The massive stone blocks that would be required to make a place like this (we don’t see any lines in the walls for bricks) has us thinking that this is a magically reworked cave of some kind, and that due to the heat as we go up the extremely long windowless ramp/hallway we may be in some kind of desert cave. As we make our way up, we’re displeased to narrowly dodge a burst of green dust from a tiny hole in the floor. Great, traps. That’d prolly be why the DM has been smirking. Out of curiosity, Howler tosses a dog carcass from his back onto the trap to see what happens, and the green jet passes through the corpse as though it wasn’t there, leaving smoking holes in the carcass’ hide. Acid? Well at least I’M safe.

We manage to get to the end of the tunnel with a few near misses, and we see we were for the large part correct. We’re in a valley of some kind, V shaped, with a slight overhang blocking most of the sun. The shape of the area makes it like a wind tunnel, blowing sand around painfully and disrupting both Echo’s blindsight and Earthmaw’s tremorsense. Visually though, we can see a large tower-like sandstone rock sticking from below. We see a few small openings near the top that catch our interest, and we can also see long, stone slabs projecting from its 4 sides like spokes, each connecting to a smaller rounded projection coming out of the 2 sides of the valley.

As we approach the center rock, the sand stirs in front of us and a number of humanoid mummy-like creatures rise from the sands, along with a pair of large, eyeless serpentine creatures made from stonelike chitin. Each mummy moves strangely, and when we engage them we figure out why. As Howler is grabbing one with his harpoons, its skin peels off and the musculature underneath it climbs out, followed by the nailed-together skeleton within extracting itself from further within. The number of enemies has tripled, and now we’ve got a fight on our hands.

We dispatch the mummies without much trouble (though the diseased musculature undead were tougher than expected), but even Earthmaw is getting tossed back and forth by the worms. One of the worms manages to bite onto Earthmaw and swallows him. Earthmaw bites from within to try to dig his way out, and Echo manages to make his 50% miss chance to hit it with a sonic lance. The creature dies and falls forward, vomiting Earthmaw and a great jet stream of sand and metal powder in a small cone, ripping poor 9 HP Echo to a bloody skeleton in seconds. Echo is dead. ;_;

Howler’s dexterity poison manages to fell the other worm, and we pick up Echo’s gem and proceed to the tower, where we search it and discover buried in the sand a small vent opening, which we further widen to enter. Inside we’re relieved to see the familiar symbol of our master hanging on the wall over a sparsely decorated entry area. We explore the floor we’re on without any particular trouble, taking note that it mostly appears to be a living space for a handful of people. Each room is in fairly good condition and looks as though it has not been used recently, though there is little to no dust, cobwebs, or similar signs of age to be found. Echo’s ability to detect the “sound” of magic would be useful right now.

The next floor is a different story, its filled with various statues, taxidermied creatures, and a vast library. While we’re exploring, we hear a noise and upon searching find a small, doll-like man sweeping up one of the upper levels of the library. We approach him and he pays us no heed. Close up, we see he’s made up of stitched together pieces of skin and hide, with a featureless face and a hose-like tube coming out of his lower back connecting him to the opposite wall.

Our efforts to provoke a response prove fruitless; the only response we gain is from dropping books off the shelves, which he then picks up, and replaces. After this, he walks back into the small alcove in the wall the tube is coming from, and goes inert.

We explore the rest of the main tower and find a large number of inexplicable, zombie-like constructs, empty cages, alchemical laboratories, and empty residences. We’re all pretty stupefied, and our best guess is that its some kind of base, possibly for his allies. The fact he has allies is a step forward in our minds, though some of the players seem disappointed in the “lich necromancer” aspect seeming to be true once again. Once we reach the top (where we’d seen the first outer openings), we find a slab similar to the one in Kinholme manor, but it opens when we touch it. Inside is a lavishly decorated bedroom, attached to a small (empty) garden bed exposed to the sunlight through a painted glass ceiling, attached to what seems to be a large meeting room (as a large U shaped table takes up the majority). There are a few more of the “sweeping men” here, as well as a pair of larger, golem-like humanoids standing in front of a massive clear tank full of a turquoise gel-like material. The tank has an upward-pointing tube that ends in a small bowl. We approach the tank, and when the golems don’t respond to our movement we carefully fill up one of my metal tubes with the gel. We decide we have 4 more towers to explore, and get moving.

--Current--

It should be noted that Echo was our searcher, and had the majority of our "awareness" in both gear and abilities. Not having him handy means we might have missed a lot.

