A Thorn In The Hand OOC

[D_Man_7733]

Sense Motive: (1d20+5)[18]
"NOOO! that was my favourite hat... were did that hummingbird go? I want to give him a taste of eldritch might"

3-days later

"Wait a minute... I don't own a hat!"

[Malak'ai]

**As you come to rest by an overly large willow tree, a large yellow, wide brimmed hat appears magically on your head, the sounds of a river just of in the distance almost being drowned out by a female's singing voice.
You look round and notice four small figures come tumbling over the hill.**

Will Check D_Man .

[Marlowe]

"I am not one of Otorin's finest liars, but I'm a regional junior contender."

[D_Man_7733]

HOW IS THIS HAPPENING! WE HAVEN'T EVEN STARTED YET!

Will: (1d20+4)[13]

"What do you all think of my nifty hat? No hummingbird will get this one!"

[Malak'ai]

**You start singing in about the hills and trees, going on about your territory and the Rivers Daughter, you know something isn't quite right, but you can't seem to quite figure out what.**

[D_Man_7733]

Detect Magic?

"I LIKE TREES, I LIKE MOUNTAINS, I LIKE ANIMALS WHO LIVE WITH ME- BUTNOTHUMMINGBIRDSBECAUSE THEY EAT HATS!"

[Malak'ai]

Detect Magic reveals that nothing around you is real, though you still have an overwhelming urge to call yourself Ol' Tom.

[D_Man_7733]

"My hat... is not real..." and with that I sit down and begin to cry, never to be heard from again.

Now they tell tales of Ol'Tom who wanders the forest stealing hats from unsuspecting travelers.

[Malak'ai]

You... You... You turned Tom Bombadil into a wandering bandit!!! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO OOO "bursts out crying".

[D_Man_7733]

Not a bandit exactly, more like a, troublesome spirit .

[Malak'ai]

"keeps sniffling" Poor Tom, Poor poor Tom...

(For some reason it keeps splitting the coding after the 3rd face so you get 3 faces, the coding for the forth, then another face.)

[Arranis Thelmos]

I think I will take Orange.

"I use my illusion magic to make myself appear as Old Man Willow."

[Malak'ai]

**You gain the swallow whole ability against Halflings**

[ExtravagantEvil]

Also, I shall speak in Purple, being a noble color of royalty.

[Arranis Thelmos]

I create a trail of tasty goodies for halflings to follow. Do I catch any? If so, imma go swallow them whole.

[Malak'ai]

Ok, back on track again.
As soon as Machuchang and Wordplay pick their colours I shall post the IC thread, this will be accompanied by PM's to each of you with a link to a personalized copy of the map making not of places you've mentioned in your backgrounds. I will warn you all right now, I have the artistic ability of a blind, thumbless Parkensons sufferer (no offense meant to anyone who actually suffers from that horrible affliction, my simpathies and best wishes go out to you) when I try and draw normally with pencil and paper, doing it on a computer in MS paint is even more of a challange.

EDIT: @Arranis: **Unfortunately, you have not yet had a Halfling curl up and go to sleep between your roots as yet, and you also notice that there are heaps of hummingbirds now devouring all the cakes, scones, muffins, and sweet slices you have left out on the trail**

[Wordplay]

OK, I think that I'll try Dark Slate Grey for Raif Clearsight

Incidentally, how much experience would we get for Tom Bombadill? Bet there'd be loads of treasure, older guy with a young wife, probably loaded.

[Malak'ai]

OK, I think that I'll try Dark Slate Grey for Raif Clearsight

Incidentally, how much experience would we get for Tom Bombadill? Bet there'd be loads of treasure, older guy with a young wife, probably loaded.

Ummm... If you were to try and take on Ol' Tom, you'd get your butts kicked from here to Sunday, 500 years from now.
Converting his stats from ICE's MERP: Lords of Middle Earth vol. 1, he'd be a (approx) lvl 527 Cleric with Travel and Nature domains, his natural stat line would read like this : STR 18 DEX 24 CON 22 INT 21 WIS 24 CHA 19 (MERP and RoleMaster didn't really have a convention for naturally upping your stats very easily. The rules they did have for it were annoying and were capped at a certain number). That's not including all the SLA's, Su's and Sq's he'd have.
Oh, and he'd be considered an Enormous creature for everything BUT AC...

[D_Man_7733]

I can't wait for this to begin.

*Suddenly Tom Bombadil come running through the forest and exploding all the hummingbirds shouting things like "HAT KILLERS!", before going back to being a hat-stealing spirit of the forest*

EDIT: I apologise If I am ruining your fantasies and/or childhood memories. (I have done so before)

[Arranis Thelmos]

Egad! Leave the hummingbirds out of this!

"Ring dol merry dol ring do dillo! I'm gonna get you Tom Bombadillo!"

I'm going to leave a trail of hats to try and lure Tom to my gaping tree maw.

[D_Man_7733]

"oooooh HATS!" Tom begins picking up hat after hat and climbs trees as he picks them up and puts them in the foliage. "No, hummingbird will get you, my fine hatty friends"

[Arranis Thelmos]

I'm going to try to grapple Tom while he is up in the trees. I'll be doing this while I am a tree so...

Grapple (1d20+50)[54]. I get a +50 modifier because as far as you know I'm a giant tree. Make a will save vs 19 to disbelieve I'm a tree.

Edit: in the words of Elan, "I ROLLED A FOUR!"

[D_Man_7733]

Will save (1d20+4)[24]

"You are not a tree, you are an evil spy sent by the hummingbird court to steal hats from the good, hat wearing trees of the forest!"

[Arranis Thelmos]

Okay, you see a silly Gnome with a large hat shooting a scorching ray at you.

Attack (1d20+5)[13]
Damage (4d6)[10]

Okay... He missed and hit a hummingbird.

[D_Man_7733]

"OUCH! that hot, now give me back the HAT"

He comes running at you for a grapple (1d20+3)[15]

[Marlowe]

"Balderdash! Haberdash!
An end to this manuevering!
Gord'an knot! Remus-tod!
It's time we were all moving!
Whether there or wither here,
We now go start deceiving.
I have glaive, and I'll have words
So now begin the reaving!"

[Arranis Thelmos]

Reflex (1d20+3)[20]

And I fire another another scorching ray,

(1d20+4)[15] vs AC

For (4d6)[9] damage

And he points to his large black hat and yells back

"Lookit my eyes when yer talking' tah meh yeh silly human!" when you notice he has a pair of large white eyes painted on the hat.

[Malak'ai]

The things you guys get up to when I turn my back.... **turns you all back to normal, with no humming birds within miles**

[D_Man_7733]

Soooooo... do we call that character building? Or insanity?

How much XP for the hummingbirds?

[Arranis Thelmos]

It was a good team building experience. We learned not to fight each other and that I roll rather poorly.

Edit: "I ROLLED A FOUR!"