
Ace_Justice: well
Ace_Justice: thorn would be
Igfig: it's up on the ceiling
Ace_Justice: wait no
Brigsby: Are Ace and BD adjacent to it?
Brigsby: that's the main question
Ace_Justice: errmm
Ace_Justice: I am aways a little
Igfig: they're a ways below it
Ace_Justice: so not really no
Brigsby: okay
Brigsby: so in that case
Ace_Justice: don't leave us hanging man
Brigsby: 1d20+10
Fortuna: Brigsby, 1d20+10: [7] = 17
Brigsby: nope
Brigsby: vs Fort if it matters
Ace_Justice: maybe the shock causes it to fall?
Igfig: Yeah, afraid no hit there
Brigsby: cool
Ace_Justice: where me and BD can tackle it
slim: You see some static run along its figure
slim: But it doesn't even slow down
Ace_Justice: shoot
slim: As it starts moving towards the dorr
slim: *door
Ace_Justice: not the dorr!
Barvo: Close the door!
Igfig: it looks vaguely humanoid, thin and angular, with a short tail
BD: DRAGONS TAIL
BD: 1d20+13 v Ref
Fortuna: BD, v Ref: [20] = 33
Ace_Justice: brigs you're the only one still at the door
Ace_Justice: holy shit
Igfig: what, BD?
Ace_Justice: that's an attack
BD: I'm attack it and swapping places
Ace_Justice: we're not in combat yet
Ace_Justice: so I don't think you can just do that
Brigsby: I'm actually in a completely different room but I went along with the lightning thing because no one was listening anyway
Ace_Justice: oh
Igfig: oh
Igfig: this is very chaotic, yes
Ace_Justice: I thought that was thorn who was in the other room
slim: RETCON!!
Brigsby: Thorn was with you
Ace_Justice: oh
Ace_Justice: darn
Igfig: and as excellent as that attack roll is, the thing actually isn't within reach
Thorn: Or something.
BD: Crap
Ace_Justice: bd
Ace_Justice: punches the ground
Ace_Justice: or the wall
Ace_Justice: with that attack
Ace_Justice: so the vibrations slow it down or knock it off
Igfig: has anybody not acted yet in all this?
Brigsby: Yeah, I just went somewhere else when you guys started the tornado
slim: Thorn?
BD: Have my attack knock it down or something
slim: Thorn hasn't done much
Brigsby: Thorn was sniffing around for it
Ace_Justice: I use what's her face as a step to jump up to the roof after it
Ace_Justice: trying to grab on and pull it down
Ace_Justice: 1d20+10 acrobatics
Fortuna: Ace_Justice, acrobatics: [4] = 14
slim: Ceiling
Ace_Justice: darn
BD: Slim, can Ace have my 20?
slim: You fall short and lsnd clumsily
slim: Ig. Can he?
Igfig: How about 
BD: Since my attack wasn't valid
Thorn: Um.
Igfig: you switch places with Ace instead, using the momentum to hurl him farther
BD: YES
Igfig: allowing Ace to reroll
Ace_Justice: awesome
BD: I punch ace and swap places with him, my punch throwing him further
Ace_Justice: does that mean he punched me/
Ace_Justice: ?
Ace_Justice: ouch
BD: Now you're thinking with portal punches
Ace_Justice: 1d20+9+1+1 bonuses are for running start and for the added portal momentum
Fortuna: Ace_Justice, bonuses are for running start and for the added portal momentum: [4] = 15
Ace_Justice: ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME
BD: .....
slim: Really, guy?
BD: Fortuna I am going to beat you
slim: Gotta do some stuff. Back in a few.
Ace_Justice: I go flying and smash into barvo
Ace_Justice: toppling him over
Barvo: timmbeerrrrr
BD: I facepalm"
Ace_Justice: this whole scene would be hilarious if animated
Barvo: indeed
BD: 1d20+13 Athletics to run after it
Fortuna: BD, Athletics to run after it: [5] = 18
Igfig: the figure scuttles upside-down out the door 
Ace_Justice: oh my god
Thorn: I block off the door then, I'm a big gnoll.
Ace_Justice: I run so fast I go up the wall and run upside down after it out the door
Ace_Justice: 1d20+12
Fortuna: Ace_Justice, 1d20+12: [19] = 31
Thorn: not as big as Barvo but hey.
