New Competition, 1.5k, 4 players Options

[Martinj]

In keeping with the recently resurrected 3k competition…

For a laugh 4 of you picked a fun theme and booked onto a Myths…the dungeon is already written but at the last minute all of the other players have dropped out! You’re stuck with the theme, and there’s no time for new points apps now – so you need to stay true to your original plan but be as tough and flexible as possible, as the dungeon won’t be rewritten!

So, you'll need 4 characters each at 1500pts, standard spend only. You’re all rebirths etc, so one of them can have a multiclass of their choice for free, another can have a multirace at half cost, and the other two can be non-standard race/class combos. Those that can use them can have a magic or spirit weapon and/or a handful of teaching scrolls/scriptures. All characters can join guilds.

Competition closes on Monday evening at midnight - get to work!

[SiDeards]

Too much work therefore I'm out!

[Martinj]

Too much work therefore I'm out!

Wimp

[Ryan]

I am two spends in will offer up my plan for world tedium tomorrow.

[RichardCraig]

I feel like you are all gythianki, of various classes, you have sucked up the points tax and bought +1 strength each, one of you is a scout which has gone well equipped healing, one is a warrior who has gone seer, then you have a wizard ebony/black and a dominion priest.

you amuse yourself by smashing every encounter in rotation using 21 power each, then you Neuromastery 100ft and two people start medding, in your spend is x3 (you've gone devout priest/thamaturge) while the other two hold you for an hour. Everybody has 6 foci so this costs you 72 life as the group, you drink some 6 points (from your well equipped stash).

You phys rep this by just going and sitting in the monster house for an hour drinking beer.

As psycic powers med back even faster your comming warrior just greater precogs every 15 minutes in the morning while you wait for the monsters to get out of bed, he writes a list of encounters that you will meet during the day.

Mainly you find the hardest monster parts and then control them spiritually so in the end you actually have a full party to help you out.

If it ever gets too tough you all just NSJ to nipple mountain which you phys rep by going to the monster house and getting smashed.

You've also all bought see through darkness, so you can be real tedious and sit in one of need be.

The wizard has pass unknown so deals with everything that can be effected by that.

if you dont fly over it.

Your warrior is a base of deullist and has 6pts off swords, you also slowly steal all the maces as the week goes on.

The scout has also gone well equipped poison and general, occasionally when the monsters feel like they have got you in a hole you feed the thamaturge the enhanced endurance so he can overcast loads. The monsters never know that and think everybody is cheating.

He amuses himself by putting IV death into all the main roleplay parts drinks.

You're known as team tedious.

[Dave]

I'm in

[Ryan]

Black Op’s –

Craigy organised the oft talked about never envisioned team of professional mercenaries as the event but everyone booked off last minute when they heard Wiffenator (Ref) gave Huw (Monster) the stats 2 months early then Cotter and Covington booked to Crew last minute… The 4 remaining members will be playing a 4 man well rounded unit with various tedious outlets to deal with any over statting.

They can all see in the Dark and they can all be immune to spirit sight every now and then - they will break the darkness tedium if the Monsters look like going home only to pick it up again in 3 encounters time! They have tricks galore and prot. evil / elemental warding.

All members will be Monster Pointing their patented Black Op’s Tabards that Tim T made them for monstering the week before… 9/3 Life, 1 DAC, 1 PAC…

THE SCOUT -
Standard Noclo Rogue (As Human). Gains Archmage for Free in Rebirth

Deals with traps and Evaluates everything with Tomb Robber; the party are expecting the Referee’s to be generous with use of Enhanced evaluate given the numbers. He is a shade specialist liking Dark Binding, and Embody Elemental (he’s probably going to rob all his mates for summon shade 6 scrolls) – Carries daggers and shield depending on where he has to be in the group. Tinker for immune to thru on the Warrior! He has ebon tendrils for Elementals and undead night carnage!