At least it wasn't Earthmaw. Think a lot would be disappointed by that.

Hearing about this game is always a highlight for the day. Sorry about Echo. Your DM clearly knows how to run exciting games.

Did I read that correctly that you fought some kind of crazy Russian nesting doll mummies? Totally fucking stolen.

"The mummy's wrappings unravel, taking life of their own. The bare, dessicated flesh beneath seems to pulsate and throb until the skeleton within rips its way out with a sickening crunch. The wrappings form a loose outline of a human body, floating on their own; the skeleton stands ready to lunge; and the flesh of the mummy binds itself back together, apparently no worse for being stripped of its skeleton..."

Good lawd, I want to hear moar of the exploits of our monstrous protagonists

Aww...poor Echo. Are you guys going to end up doing the same thing you did with Howler, and put him in a new body when you find a suitable one?

>>1231316
Yeah, he was screaming "SAND WORM BODY SAND WORM BODY THE SPICE" But we convinced him that even if it worked the size was impractical.

Let's get this thing archived early.

4chanarchive.org/brchive/main.php?mode=submit

>>1231326
lol. Although I bet his character is going to freak the fuck out if you end up putting him in a creature which can, y'know, actually -see-.

Delicious Red Crawler update is delicious. Preemptively tasked for archival. Also, crazy fucking mummy-muscle-skeleton turducken is crazy. And poor Echo... I love the use of soul-stones to allow the players to continue on after dying. I may have to borrow that.

>>1231327
http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/1231166/

Jesus christ those mummys sound fucking terrifying. Fighting the skin, wrapings AND bones all at once? Ugh.

Great campaign though, you have one awesome DM.

>>1231350
This thread is made of win. Cool story, badass characters... and a reference to the most Epic Poultry ever devised.

>>1231342
Ha! Prolly. One of our main goals though is to find him a body with hands, we are desperately lacking them, and my antennae while prehensile rust a lot of things we'd need hands to mess with.

headin out there now, next update should be a big one since the DM is off work tomorrow.

Needs More Updates

The campaign of win continues.

Too bad about losing Echo's range of abilities and long range sonic attacks. Now there's even more suspense waiting to see what sort of body you can find for him. The gem/soulstone trick is a really good mechanic however. You die permanently, losing your cherished body forever, but you get to continue from roughly the same place in another body. How is Howler liking his harpoon spider? I think it sounds pretty awesome if lacking in the special abilities the rest of you have like rusting armor and burrowing. Do you think he could spin useful things out of spider web?

Unfortunately this update didn't have a lot of rust monster action in it! When will you get to break into a blacksmiths home, ruining his business while he sleeps? Can you post Red Crawlers abilities and stats as well? I'm not sure quite what and how he works. Like how smart is he and what attacks do you have?

>>1232029
Harpoon spiders lack the ability to make thread. A summoning ooze would be awesome for Echo to become. He also wouldn't have to worry about freaking about due to the sudden ability to see.

>>1232029
he said in 3rd thread that he doesnt post his own exploits when they're not exciting or important bc it leads to people people saging bc of namefag gloating

>>1232029
Red Crawler's sheet from earlier in the week is on RS.

so...what happens if you use that gem on an adventurer?

>>1232155
I think it only works on non-intelligent, non-sentient monsters.

>>1232136
Thanks, getting that now.

>>1232158
Which raises the question of how they'd find a critter with hands.

>>1232158
GELATINOUS CUBE

>>1232158
Destrachans start with 12 int, so there's something else to what they can control.

So far there's been confirmation that it doesn't work on: things with 0 int, corpses, and sentient humanoids.

Could always try one of the golems...

>>1232198
Too slow, he says.

I always liked blink dogs, personally...

>>1232136
I love the way Red Crawler wears saddle backs and keeps a "Snack Bag of Delicious Treats (Coins)"

>>1232158
i'm currently wishing for someone to turn into an ooze or something, then become a goo girl.

Hey remember to get back home before that bride starves to death. The an again chances of her escaping or being rescued are quite high I'd say...

>>1232341
They literally left her with "a pile of meat"

>>1232344
So she'll be dead of food poisoning instead of starvation?

>>1232344
I'm pretty sure I read somewhere that humans like meat.

>>1232258
If he's looking for hands, a Splinterwaif (Monster Manual 3) could work. Fits the monster theme, low CR, hands. The only problem I could see is their high intelligence. It clocks in at an 18. Still, a cool monsterous fey.

