Mae

[5E] Peasants of Mass Destruction

@Necroes a Peasant Swarm is 10 XP, i reckon an average guard could trounce them easily enough

I've been mulling over XP, I'm still leaning towards granting XP over milestone but it might take me a little tinkering to get it right. I think I'll have a better idea once I know which questlines y'all are leaning towards. I think I'm going to set the peasant levels to be equal to 300 XP per, though it's not set in stone

@rush99999 is up next, I believe

[5E] Peasants of Mass Destruction

<sup>The dwarf rolls over to look up at the kobold (may no dwarf speak of this again), wide-eyed as the reality of the situation starts to take shape in his mind. The air is filled with the garbled shouting of Swampmuck's locals as Thel'dek helps him to his feet. His expression grave, he gives a curt nod as he briefly sends a look of trepidation over the kobold's shoulder.

The dwarf's words were brief as he met Thel'dek's gaze. "Lead the way. I trust you." It seems the kobold's sincerity had reached passed the usual distrust between the two species, at least for now.

The main clearing, southwards, in front of the cart was now a mess of grasping hands and stampeding legs. Eastwards lay the main thoroughfare of the festival, where stalls were being errected, banners displayed, and the main square lay beyond, overlooked by the Adament Tankard and home to Thel'dek's own trinket shop. Northwards led, eventually, to the main traderoad out of town. It was mostly clear up to that point, with the occasional demarcation of property or a shambling lean-to watching over some good turnip growing land. Today there were the occasional shambles of supplies and crates from traders still unloading their goods from out of town, mixed in with tents from peasants who weren't lucky enough to get a room at the Tankard. Westward lay more fields that gave way, too quickly, into swampland.</sup>

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@POOHEAD189@Lucius Cypher@Dark Cloud@Cao the Exiled@VeyrinDay

Sorry for dissapearing for an extended period of time without saying anything, just checking everyone is still around?

Here's a reminder on what was happening:
@Lucius Cypher Completed the OOC part - Contacting the Feast of Birds, Impressing them via SKULK. got a mixed success - they will be less reticent after you raid somewhere other then LittleCrop, bonuses granted if it's Stately Vinyard (delicious, delicious booze for their parting).
@Dark Cloud Contacting Vorath-Dakoth and bringing Cao's character back to the dungeon. Looking to gain resources from Vorath-Dakoth & expand his influence (I'm trying to picture exactly what this would entail if successful. We could tick the building of the tier 3 room, a project, or tick a faction clock like one of Vorath-Dakoths missions. What would you like to get out of him?)
@VeyrinDay Recruiting a Minion Pack by eating the gold and producing minions. Because you're spending a gold to do it, it'll be an automatic success and you won't need to roll a skill check.
@POOHEAD189 Incanting a Ritual, what are you looking to achieve with your ritual?

@VeyrinDay each player can have one minion pack total

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@Mae Please excuse me that I'm currently losing ideas to continue this, would you please put my character on hold? I might want to continue later.

I also allow her to be controlled by anyone who might be interested, through a roll, of course.

@VeyrinDay

All good, she'll be waiting for you when she gets back. Also, I love the roll idea xD I'll keep a recap ready for your return should anyone decide to utilise that :D

Game: Gnome Town

@Kassarock You build the healers hut near the center of the village, feeling a sense of satisfaction as the bricks go down. After smoothing out the floors and making room for gnomes in need of care, you step back to admire your work. The small cots are already filling up with the sickly as word around the clearing spreads. Now to assign someone to tend them, and they will surely be back to work soon.
@Kenshi You gather some Mud.
@Duthguy You craft a Mud Brick.
@Gendarme You forage for food and devise a fantastic musical around the joys of food gathering.
@ForsakenBySleep You analyse the process of making mud bricks. You think you would need some tools to make life a little easier, but have no idea how to go about making them. Perhaps building a Wise Man's Hut will attract someone who has a little insight into the process.
@Dark Cloud You think about starting a cult. A worker asks you why you're not making bricks or gathering mud. You tell him about your cult idea and he agrees to join if you do some work. You have a snack instead.
@TGM You forage for food, successfully.
The workers eat some food.
The mute forager scratches some strange symbols into the ground, which might look pretty if they weren't so horrifying.

Resources:

13 / 35 Food
5 / 25 Mud
5 / 25 Mud Brick

Workers:

6 / 6 Workers (2 / 4 Sick)
0x Laborer
2x Gatherer - Mud (1x Sick)
2x Forager - Food (1x Sick)
2x Crafter - Bricks
0x Healer

Buildings:

2x Mud Hut
1x Gatherers Hut
1x Healer's Hut

Do one thing:
>[] Forage for Food
>[] Gather Mud

>[] Craft: Mud Brick (requires:1 Mud)

>[] Build Hut (requires: 7 Mud Bricks)
>[] Build Healer’s Hut (requires: 7 Mud Bricks)
>[] Build Gatherer's Hut (requires: 10 Mud Bricks)
>[] Build Wise Man's Hut (requires: 10 Mud Bricks)

>[] Heal the Sick

>[]Assign Worker: Forage Food / Gathering Mud / Crafting Brick
>[]Re-Assign Worker: Forage Food / Gathering Mud / Crafting Brick

Currently Researching:

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Researched:

Herbal Medicine

[5E] Peasants of Mass Destruction

@rush99999 no worries, sorry for going mia myself!