51 / 18 Life, AC 9, 8pts Combat Wary, 106 Mana, 10 Casting Levels.

1st – 8th Noclo;
1/2 Effect Light Damage, 8th Level Dark Elf Innates, Gains Black as Colour although a Rogue
Rogue Skills;
Combat Wary / Athlete / Stealth / 1WM Daggers / Chosen of the Dragon

Rebirth 10
Max AC in MC 15
Utilise Small Shield 50
1 Max AC 60
34 Mana 160
Discern Associated 20
Greater Aware Double Med 190
2 Levels of Combat Wary 45
2 Back Stab 90
See Through Darkness 120
Tomb Robber 60
Solitaire 125
Immune Magic / Spirit info 360
Ghost 125
Tinker 60
Total 1490pts


THE WIZARD –

Standard – Dark Elf – High Grey Wizard (Non Standard Race Class Combo)

Has access to some show spells and is the lynch pin of the big encounters with casting levels for Dispel 20 and Annihilation – otherwise he helps out with a plethora of useful other spells like Plate and Walk Thru’s. Relies on See Thru to be in the Darkness hit Squad – couldn’t fit in Senseless vision which has really pissed him off! He also has Mana Form / Dancing Axe Tedium and Walk on Darkness other for Emergency Evac.
Arcanum (Mana and Comms), Deci Gents (Pass Unknowns and more darkness), Blunt Club (Herbal Infusion).
50 / 16 Life, AC 3, 183 Mana, 20 Casting Levels. 9th Level Resistances

1st – 8th Dark Elf (with Double);
16 Affirms, 8 Darkness, 4 Shadow Shift

Rebirth 10
36 Mana 160
Discern Associated 20
Greater Aware Double Med 190
Archmage 550
2nd Colour Black 100
Magical Focus 45
Advocate 100
6 Casting Levels 270
Double Innates 60
Total 1505pts - He is over but says it’s ok because the Rogue was under and if the Ref notices he won’t own up to Discern Associated and use paper!


THE HEALER –

Duidoin Pure Priest (Non Standard Race Class)…

Spirit Form and Rod of Power are in there for his own enjoyment as well as loads of Med he binned off devotion Total heal because the warrior was an idiot and got ½ a spirit. He bought all his snatch Vitae innates as they basically kill a tough Monster… He decided on Northern Man to get his see thru darkness and ½ FX Magic. He does a section uses 58 spirits then gets 56 back in two hours… Knows Total Heal but hopes to use it sparingly. He really wants a pure weapon as his myths item…

Dead Heroes (He venerates the spirit of the 12 other players), Deci Gents (Pass Unknown / Darkness) Blunt Club (Herbal Infusion)
62 / 23 Life, AC 5, 9th Level Resistances

Rebirth 10pts
4th North Man 650pts
6th Devout Priest 335pts
Wizard Med 30pts
Gtr Aware Double 190pts
4 x Snatch Vitae 80pts
Triple Med (28 per Hour) 100pts
Resist Avenging Spirit 50pts
1 to Causing 50pts
Total 1495pts


THE WARRIOR –

Standard – Human Grey Knight - Non Standard Rebirth – Half Cost buying Elder fey

He has gone for interesting over tough relying on 100% vitae and Rebirth (hoping for something tougher) - Spirit Invis, Spirit Shield, Fear Evil, Displacement and Darkness in his repertoire he only really wants to fight when he knows he will win or the parts do BWT + 1, relying on everyone else to pull their weight basically. He took the spiritual discerns and gauge spirit to help out his healer mate.

Front Line (Rage, Roll with it, Bulking) / In Purity (Loads of Helpful stuff for undead night) / Blunt Club (Herbal Infusion)
94 / 33 Life, AC 12, 9th Level Resistances

1st – 8th Human Grey Knight;
Use Spirit Item, 1WM, Chosen of Faithful – 1/4 Spirit Shield, ¼ Prot Evil, ¼ Rune of Power, ¼ Minor Ward, ¼ Spirit Invis.