Ace_Justice: FUCK YES
BD: AHAHAHA
Barvo: 1d20+11 to give chase
Fortuna: Barvo, to give chase: [18] = 29
BD: Ace and BD take off after it
Igfig: Dammit Ace, you're taking way too many actions
BD: Head to head
Ace_Justice: me and barvo are on the roof
Brigsby: why are you rolling to take chase
Brigsby: that's a move action
Igfig: uhmm
Brigsby: you don't roll for those
Thorn: So I block off the door, and prepare to stab it when it gets near.
Ace_Justice: athletics
BD: It already left Thorn
Igfig: Okay THorn, give that a try
BD: Or not
Igfig: It leaves after Thorn's action
Thorn: I'll use Ambush Trick more specifically when I get to the door, since no one else is I'll have combat advantage, that alright?
Igfig: unless Thorn halts it
Igfig: you should, yeah... it has full concealment though
Thorn: Right, full concealment means a -5 penalty right?
Igfig: yeah, I was just adding that to it's AC before
Igfig: *its
Thorn: Right, I'll put it into the roll then as I shall backstab it, between combat advantage and backstab that penalty will be negated for me.
Igfig: go ahead and swing
Igfig: aright, cool
Thorn: 1d20+15+2+3-5 vs. AC
Fortuna: Thorn, vs. AC: [2] = 17
Ace_Justice: oh my god
Igfig: but alas, you miss
Barvo: a 2
Barvo: nice
Thorn: Or I could roll horribly, dammit someone who did random rolls.
Igfig: and as described, it goes out the door and up the exterior wall
Ace_Justice: then me and barvo run onto the cieling and chase it?
Igfig: Barvo and Ace give chase, yes
Igfig: uh... onto the ceiling?
Ace_Justice: yes
Igfig: Like, running up the wall?
BD: They both rolled in the 30's
Ace_Justice: we ran so fast we went up the wall yes
Ace_Justice: 1935 I first rolled that dice
Barvo: I will just climb really well
Igfig: Yes, but I mean... the ceiling is on the interior
BD: Man. You must be old Ace
Ace_Justice: yes and the door is the exit
Barvo: I went out of the door, leaped to the exterior wall
Ace_Justice: I basically went on the same route as the monster
Barvo: and climbed after it
Ace_Justice: following it on the ceiling out the door
Ace_Justice: and up the exterior wall
Igfig: the monster is sticking to the roof because it has a spider climb effect
Ace_Justice: maybe gravity works differently on this ship
Ace_Justice: or rule of cool?
Brigsby: we're not on a ship
Ace_Justice: oh
Igfig: you can't actually run all the way across the ceiling using momentum, it really doesn't make sense
Ace_Justice: hmm
Igfig: see, you could have gone out the door and run up the wall behind it, sure
BD: Just take the normal give chase route
Ace_Justice: okay what if I climbed along the cieling?
Ace_Justice: yeah I gues
Barvo: tha'ts what I did
Ace_Justice: I'll just go outside
Ace_Justice: and climb up after it
Barvo: I am now running up a wall
Igfig: I really don't understand why you want to be on the ceiling
Igfig: Okay, cool
Ace_Justice: because it would have been cool
Ace_Justice: we are now running up a wall
Thorn: How high is the roof?
Ace_Justice: barvo gives me my axe
Igfig: Not that high, like fifteen feet
BD: The rest of use take a tea break
Ace_Justice: the tea is delicious
Ace_Justice: we miss out
Thorn: Hmmm..
Igfig: You get up there in a single action, but... can you see tell where it went?
BD: Which is a shame because your double monocle could've come in handy
Ace_Justice: true
Ace_Justice: hmm
Ace_Justice: well
Ace_Justice: since we rolled really high
Igfig: you chased it up the wall, yes
Ace_Justice: we could have run fast enough to catch it as it got onto the roof and still have an idea where it went
Igfig: I am asking for Perception
Ace_Justice: aah okay
Ace_Justice: 1d20+8
Fortuna: Ace_Justice, 1d20+8: [11] = 19
Barvo: 1d20+4
Fortuna: Barvo, 1d20+4: [14] = 18
BD: 1d20+13 to climb up after them
Fortuna: BD, to climb up after them: [16] = 29
Igfig:  1d20+14 stealth
Fortuna: Igfig, stealth: [5] = 19
Igfig: damn
Ace_Justice: awesome
BD: "Hey guys. I'm here too now"\
Igfig: BD follows you up in the same way
Thorn: Oh hey, I can see it with my passive perception, awesome.