>>1232348
That'd prolly solve their trouble in figuring out what to do with her at least.

>>1232258

Zezir has hands, and could be dangerously hilarious.

needs a god damn beholder

So, first the 2 side towers we explore are empty, it’s a big open cylinder all the way down about 300 feet, about which 50 feet by our guess is below the sand. We see there’s another small opening near the bottom, so they connect to somewhere else underground. We decide to finish the other 2 towers before we head down there. Well the 3rd tower is different right off the bat because its magically sealed closed. As we’re lacking in the magic department, my acid and Earthmaw’s bulk batter the hatch apart over the course of a few minutes.

Inside the place glows different colored lights from all directions, like my carapace ability. We explore the place and see it has big clear pipes snaking across sections of the walls filled with the green/blue gel shit (now we’re getting curious), and we see there’s shit swimming in it. We decide to get away from the disconcerting tube and have a look around. Whole place is full of benches, tables, shelves, etc connected level by level by ladders leading to the bottom. The bottom level is simply a massive series of snaking clear tubes that connect to the rest of the tower, along with the hatch to the underground section.

We climb back up and check out the 4th tower, and encounter similar circumstances, though one of the tubes is broken and there’s a skeleton lying on the ground that looks like a snake, but it has an arm (we know what this is, but our monsters don’t). The rest of this tower is smashed to shit, tables flipped and broken, glass everywhere, etc. We agree this place is a lab of some kind.

We enter the bottom hatch, and see it is a narrow clear glass tube. I volunteer to go in first since I’m the smallest and have longest range, and Howler uses his remaining dog corpse to “grease up” Earthmaw so he can squeeze into the tube. We have to take our time due of Earthmaw’s leg reducing his speed, but after crawling through the tube surrounded in sand for a few dozen feet, it angles down and we slide, falling flat into a large open room, through several feet of cobwebs and a few inches of sand. The place is falling apart, and it takes Earthmaw’s hefty strength to force one of the four doors around us open.

We proceed down the hall with the least dust/cobwebs in front of it, and the place is a veritable maze of hallways. Thankfully we don’t run across any traps but we don’t take any risks while I have point. As we go through the halls, we find rooms filled with clear tubes, many books that Earthmaw doesn’t understand, and more than a few alchemy labs. We make our way to another major intersection.

This time, Howler leads the way and I provide support as he carefully taps walls and the like with his legs. Eventually the hall leads into a metal-lined windowed (on one side) room, and we see four desiccated human figures slouched over tables and overturned beakers. Looking out the window, we see what looks like a large basin in another room with sunken blocks taken out of its floor, about 10 feet deep.

As we look out the window, Howler jokingly spears one of the corpses, and it leaps to motion, skin peeling back, muscles climbing out, and its skeleton skittering across the floor and up the wall. Its eyes climb on nerve-stalks from the dead sockets, and it the decaying organs burst, spraying pus and bile between the gristle and sinew as it screams and we hear other voices springing to life or unlife. Even the puddles of bile congeal into slimes that try to surround us.

We dispatch a good number of them, then we see something else coming down the hall. It looks like a large solid black quadruped shape with a large inky gray tube in its back. From its back are connected a series of lighting-bolt like cords of black energy connecting to the corpses. We smash our way through the entourage around it (with one of the nerve-eye stalk undead gouging out one of Howler’s eyes in the process and trying to climb in), and Earthmaw clamps his jaws down onto its head and bull rushes it into the wall with all of his might, smashing through the metal wall, plummeting a good 20 feet onto the metal basin below. The tube on its back breaks open and the cords of energy disappear, the undead around it falling back to the ground inert. It struggles to stand while its being pinned, and I run in full speed and push the soul gem onto its neck. It stops struggling, and we excitedly welcome Echo back.

DM calls dinner break while he writes up stats.
---

We're all pretty lost. We've got the sense this place is pretty massive, but right now it looks like one big alchemy lab (Howler has declared we're in racoon city). Its pretty clear at least we're not dealing with the "standard necromancer" at least.

>>1232703
"metal wall"
Doesn't that sound tasty? To a rust monster that's like a cake wall.

>>1232727
More than enough to eat, I don't chase after every bit of iron ore. However, more than a few pouches of coins have gone missing under my watch.

>>1232703
what monster is that?

>>1232752
I'm curious too.

Sheet says "Blood-leash Controller", think its one of his customs.

That said, the abilities look interesting. Ability to deal con damage via siphoning blood from someone at a range, ability to force someone to move with a save, ability to send people into rages, etc.