Rebirth 10
3pts Max AC 75
2nd Mastery Sword 55
Strength 70
12 / 4 Life 85
See Thru Darkness 120
Elder Fey (Fear Evil @ Will and Darkness) 275
Major – Displacement (3 Total) 90
Minor - Gauge Spirit (For wardings) 40
Warcries 90
Enh. Discern Sp. Aura and Undead 90
Spirit Shield 30
Prot Evil 30
Rune of Power 40
Minor Ward 40
Spirit Invis x 3 150
1 to TOD, Avenging Spirit, 1/2 Black 200
Total 1490pts

[BBB]

Ahem, 160pts gets you +34 Mana, not +36... Otherwise, nice....

BBB

[Rob]

4 winter elf wizards with winter barbarian....

When I have time I will dig out the myths part competition thread - that was funny

[Martinj]

4 winter elf wizards with winter barbarian....

When I have time I will dig out the myths part competition thread - that was funny

I remember that Myths thread, there was some really good stuff. I'm unconvinced on your winter spend though - could they really handle everything the Myths might throw at them over the course of a week? Would you be able to move the plot along without the ability to resolve any spiritual stuff that comes along?

[Rob]

Ok ok....

4 power masters all multi race angel.

Parries, magic and spirit damage, walk through walls, flying, rockskin and total heals...

Pedant

[Ryan]

Ok ok....

4 power masters all multi race angel.

Parries, magic and spirit damage, walk through walls, flying, rockskin and total heals...

Pedant

They all have the 4 different elements and their myths item are rings that give them power ups and once per day summon a super angel called Captain Planet?

[Martinj]

Good stuff so far

Craigy's party loses points for not showing his work and for concentrating on surviving rather than completing the Myths (we all know you can't just fly over the section). His party really struggles on the inevitable undead night as the Wights just shift up to where he's flying! The attrition also gets through his lack of locational healing.

Ryan's party do much better, but get screwed in the Gythanki encounter as they don't have any Neuronic defences or any Neuronic damage - damn those last hits! Bonus points for ref/monster backstory, lose points for the theme being 'be really tough'. They cope well in undead night, but it gets hairy a couple of times. The monsters get very annoyed with the constant darkness/warding combos. There are a number of deaths when Rob 'what warding?' Benson turns up on day 3. The Duidoin pure priest gets blown up for cheating as triple med is on table 10, and most players are covered in cuts and bruises from the JCs fighting with their eyes closed - "if you want us to pull our blows, don't make it so we have to close our eyes".

[Rob]

Found it!

Weirdly I thought it was much longer ago than 2009...

http://www.labyrinthe.co.uk/forum/index.ph...Buffy&st=20

Enjoy - still makes me chuckle although many of the in jokes and old cavies it refers to are forgotten!

R

[Martinj]

Ok ok....

4 power masters all multi race angel.

Parries, magic and spirit damage, walk through walls, flying, rockskin and total heals...

Pedant

Power Masters can't standardly multirace Angel

Come on mate, where's the Rob that gave us the Troll Vampire!?

A.N.Other Pedant

[Rob]

Details details!

Rob of Troll Vampire fame sat in a surveillance car for 60 hours a week and was single :-)

This Rob barely has time to drink his coffee!

R

[Ryan]

Ryan's party do much better, but get screwed in the Gythanki encounter as they don't have any Neuronic defences or any Neuronic damage - damn those last hits! Bonus points for ref/monster backstory, lose points for the theme being 'be really tough'. They cope well in undead night, but it gets hairy a couple of times. The monsters get very annoyed with the constant darkness/warding combos. There are a number of deaths when Rob 'what warding?' Benson turns up on day 3. The Duidoin pure priest gets blown up for cheating as triple med is on table 10, and most players are covered in cuts and bruises from the JCs fighting with their eyes closed - "if you want us to pull our blows, don't make it so we have to close our eyes".