Ace_Justice: 1d20+9 to push BD off
Fortuna: Ace_Justice, to push BD off: [15] = 24
Ace_Justice: str check
BD: "I am going to kill you Ace"
BD: 1d20+12
Fortuna: BD, 1d20+12: [16] = 28
Igfig: and you catch a glimpse of the thing, a few steps ahead of you
BD: Can I pick up Ace and throw him at the thing?
Ace_Justice: I agree with this
Barvo: I attack it
Thorn: I'm going to see if I can cut it off, we know what direction it's ship is in so I'll get over to that direction of the building.
Igfig: whirling around and slashing at Ace and Barvo with somekind of bladdes
Igfig: *blades
Ace_Justice: oh snap
Ace_Justice: vs ref?
Ace_Justice: or ref check?
Barvo: CURTAIN OF STEEL!
BD: I stand back and laught
Barvo: I get to hit it back
Igfig:  1d20+16 vs Ace AC; 1d20+16+2 vs Barvo AC
Fortuna: Igfig, vs Ace AC: [3] = 19; vs Barvo AC: [20] = 38
Ace_Justice: miss me
Barvo: yeah it crits me
Ace_Justice: wait no
Igfig: ouch Barvo
Ace_Justice: it hits me
Ace_Justice: just 
Igfig: really? Your AC is crazy low, Ace
BD: Can I hide while it's attacking them Ig?
Ace_Justice: wait
Ace_Justice: I use my shield's power
Brigsby: AC
Ace_Justice: +2 to the targeted defense
Brigsby: your AC is like 25 or 26
Ace_Justice: it misses
Ace_Justice: oh
Igfig: you're still coming up behind them, BD
Ace_Justice: oops
Brigsby: it missed anyway
Ace_Justice: yeah it misses the
Ace_Justice: sillyme
BD: Oh
Ace_Justice: I was looking at ref for some reason
BD: Tell me when I arrive
Igfig: in any case
Barvo: I take a hit then get to return the same
Barvo: 1d20+15
Fortuna: Barvo, 1d20+15: [3] = 18
Igfig:  3*6+13 damage to Barvo, and he's pushed back off the roof
Fortuna: Igfig, damage to Barvo, and he's pushed back off the roof: [] = 31
Barvo: I miss anyway
Barvo: 1d20 to not fall off
Fortuna: Barvo, to not fall off: [16] = 16
BD: Can I grab Barvo as he falls?
Barvo: I am prone
Ace_Justice: that makes me think of an old 90's game where you are stuck in a crouched animation as you fall
Igfig: Your fingers just graze the ledge, but yeah you fall
Igfig: sure BD, go ahead and try
BD: STR right?
Igfig: yeah, that sounds right
BD: 1d20+12
Fortuna: BD, 1d20+12: [20] = 32
Igfig: +12? What?
BD: Wait
BD: I'm thinking of somethign else
BD: But still 20
Igfig: Still, natural 20
Barvo: crit anyway
BD: Oh, I was thinking of a fort
Ace_Justice: why were you thinking of forts?
Ace_Justice: this is no time for forts
BD: I don't know
BD: I wanted to build one
BD: Anyway
Igfig: so yeah, just as Barvo's about to fall screaming off the 15-foot roof, your hand finds his and halts his descent
BD: Does my awesome roll throw him back up?
Barvo: not that that would have hurt me much
Igfig: Yeah, that's reasonable
BD: WOOHOO
Igfig: you're still here on the roof
Barvo: okay then
Igfig: aye
BD: Barvo falls screaming off, but BD grabs him while climbing up and THROWS HIM UP INTO THE AIR AND BACK UP ONTO THE ROOF
BD: "Dynomite! Dynomite"
Igfig: ayup
Igfig: Other folks back down on the ground, what're you doing?
Barvo: Barvo lands, looking angry
Igfig: Ah, Thorn is trying to cut it off
Thorn: Yup.
BD: They're having tea time
Ace_Justice: and brigs?