If Earthmaw/Howler are damage dealers, and I'm a debuffer it looks like this one is a leader/controller type.

Back to the game, next update might not be till tomorrow depending on when we call it quits.

Seriously, those hideous piles of conglomerate undeath are fucking cool.

Can anyone give me a link to the first of this?

>>1233350
This is a link to the story recap from the first 4-5 threads.
http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/1219564/

stealing those mummies

Don't suppose you could convince the DM to share his delicious three-layer mummy recipe with us.

>>1232348
I lol'd at the abandoned bride.

I'm just waiting for todays update now.

After a million threads of broken character builds, STAT MEs, and Alignment BS, I've developed an overpowering hatred of D&D in particular and D20 in general.

And then a thread like this comes along.

>>1235776
...and we realise we could have done all of this in any other system.

>>1232695
>a skeleton lying on the ground that looks like a snake, but it has an arm (we know what this is, but our monsters don’t)

Trogdor?

>>1235878
My guess was it is a Ravid, especially the way the room is described. Which would mean the blue stuff they keep running across is positive energy of some kind.

>>1235802
Ya say that like its a bad thing. I don't think anyone is watching these threads just because they're dnd, but cause they're a fairly unique style, and more than "i full attack the ____ for ___ damage"

>>1235878
TROGDOOOOOOR

>>1235878
of course! why didn't i see that?!

/r/ stats for Trogdor, please.

the strongtards have taken hold of this thread. must cleanse.

>>1236210
What?

Holy shit you have the best DM ever.

This game freaking makes me grin every time it's posted. Seriously.

>>1239011
Me too, man, me too.

So in the sake of balance, I'm going to troll this thread. Ahem...

FUCKING CRAWLERFAGS. OOOH BOY, IT'S SO ORIGINAL PLAYAN MONSTERS LOLOLOL. TOO BAD YOU HAVE TO DEAL WITH FAGGOT DM'S HOMEBREW.

There we go. That should balance out the love. Now, more Red Crawler and company! Every time I see that little rust monster, I get excited for the next part of the story.

>>1239023
>Now, more Red Crawler and company!

Hear! Hear! Hell, I suggest we make this thread a sticky!

>>1232198
2nd-ed

Howler => Displacer Beast

Wow I'm surprised this thread is still active. Forgot to update tonight, but i'll post some tomorrow, and try to convince DM to give me his Blood-leashed controller / mummy recipes.

New Echo kicks some major ass.

>>1239444
Hey DM, the internet wants your monsters.

I need to hear more of this awesome game. Also make this a sticky.

Blood-Leash Controller
Medium Aberration
Init +5; Senses Blindsight 60 ft.; Listen +14
AC 19, touch 11, flat-footed 18
hp 126 (12 HD)
Fort +6, Ref +5, Will +7
Speed 30 ft. (6 squares)
Ranged Blood Thread +10 (Special)
Melee Bite +8 (1d4-1)
Space 5 ft.; Reach 5 ft.
Base Atk +9; Grp +8
Atk Options Blood Flow, Blood Siphon
Special Actions Blood Clot, Blood Feed, Induce Tranquility
Abilities Str 8, Dex 13, Con 14, Int 16, Wis 9, Cha 19
SQ Fast Healing 1, Hardy, Blood Threads (4 Threads, 60 ft.), Thread Link
Feats Ability Boost (Threads), Ability Boost (Siphon), Improved Initiative, Improved Toughness, Track
Skills Bluff +14, Hide +11, Jump +10, Move Silently +11, Search +7, Survival +14

Blood Clotting (Su): When you have an established blood thread link to an ally or allies, you may cure up to one point of ability damage as a standard action. When you cure this ability damage, you suffer an equal penalty in return. Additionally, use of this ability automatically stabilizes an injured ally.
Blood Feed (Su): When you have an established blood thread link to an ally or allies, you may transfer your health to them as a standard action. For every 2 points of damage you deal to yourself, your allies heal one point of damage. If this ability is used on more than one ally, each ally must receive an equal amount of healing.
Blood Flow (Su): When you have an established blood thread link to an individual, you may continually draw blood from them. This attack is a full-round action to initiate on any number of linked creatures, and a swift action to maintain thereafter. Foes struck with this ability bleed out of their orifices rapidly, suffering a cumulative 1-point of damage per round the effect is maintained.