Sounds like the best week ever - and for the record my spirit formed priest and mana formed wizard ruined those githyanki while the other two hid in the toilets...

[Martinj]

Sounds like the best week ever - and for the record my spirit formed priest and mana formed wizard ruined those githyanki while the other two hid in the toilets...

...then got killed when their mana/spirit forms ran out, because one of the gyths had last hit Neuronic. They tried running away, but Huw was playing the Gyth, he remained patient, commed, and hunted the party down later that day and murdered them with Neuronic pens through a window

[giles]

...then got killed when their mana/spirit forms ran out, because one of the gyths had last hit Neuronic. They tried running away, but Huw was playing the Gyth, he remained patient, commed, and hunted the party down later that day and murdered them with Neuronic pens through a window

Done that myths (though to be fair it was Walk through Walls and Death blow - happy days)

Now back to my 4 player Awakener team plan (possibly need Robin of Sherwood quartet as a backup)

Giles.

[giles]

The Gauntlet Machine

The ‘No Food’ Myths Party
So the plan was everyone on the Myths was going to play Rasha – so you’d all get stupid amounts of innates for eating some crisps in the morning. Then the party started arguing over what sounded cooler – ‘incoming’ or ‘heads up,’ an argument which took in the fricative shift (swearing whilst teleporting) and the periphrastic ‘do’ before most of the party booked off to attend Pestival (a music festival entirely devoted to bands named after insects, where everyone has an exclusion order) or the opening of QueueWorld (a theme park where the queues are the attraction). There are just 4 of you left, so with a bit of work you have become:

The Gauntlet Machine
Motto: Elf indiget cibo male (there is no latin word for elf)

Unfortunately the Mother also hasn’t turned up (went with some of the other players to Queue World), and the players realise quite early on that the refs haven’t written all of the event – instead one of them goes out early to buy food which they then make the party forage for as part of the dungeon (as soon as they found out none of the party were Rangers).

Thor – the Warrior
You got the e-mail about being food-based but didn’t know about all being Rasha. Like everyone else you are not happy about the food situation, and like every other tribal refer to yourself in the 3rd person leading to the echo across the Welsh hills of ‘Warrior needs more food badly.’
Half Ogre Paladin of Eruldine
Light & Truth 70
½ effect Blunt 190
Rebirth 10
+1 Max AC in MC 15
MC Power House 1-6 310
Battlemaster O Class 660
Monastic Tradition 60
Distancing & Enhanced Distancing: 185
TOTAL:1500
Guilds: Shadow Legion, Knights of the Land, Knights of Legend
136/54 AC: 12 Spirit Quin in O, DAC5 PAC7

Questor – the Elf
The only reason you are here is because there was a rumour that Warren was doing the food. You’ve got no intention of running anywhere, you just use your Fear Evil 6 Levels@will to keep monsters at bay whilst you shoot them. You’ve got a massive stash of biscuits and Lembas Dependency to justify it – this is stolen/hidden halfway through the myths due to the mother situation causing you to stomp around the Welsh hills shouting ‘Elf needs food badly’ whilst shooting people in the face
Aquatic Elven Pathfinder. You use Detect Fluid all the time to find those little yellow jugs of cider.
Rebirth 10
Multi Race Elder Fey 220 (Minor Talent Enhanced Rec Mana, Major Talent: Fear Evil 6 Levels@wil)
MC Archer 120
x2 & x3 Elven Innates – 130
3/4/5th WM with bow -170
Skill Level in Make Lembas +2 55
Mercenary Alchemist 50
Read Glyphs 20
+1 Skill Level in General Potions 20
Dabbler 80
Herbalist 50
Lembas Recipe 10
Herbal Infusion 35
Deadening Elixir Recipe 35
12pt Recipe 10
+1 MC Max AC 15
+1 Max AC 20
Learned 40
+2 Skill Levels in Make General 45
Alchemical Specialisation in General 100
+2 Skill Levels in Make Healing 45
Extra Minor Talent 50 (3 x Cure Serious Wounds)
Brew the Wondrous 40
TOTAL: 1375 pts leaving 125 pts to spend on Spirit/Magical (up to 2nd/3rd)
Dabbler Innates or a few more recipes.
Guilds: Shadow Legion or Shadow Pockets, Enclave, Knights of the Land
69/24 AC: 9 6 with bow, you’ve got a few magical and spiritual innates, but mostly you bake biscuits as lembas using Mercenary Alchemist, you also made a load of Calming Herbs – you probably should have been a Dark Elf but they’re not green.