Brigsby: I'm performing the Familiar Mount ritual
Ace_Justice: okay
Igfig: gotcha
Ace_Justice: so we're all occupied
Ace_Justice: roll init now?
Igfig: Yeah, I think this is a good time for that
Barvo: 1d20+5
Fortuna: Barvo, 1d20+5: [1] = 6
Ace_Justice: 1d20+7
Fortuna: Ace_Justice, 1d20+7: [12] = 19
Barvo: yayy
BD: 1d20+10
Fortuna: BD, 1d20+10: [3] = 13
Barvo: thats a proper barvo init
Brigsby: 1d20+8
Fortuna: Brigsby, 1d20+8: [13] = 21
BD: The 3 strikers are up here about to kick some butt
BD: Thorn and Brigs are doing stuff downstairs
Barvo: I will be standing about for a while before I kick any butt
Thorn: 1d20+13
Fortuna: Thorn, 1d20+13: [11] = 24
Ace_Justice: butt in the end
Igfig:  1d20+16 init
Fortuna: Igfig, init: [17] = 33
Ace_Justice: you will kick some butts
Igfig: It's going to slash at Barvo and Ace again
Ace_Justice: okay
Igfig:  2#1d20+16 vs: Ace AC, Barvo AC
Fortuna: Igfig, vs Ace AC: [6] = 22; vs Barvo AC: [1] = 17
Barvo: yay
slim: Protip:
Barvo: ,iss'
Ace_Justice: ,iss'
slim: Do not neglect to eat for most of the day then drink 16OZ can of redbull in a half hour
Barvo: truth
Ace_Justice: nice one slim
slim: I mean, I had a mini blueberry pie and some icecream
Igfig: misses with both slashes, but uses the momentum to whirl around and spin backwards in a sort of sideways backflip
Ace_Justice: oh man
Ace_Justice: mini pies are great
Igfig:  1d20+19 stealth, also
Fortuna: Igfig, stealth, also: [8] = 27
Igfig: and that's its turn
Ace_Justice: weneed to get a map up
BD: Do we have a map for this?
Igfig: nah, I'm not sure we really need one
Ace_Justice: actually
Ace_Justice: I might need to leave soon
Ace_Justice: so let's hurry
Igfig: there's just the one enemy
Ace_Justice: yeah
Ace_Justice: who's turn is it anywys?
BD: And there's 3 strikers
Ace_Justice: also that was a crit failure on barvo there ig
Ace_Justice: any penalties?
Thorn: Well, I'd be next, but I'm not up there, so I guess I'll try to spot it again.
Igfig: Good point... let's say Barvo'll get a +5 bonus to his Perception to try and see it
Igfig: kay
Thorn: 1d20+11 perception for me from down here.
Fortuna: Thorn, perception for me from down here.: [11] = 22
Barvo: yay
Thorn: Nope, still haven't spotted it again yet.
BD: Who;s turn is it?
Thorn: Brigsby's then, he got a 19.
Igfig: you still know which way it was headed though, so you can still try to get in its way for later
Thorn: I mean 21.
Brigsby: I'm doing the ritual
Thorn: Yup.
Brigsby: it's a 5 minute ritual
Thorn: So then it is Ace's turn.
Brigsby: yeah
Brigsby: basically I'm occupied for 50 turns
Thorn: Then BD, and then Barvo.
Igfig: aright
Ace_Justice: hmm
Brigsby: Which is a way of saying that I'm getting off, I have class in the morning
Ace_Justice: 1d20+8 to try and spot it, or footprints or something
Fortuna: Ace_Justice, to try and spot it, or footprints or something: [10] = 18
Brigsby: Have fun with the ninja, guys
Igfig: okay, see you Brigs!
Brigsby: bye all
Igfig: sorry Ace, no such luck
Ace_Justice: hmm
Ace_Justice: I'm going to go ahead and use sweeping blow blindly in front of us
Ace_Justice: hoping to strike it
Ace_Justice: 1d20+14-5
Fortuna: Ace_Justice, 1d20+14-5: [8] = 17
Ace_Justice: dar
Ace_Justice: n
Ace_Justice: errrm
Ace_Justice: yeah I'll end
BD: Are trained actions minor?