There's still quite alot of peasants interested in getting their hands on dragons gold magical wands of health and rejuvenation

@Dark Cloud excellent! sorry, i think I missed where the roll is? Then I'll respond with what the d0rf does once I know what was rolled

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fell woefully behind for a hot second there, sorry folks!

@POOHEAD189 Here are the options you can take:

Options

After the revelry calms down, you can spend some time building up the dungeon, planning the next raid, or working on something devilish of your own divising. You can build traps, craft potions, work on rituals, or break a prisoner's spirit, ect. Here's how downtime works:

• Each Dungeon Lord takes one downtime action.

• You can pay Minions 1 gold to undertake a downtime action on their own. I don't think anyone has the 2 gold to do this, but good to keep in mind for the future.
• Certain Calling abilities grant additional Downtime actions.
• You can flashback to perform downtime actions that are immediately relevant to a scene, paying cost to represent the strenuous effort. We haven't spoken about this yet, but we'll cover it more next raid.

When you perform a downtime action, you make an action roll like SKULK, SMASH, BANTER, ect. Downtime actions have dominant position, unless there is an overwhelming circumstance towards position. You generally have enough time to safely work on a project. However, you can choose to Risk it and take a normal position to recklessly push yourself to accomplish something, risking bad consequences, but if you do so you must accept the result, warts and all.

Downtime actions:

-> B R E W a concoction or potion, making two doses.

Commonly used Actions: INVOKE • SCAN • TINKER

Concoctions & Potions

You make two doses with a single downtime action and it is always a tier 1 downtime project, regardless of the tier of the concoction itself (brewing tier 1, 2 or 3 concoctions never takes too long).

Brewing higher tier potions is inherently difficult and dangerous. You take -1d on Tier 2 Potions and -2d when brewing tier 3.

If you roll a mixed (4 or 5) on this downtime action, the concoction becomes volatile.

Concoctions are made using alchemical reagents, purified and distilled elements of the natural world. These tend to be things like minerals, herbs, or fungi. It's assumed that you can collect any ingredients you need when brewing and you can weave the collecting of them into your IC post.
Some examples:

black powder	quicksilver	mould spores	brimstone	moondew	magnesium
realgar	cold iron	mugwort extract	saltpeter	ginger extract	phosphorus
myrrh	sea salt	gold flakes	nightshade	silver	thistle

ADJUSTING TIER

After the Concoction tier is set you can further amplify it's effects the following ways. Doing so increases the tier of the concoction, making it more difficult or dangerous to create.

• Expand the area from a small to a medium area, or medium to large
• Expand the duration from a short to a medium time, or medium to long
• Expand the scale allowing you to affect targets that you might normally be in a tight spot against.

-> B U I L D a lock, room, trap or trick. The project tier equals the tier of what you're building.

Commonly used Actions: FINESSE • SCAN • SMASH • TINKER • TRICK

-> C O N T A C T a Vile Friend, Faction, or other NPC to gain information, ask for help, or make demands. The Project tier depends on how much you ask for.

Commonly used Actions: BANTER • THREATEN • TRICK

-->C R A F T an item, edge, or contraption. The project tier of a contraption is it's tier. A mundane item is a tier 1 project and adding an edge to an item is tier 2. Contraptions are always volatile.

Commonly used Actions: FINESS • SCAN • TINKER

Monster Smience

To craft something with monster science, you must explain the monster pseudoscience behind what you're crafting or how you're crafting it. As long as you can make the thing you're crafting sound somewhat plauisble, you're good to go, if the GM agrees.

Tier 1

These creations sound safe when explained with pseudoscience or are relatively safe to work on. You can make Mundane items, minor concoctions, and simple contraptions that accomplish something useful

Tier 2

These creations sound complex when explained with pseudoscience or are quite risky to work on. You can add edges to items, make potent concoctions, and complex contraptions. When brewing concoctions of this tier, you take -1 to the roll.

Tier 3

These creations sound convuluted when explained or are quite dangerous to work on. You can create the craziest concoctions and contraptions. When brewing concoctions of this tier, you take -2d to the roll.

Contraptions

The technology of the Dungeon is 'shoddy steampunk'. A monster can't build a computer or plane but they could build a dirigible, rocket boots or a hot air balloon. Incredibly complex creations are usually the culmination of several different contraptions. A mask that lets you breathe underwater combined with a propeller might function like a makeshift submarine.

Contraptions are creations that don't commonly exist and for good reason - every contraption is volatile in some way.

Edges

When you improve an existing item, you can give it an Edge. An Edge is a modifier that makes something better at it's job. For granting new abilities, see contraptions - Edges only improve on existing functionality.

These are some example Edges, but you can work with me to create new ones. Please note: Edges never make you better at killing things, weapons have already been honed over thousands of years into perfect killing tools.