Thyra – the Valkyrie
Rasha Friar of Eruldine
Rebirth – 10
Disc Assoc 20
Remember Unknown Undead 30
+1 MC Max AC 15
3 x Extra Level of Spirits – 150
Res to ToD 50
Res to Avenging Spirit 50
X 2 Med Rate 50
Devout Priest 360
Yeoman 1-9 270
+2 WM
Devotion 80
Prayer to Aid 120
Major Sphere Healing Minor Force 40
9 x Innate Heals 180
TOTAL: 1500
64/21 AC:7 Triple with staff, 57 Spirits, x 3 Med
Minor Elder Fey talent: 3 x Cure Serious Wounds
You keep stealing Questors biscuits as a flimsy excuse for you and Merlin to have a meal (as you haven’t brought Greater Aware Med)

Merlin – the Wizard
Rebirth: Rasha High Red Wizard, gains Mancer for free
Rebirth: 10
Enhanced Rebirth: 20
Disc Assoc. 20
5 Levels Mana: 210
Draconic Advocate: 125
Elemental App, Adept, Master: 275
Aware Med: 60
X2 Med 50
Greater Aware Med 80
Disc Assoc Innates 30
Thaumaturge 1-3 190
Resistance to Avenging Spirit 50
Specialisation: Disruption 60
8 x Disruption Innates: 288
Spell Mastery Chains of Fire 40
Mantic Chains of Fire: 55
Total: 1499
Blunt Club
Elder Fey Minor Talent: Neuronic Penetration 1/Level calculated at 6th.
Despite wearing a yellow robe, Merlin is a Rasha Red Wizard. You have 161 Mantic Mana, 14 Casting Levels, Greater Aware Med at x3, 47/17
You play your High Wizard restriction that combat is to be avoided to the full (all that time you are standing around talking you’re getting 3 mana back every 15 minutes) – the monsters know this and try to start fights after 10 minutes – enabling you to rain down firey mantic death. You cast mantic Chains of Fire a lot, or there’s always your Disruption innates, you’ve even got 6 Neuro pens just in case. You’ve also got Fireblast innates from being a Rasha & 2 Mystic Honey potions from Blunt Club to get back those levels from Chains of Fire

Much of the time the party spend stealing each others store of biscuits – when there are some encounters to fight they unleash as both the power users have 3x Med Rate +Calming Herbs from Questor & whenever they stop for a meal Thyra can use the ‘Meal Blessing.’ The whole ‘Rasha’ thing didn’t work, but everyone gets 2 innates of their choosing – Merlin and Thyra are understandably bitter that they lost out on Guild benefits.
The four of you monstered for Team Tedious earlier in the thread - so you retaliate by keeping all the monster swords so they can only use maces to fight Thor. All of the party forgot to buy Res to ToD except Thyra – which she uses to blackmail Questor into giving them Calming Herbs whenever the ref sets a recurring ‘Death’ (played by Flanagan in a Scream outfit)– so ‘she’ (Thyra is clearly played by a male player) takes it and the creature dissipates. Eventually a JC turns up to monster, they play 2 Deaths and the party wipes.