Ace_Justice: yes
Ace_Justice: I have very very low wisdom though
Igfig: Tertiary checks are minor
Igfig: training just gives you +5 on the check
BD: It's my turn then
BD: I'll use my standard to spot it
BD: 1d20+10
Fortuna: BD, 1d20+10: [14] = 24
Igfig: Anyway Ace, you aren't sure whether you just missed him or he was in a completely different spot
BD: And can I hide as a minor with stealth?
Igfig: Oh sorry, Perception checks are always minor actions
BD: Ah
BD: Well then
Igfig: and if you can get cover, you can make a stealth check as part of your move action
BD: Do I see him?
BD: And can I attack him?
Thorn: You didn't beat his stealth check, he got a 27
Igfig: He did get a 27 on stealth, so afraid not
BD: Heroic Effort
BD: 28
Igfig: Nice
Igfig: Yeah, you see him
Ace_Justice: go explosion fist him!
Igfig:  1d20 Ace's judgement
Fortuna: Igfig, Ace's judgement: [3] = 3
Igfig: Ace was nowhere near him
BD: ARC OF THE FLASHING STORM
Ace_Justice: what
Igfig: whao
Ace_Justice: oh
BD: 1d20+11 v Fort
Fortuna: BD, v Fort: [12] = 23
BD: wait
BD: Flashing storm is ref
BD: V Ref
BD: 2d10+5
Fortuna: BD, 2d10+5: [9, 6] = 20
Igfig: Yeah, that just barely hits
BD: And I teleport my speed behind cover
BD: -2 to attack on him until next turn
Igfig: Nice, go ahead and make that Stealth check if you like
BD: 1d20+13
Fortuna: BD, 1d20+13: [11] = 24
Igfig: Cool
BD: D&D needs the ballistic fist from falout
Barvo: So did BD point out the location of the enemy?
BD: fallout*
BD: You saw me punch it
Igfig: Hitting him scrambled part of his active camouflage again
BD: So yes
Igfig: so his stealth check is 5 lower, and you know which square he's in
Barvo: so if I make the check as a minor he will have no concealment?
Igfig: Were you readying an action, Thorn? Because I think your Perception can see him now
BD: Oh hey
BD: Flurry of blows
BD: Forgot that
BD: 7 damage to him as well
Igfig: You have a +5 bonus to your check, Barvo, and the DC is 22 now
Thorn: I hadn't been, since he was up on the roof still, I will be next turn, also no I can't quite see him, not passive anyways.
Igfig: okay BD
Thorn: Though I got a 22 on my perception check earlier.
Igfig: Yeah, the DC is 22 now
Igfig: so your Perception check has now become good enough
Igfig: but okay
Barvo: so is it my turn?
Igfig: It is, yes
Thorn: Yar I hadn't readied anything.
Igfig: all right
Barvo: ok
Barvo: minor to see him
Barvo: 1d20+9
Fortuna: Barvo, 1d20+9: [12] = 21
Barvo: npoe
Igfig: Your wisdom is 10? Oh well
Barvo: so I will simply use thunder hooves rage on the square I know he is in.
Igfig: k
Barvo: 1d20+15
Fortuna: Barvo, 1d20+15: [14] = 29
Barvo: so 24?
slim: Hey dudes I am BACK
Igfig: Yeah. That's vs AC or what?
Barvo: yeah
Igfig: juuuust misses
Barvo: half damage
Barvo: 3d12+10
Fortuna: Barvo, 3d12+10: [5, 3, 9] = 27
Barvo: and now I am angry!
Igfig:  27/2
Fortuna: Igfig,  27/2: [] = 13
Igfig: yaaay
Barvo: did I have to move to hit him there?
Igfig: yeah, a bit
Barvo: ok
Barvo: action point, reckless rampage
Barvo: move through his square
Barvo: he can OA if he likes
Igfig: Hmm... he takes it
Igfig:  1d20+16 vs AC
Fortuna: Igfig, vs AC: [12] = 28
Barvo: hits
Barvo: I have CA on him now
Igfig:  3d6+13 damage
Fortuna: Igfig, damage: [6, 3, 2] = 24
Igfig: okay
Barvo: 1d20+17
Fortuna: Barvo, 1d20+17: [8] = 25
Barvo: also, doesn't hidden go away when you attack?