>>1242112
Blood Siphon (Su): When you have an established blood thread link to an individual, you may forcibly extract blood from their bodies, rupturing veins and causing 1 point of constitution damage similarly to a Wounding weapon. You may siphon any number of thread-linked enemies as a standard action. Additionally, you heal 3 points of damage per constitution damage dealt this way.
Blood Threads (Su): As a standard action, you may extend a thread of blood from your body to attempt to link yourself to an individual as a ranged touch attack within 60 feet (DC 22 Fort negates if struck). If successful, you maintain your blood link for as long as you remain within 60 feet of that individual. Each round, you may choose to channel a number of effects through your blood link, and may freely decide which linked individuals receive which effects. You may maintain a maximum number of linked threads equal to your charisma modifier.
Hardy Constitution (Ex) Unlike normal aberrations, a blood-leash controller has a D12 hit die.
Induce Tranquility (Su): When you have an established blood thread link to an individual, you may Calm them (DC 20 Will negates), as per the spell calm emotions as a full-round action that provokes an attack of opportunity.
Thread Link (Su): You may communicate with thread-linked individuals as per Telepathy. Additionally, as a move-equivalent action you may tap into their senses, seeing out of their eyes, or hearing from their ears. You may not tap into supernatural senses in this manner

The Blood Feed 2 to 1 tradeoff is pretty harsh, but I guess it keeps it from being too powerful.

The overall damage is pretty bad, but once the thread is on a few guys I guess the damage will start to rack up. It says Blood Flow does 1 cumulative damage per round. Does that mean it does increasing damage (1,2,3) or just 1 damage every round?
Just seems like using these abilities would take a lot of time in combat since you first have to create the threads and then start other abilities. Induce Tranquility is probably the best since you can keep powerful foes from attacking at all.
Good charisma though! Suddenly talking it out IS an option.

>>1242281
What blood flow description doesn't say is that universal +damage modifiers increase it. So if you have +4 to all damage you deal, you'd start at 5, then 6, then 7, etc to up to as many targets as you have cha mod (so long as they're all linked). Its a so-so ability that needs time to scale up.

Also, it doesn't say it but he can make multiple thread attachments as a full attack since he has +7/+2 bab.

The calm only lasts for 1 round, and so far we've only used it to cure fear on allies since it can't be used in combat as crowd control (the blood threads on foes are a hostile action, they instantly void it because they're still attached).

Husk Mummy
As Mummy, with:
Engulf (Su): A fully extracted Husk Mummy may engulf a humanoid corpse. After remaining motionless for 24 hours, the corpse within the body rapidly decays and corrupts, turning into a Gristleman and Boneman. Additionally, there is a 2% per corpse hit die chance that both a Gouger and Gutslime will form.
Extract (Ex): As a full-round action, a Husk Mummy may split into its individual components. After this ability has been used, the Husk Mummy loses half its maximum health. If this would reduce the Husk Mummy to 0 hp, it is destroyed. As a full-round action, the component pieces may recombine and reenter the body.


Gristleman
Medium Undead
Init +7; Senses Blindsight 30 ft.; Listen +7, Spot +8
AC 17, touch 17, flat-footed 10
hp 67 (8 HD)
Fort Fails automatically, Ref +9, Will +8
Traits Quickness, Undead Traits
Weakness All
Speed 60 ft. (12 squares)
Melee 2 Slams +7 (1d6+3+1 vile+Red Aches) and Bite +2 (1d8+3+1 vile+Red Aches)
Space 5 ft.; Reach 5 ft.
Base Atk +4; Grp +7
Abilities Str 16, Dex 24, Con -, Int 4, Wis 13, Cha 6
Skills Hide +7, Move Silently +7

Quickness (Su): Gristlemen can take an extra standard action or move action during its turn each round

Boneman
As human skeleton with max hp, with move and climb speed 40 ft., and vulnerability to sonic and acid damage, and can throw pieces of itself for (1d6+2) B/P/S damage, dealing an equal amount to itself.


Gutslime
Small ochre jelly, carries filth fever.

Gouger
No idea, but its only attack was an eye gouge that did 1d4+1 con damage when it succeeded and tried to climb into the socket for an unknown effect.

They're like multipack enemies. If you take a husk mummy by surprise and kill it before it can separate into 3 they all die then?

I also suppose there's a reason they don't come preseparated like the gristleman and boneman only last for 24 hours outside the mummy or something?

>>1242742
no idea. He prolly left it out if so because we're still in the dungeon these things are located in, and we've yet to kill one before it splits.