Camouflaged: Take +effect when sneaking in a forest.
Hidden: Can be hidden more easily than a normal version.
Light: Does not take up a gear slot.
Terrifying: Take +effect when using it to scare someone.
Trusty: Extremely difficult to break or remove from your possession.
Pulverizing: Take +effect when destroying stone or armor.
Powerful: Excels at knocking back enemies.

-> I N C A N T a ritual, preparing it to be performed or finishing it off and performing it. You can achieve powerful magical effects or make magic items. Rituals have special requirements that must be fulfilled before they can be performed.

Commonly used Actions: FINESSE • INVOKE • SCAN

-> R E C R U I T a pack of minions or attract a creature without having to spend gold. This is always a tier 1 project. You can only do this if you have an open minion slot of creature lair.

Commonly used Actions: BANTER • THREATEN • SMASH • TRICK

-> T O R T U R E a prisoner to force them to reveal a single secret or break their spirit and make them do something for you. Getting information is always a tier 1 project and each prisoner knows a number of secrets equal to their tier. Torturing is risky buisness, often killing a prisoner or pushing them to do something extreme. Tis is an overwhelming circumstance towards position.

Commonly used Actions: BANTER • SKULK • THREATEN • TRICK

@Lucius Cypher 5 is a mixed success. Would you like to Risk It to recklessly push yourself to accomplish your goal? You get to reroll to try again for the 6 however if you fail there will be negative consequences, so that's the gamble.

Alternatively, with a 5, the Feast of Birds are intrigued by your offer but not entirely convinced. They will expect you to prove yourself by performing a raid on anywhere other then Little Crop. Bonus points if you raid them booze from the Stately Vineyard, if you dare risk raiding a higher tier area.

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@DraconiWarlord 2 - Failure
you go to pick up the corpse but buckle under it's weight, unable to lift so much as a single digit of a paw. This creature is huge, and the carcass will be a problem to dispose.

@Gentlemanvaultboy 3 - Mixed Success
You recall the location of one of the emergency buttons, removing a castle brick to find a strange magical lock mixed with wires and sparking electricity. A pad of lighting up buttons flicker to the tune of an unheard beat. Blast, what was that password again? Top-left top right center center bottom right left? Top middle top middle bottom middle bottom middle left right left right center center? Ho humm, you remember they talked about this alot at Black Castle orientation day, but that was so long ago...

@RainyHigh 1 - Catastrophic Failure O.O
You attempt to use a simple cleaning spell, but feeling muddled, switch some of the components over. As you parse the last syllable a flash of red lit smoke fills the room and you see the flash of silvered teeth! Looks like you have summoned some creature into the chamber with you, but the red fog roiling around you makes it hard to see...

@Kenshi 2 - Failure
The strange child wriggles out of your grasp and lets out an ear piercing scream! All unblinking eyes turn to look at you eeriely, as one child runs off to fetch the parents...

2 - Failure
You look around for a secret button or lever, but find none, though you were expecting one. Had you misplaced it? or had it been moved?

@Dark Cloud 6 - Overblown Success
The roots writhe around you as you pull the best incantation out of your memory, the arcane focus growing hot in your hands as you murmur the words of power to utter perfection. You are blinded by a white light, a sense of dizziness overtaking you momentarily before it dissipates. Your eyes adjust and you realise you are staring up into the noonday sun. Sheeps baa nearby, and you look down to see a young shepherd eyeing you with a mix of suspicion and fear.

Where... where are you?

Looking around, you see no hint of Black Castle nearby, nor giant trees that should definitely give a hint to it's location. A curious ewe bumps against your knee.

@Vatonage 5 - Total Success
The new power of the legendary beast pulses through you as you weave your spellwork. Your magic springs forth from you, and you feel Yggdrasil buckle to your will. Gargantuan roots tangle with jagged rocks and fine stonework, the great granting access to the roof and other areas thanks to this change. Black Castle is firmly in place now as the ground still shakes, safely anchored - and melded - to Yggdrassil.

@rocketrobie2 2 - Failure
There is a hiss and a sputter as the fuse ignites and then pitters out. For a moment you contemplate sticking your head in front of the cannon to get a better look, but then think better of it.

[5E] Peasants of Mass Destruction

@Dark Cloud then @rush99999 next. These peasants rolled terribly

[5E] Peasants of Mass Destruction

<sup>Your words ring out as a series of heads whip around, wide-eyed. One-Eyed Billy, self-imposed sheriff of the watch, had a special, shoddy non-lethal crossbow he liked to use to take pot shots at misbehaving Swampmuckians. He sometimes enjoyed taking a little bit of extra love and care with his work before dumping people in the stocks for all to see. No doubt he would take it as a mark against his pride if things went poorly before the biggest day of the year. The group of peasants closest to you begins to scatter like young street urchins as they themselves duck for cover or scarper away.

You hear a HURK as you grab the dwarf's collar instead of his sleeve in your rush to get moving. You manage to trip over your own feet all right, knocking yourself prone over the crate as you misjudged exactly how much motor control you have right now. It is neither elegant nor out of sight to be splayed out in such a manner. The dwarf from out of town bumps into the side of the crate as well, loosing his footing.</sup>