Igfig: His active camo is giving him full concealment
Barvo: ok
BD: He also has -2 to his attacks remember
Igfig: if he's hidden, you don't know what square he's in and can't hear him either
Igfig: Oh yeah, that's right
Ace_Justice: I need to go, can I just quickly do my turn?>
Barvo: yeah, my ac is 20
Barvo: done anyway
BD: Kill him Ace
Igfig: Sure, go ahead
Ace_Justice: okay
Barvo: flank with barvo
Ace_Justice: I flip into duelist's assault stance
Ace_Justice: I'm going to charge
Ace_Justice: can I charge into a flanking square then finish with the hit
Ace_Justice: ?
Barvo: yes
Ace_Justice: okay
Ace_Justice: I will do that
Igfig: The angle is a little difficult
Ace_Justice: and use a power strike
BD: The music I am listening to fits this perfectly
Igfig: Athletics or Acrobatics
Ace_Justice: 1d20+14 athletics
Fortuna: Ace_Justice, athletics: [7] = 21
Igfig: yeah, no problem
Ace_Justice: 1d20+14 vs ac on the attack
Fortuna: Ace_Justice, vs ac on the attack: [14] = 28
Ace_Justice: awesome
Ace_Justice: 1d12+17+1d12+1d6
Fortuna: Ace_Justice, 1d12+17+1d12+1d6: [2, 10, 6] = 35
Ace_Justice: 35 damage
Ace_Justice: from the various bonuses
Ace_Justice: then...
Igfig: (we skipped the assassin's turn, by the way.., he'll go after this)
Igfig: also
Ace_Justice: Ace shrinks and tucks himself into Barvo's pocket
Ace_Justice: okay gotta go
Ace_Justice: toodles
slim: OK,
Igfig: Ace's strike smashes right through the camo cloak and connects with flesh
BD: "You should drop some stinky socks in there Barvo"
slim: The now flickering creature suddenly splits into several exact replicas
slim: All of which run in different directions
BD: I'm imagining the slugs from the slurm factory
Igfig: there's also a flash of light much like the one from earlier
Barvo: sooo
Barvo: fort save?
Igfig: BD and Barvo are close, right? Make Fort saves, you two
Barvo: 1d20+7
Fortuna: Barvo, 1d20+7: [3] = 10
Igfig: ouch
Barvo: yayy
Barvo: back down for me
BD: 1d20+11
Fortuna: BD, 1d20+11: [17] = 28
BD: BD doesn't flinch again
Igfig: indeed
Igfig: and I feel like there should be some damage here
BD: It was just a flash of light
slim: Very minor explosive damage
Igfig: yeah, not too much
BD: It could be radiant damage I suppose
Igfig:  2d10+5 radiant
Fortuna: Igfig, radiant: [4, 4] = 13
Igfig: half on a miss
BD: 6 for me then
Barvo: down to 11hp
Igfig: ow
slim: It was a sort of shrapnel flashbang
slim: Barvo down to 11?
slim: Wha?
Barvo: I will be fine if I can get a turn in.
Igfig: so yeah, there are now a bunch of replicas, all fleeing in different directions
Barvo: I took several large hits
slim: Apparently so.
Barvo: like 30 damage at once
Igfig: whose turn is it now?
BD: Bah
BD: and brigs isn't here to AoE everything
Igfig: Thorn's?
Barvo: A lesser man would have perished long ago
Thorn: Yar.
Thorn: I think, maybe.
BD: I luckilly have an AoE with flurry of blows
Igfig: that would be handy if two of them were adjacent to each other
Thorn: So I can see them now right?
Thorn: I think.
Thorn: Maybe.
Igfig: Yeah, you can
Thorn: Wait yeah I could anyways so anyways.
Igfig: looks like the camo cloak was damaged, in any case
Thorn: Are they all running this way or just one of them?
Igfig: Just one of them
Thorn: Alright, I'm going to Ambush Trick and prepare for another backstab then.
Igfig: Aright
Thorn: So I ready myself for when he gets here.
BD: My turn?
Igfig: Sure
BD: Alright
BD: I'm going to choose the one that has the most enemies around him
Igfig: huh?
Igfig: They're all going off in different directions
slim: G'night dudes!
BD: Yes, whichever has the most enemies within 2 squares of him
slim quit.
Igfig: Night Slim!
Thorn: Night Slim.
Igfig: There's one that's within 2 squares of you and Barvo
BD: BD flies up out of cover and slams his fist into one of the fleeing creatures. 
BD: 1d20+11 v Fort
Fortuna: BD, v Fort: [11] = 22
Igfig: that's a hit
Igfig: ...and the image dissipates into the air
BD: Awesome. That's even better
Igfig:  1d10 secret roll
Fortuna: Igfig, secret roll: [10] = 10
Igfig: ok
BD: Flurry of blows to the nearest one then, 9 damage
Igfig:  1d10 secret roll
Fortuna: Igfig, secret roll: [1] = 1
BD: AS I PUMMEL MY FIST INTO THE OTHER CREATURE, SHOCKWAVES ECHO OUT HITTING ALL NEAR HIM
Igfig: there's only the one nearby, I'm afraid
BD: Oh what the absolute heck silver light
BD: Don't you dare freeze on me
Igfig: and that one dissipates as well
BD: Any enemies within 2 squares of me are pushed 1 square
Igfig: The replicas respond appropriately
Igfig: Barvo's still out of it, so I think it's the assassin's turn now
Barvo: oh right, the stun
BD: Hold up
BD: Action point
BD: How many are left
Igfig: Eight
BD: 1d8
Fortuna: BD, 1d8: [4] = 4
Barvo: brb'
BD: I'm going to fly my speed to the 4th one
Igfig: Okay
Igfig: you are there
BD: Lion's Den
BD: 1d20+11 v Ref
Fortuna: BD, v Ref: [19] = 30
BD: 1d6+5
Fortuna: BD, 1d6+5: [4] = 9
Igfig: and yet another disappears beneath your raging fists
Igfig: Seven left
BD: And I get to shift
BD: So shift to one
BD: End turn
Igfig: Okay
Igfig: They all tumble away... they don't provoke OAs from the first square they leave each action, I'm afraid
Igfig: (that was the spinning backflip thing I described earlier)
Igfig: One bounds past you, Thorn
Thorn: And stabby time.
Igfig: Right on
Thorn: 1d20+15+2+3 vs. AC
Fortuna: Thorn, vs. AC: [4] = 24
Thorn: Oh come on roll thing.
Igfig: Oy, that doesn't even hit I'm afraid
Igfig:  1d7 secret roll
Fortuna: Igfig, secret roll: [5] = 5
BD: How in the heck
Igfig: welp
Igfig: in any case
Igfig: they scatter to the winds
Thorn: I am now out of backstabs, joy.
Thorn: Action point, shoot at him with my pistol?
Igfig: Sure
BD: 1d20+13 to punch the winds for aiding in their escape
Fortuna: BD, to punch the winds for aiding in their escape: [1] = 14
BD: ow
Igfig: the winds are uncooperative
BD: I punch the air and choke
Thorn: Least I still have combat advantage.
Thorn: 1d20+12+2
Fortuna: Thorn, 1d20+12+2: [17] = 31
Igfig: You plug the image in the back as it tumbles away
Thorn: Crud.
Igfig: the remaining six scatter to the aforementioned winds
Barvo: 1d20 no more stun
Fortuna: Barvo, no more stun: [13] = 13
Thorn: To the shuttle!
BD: 1d20+13 to run after them
Fortuna: BD, to run after them: [14] = 27
Igfig: With only three of you right now and six of them, there's not much chance of catching the culprit just by chasing!
BD: 1d6
Fortuna: BD, 1d6: [3] = 3
BD: I run after the 3rd one
Igfig: Therefore
Igfig: This is where we'll stop for tonight
Igfig: and next session, the hunt will begin in earnest
BD: Come on Ig. BD can't pace himself for a week
Barvo: okay then
Igfig: Be brave
Barvo: I am only too happy to sleep
BD: Now them
BD: I must create a crypt
Igfig: Have you guys ever seen Rambo
Barvo: though I must say: I miss heronius :(
BD: for ghost merchants
BD: Yes
Barvo: which rambo
Barvo: ?
Thorn: I'm afraid I have not.
Barvo: the good one or the other ones?
Igfig: First Blood is the one I've seen
Barvo: thats the real one
Igfig: Y'know the police in that one, chasing a guy through the forest?
Igfig: Be better than them.
BD: Oh man
Igfig: G'night!
BD: Night
Thorn: Night Ig.
Igfig quit.