Pokethulhu!!!

[Elrosth]

"Oh, this sounds like exactly what I wanted to do today," Hazi says with a smile.

[Maerok]

Howard is able to sneak a look into the room; it is a square little room lined with inscriptions and unspeakable runes. A sign by the wall inside the room says "Safety Room", but the most noticeable feature is that a giant hole has been torn into the wall opposite him. It's vaguely person-shaped but seven feet high and almost five feet across.

He almost fails to notice the Pentacruel slowly crawling along the ceiling toward him. And another slowly slides into the room from the hole in the wall.

[Fri]

"... holy heck.. what happened here!?" He silently screams (never mind the oxymoron).

But then he noticed the pentacruels.

He tries to close the door as fast as he can, then he runs into his group, trying to find safety in numbers.

"Hole. (pant). Creepy (pant). Human Shaped (wheeze). SO cool, you guys have to see it (pant). Oh, and two scary-creeping-tentacly-thingies...Or at least two..." he says, trying to keep his voice low.

"I say we investigate the hole. Screw the tour. Though there's the tentacly thingies problem..."

[Elrosth]

With a quick glance around the room, Hazi shushes Howard, and hurriedly ushers everyone back towards the room he came from before anyone notices. Her hand slowly slips towards the dodecahedron in her belt pouch, unsure of what to expect.

[Maerok]

Something grabbed Simon's arm through the door and he let out scream. The kid wrenched his arm free, saw the strange tentacle and screamed again. In a flash, he slide-tackled Mary and took off down the hall like a madman. She toppled over, taking your chaperon with her. They struggled to get back up and took off after him. "Little boy! Get back here! We'll get to that part of the lab later!!!"

[Kuma Da]

Parish White

"We'll just stay here, then!" Parish calls after the retreating adults. Once they're safely out of earshot, he turns back to the rest of the group. "Anyone wanna try and catch one of those squiggly dealies from behind the door?"

[Arayl]

"Sure, sounds like fun, and we get to see some cool things Terrance says in reply to Parish's question.

[Fri]

Howard

Howard sees simon goes away with a slightly sad and reminiscing look at his face.

"Poor guy, had no dream at all. I say, what are one or two tentacles compared to scenes beyond man's ability to visualize and colors out of places and experiences more daunting than any brain can smell and sounds more appetizing than any chocolate pudding-cake and friendship beyond death and infinity and everything in between and..."

He snaps out of his mumbling and started to write on his notebook. "What I said was, poor kid. I almost feel sorry for him.

Now do we act like the little ladies and gentlemen we are and ask the tentacly horror for a duel or do we unleash the power of our barbaric, cheating youth and pummel them with our number? "

[Kuma Da]

Parish White

"Gyeeah!" yells Parish, rushing forward to unleash the power of his barbaric, cheating youth.

[Elrosth]

"What he said," Hazi grins, happily following and removing one of her dodecahedrons from her belt pouch.

[Maerok]

The room is much the same as before, the runes on the wall are a little more faded though. And now there are three five-armed spawns of the most nightmarishly indescribable levels of primordial existence to have scuttled the deepest depths of the ocean blue or the infinite horrors of the stars beyond, neither of which have been witnessed by none but the most damned men of history...

One of the critters has just climbed through the rather large hole in the wall, and water slowly drips off it onto the floor but doesn't seem to keep it from sliding across the wall on the right. The next one is still on the middle of the ceiling, menacingly closer this time such that waves of menace crawl down your spine. The creature to have snagged the other kid hangs from just such a point on the ceiling to have barely brushed him.

[Fri]

Howard

"This club hasn't disappoint me yet... " Howard smiles as he reaches his shirt pocket.

<ooc:so... dnd speaking, do we roll initiative or what?>

[Maerok]

(Umm: d12 + speed for cthulhu; get 'em out first unless you're going to box them)

[Fri]

<ooc:ah! here goes>
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By ancient darkness and non euclidean noodles, I choose you Möbeot!

(d12+11)[21]

[Kuma Da]

Parish White

Fumbling in his backpack, Parish withdraws a dodecahedron. It glints dramatically in the light.

"From the darkest, cyclopeanist, most penguin-fringed abyss I call you! Tindalonine, heed my summons!"

When Sy’Thurydos pops out instead, he's a little bit miffed.

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(1d12)[12]+1

[Maerok]

Two of the slimy fiends prepare to lunge for the thulhu!

Howard Pentacruel: (1d12+7)[8]
Parish Pentacruel: (1d12+7)[17]

[Maerok]

Combat: Moebot vs. Pentracruel
Howard's Moebot goes first!

Combat: Sy’Thurydos vs. Pentracruel
The five-armed creature of madness lunges for Sy's head, attempting to trap it. But the creatures slaps onto the floor like a mass of wet noodles.

[Kuma Da]

Parish White

Parish glares at the Sy'Thurydos. It blinks fishy mischief back at him. "I wasn't summoning you. Get back in there." The Sy'Thurydos waggles its body.

"Syyyyyyy...."

"You don't really have a choice, here. I'm the cultist. You're the dread beastie that I summon. Now come ba--oh, for the love of the mythos!"

The pentacruel that had been advancing on Parish is now flopping messily on the floor and, seeing a tempting target, Sy'Thurydos has lunged at it, lamprey mouth agape.

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(1d12)[9]vs. lore 9 and power 11 for a soul-shredding blast

[Fri]

A thin strip of hyperdimensional horror floats in the air like a gravity challenged band-aid. It silently stares at both its trainer and the floating thulhu with its only eye-thing.

"Mobeot, slip through! Time Displace..."

The creature seems to float between time and space. It moves almost before Howard finishes his command.

"...ment..."

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Speed attack! (this is speed attack, right?)

(1d12)[7] (1d12)[8] (1d12)[2] against 11 speed and 7 lore

"Anyway, what's the chance that we all have our own thulhu and we're in the same group, eh?"

[Kuma Da]

Parish White

"Yeah, small world isn't i--Sy! Stop shredding its soul this instant!"

[Elrosth]

"Pentacruel! Show them how it's done!" Hazi yells, summoning her own Pentacruel to the fray.

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[roll]1d12+7[/roll]
Any idea why my roll isn't working?

"That is pretty cool," she mentions after a moment, thoroughly enjoying this fieldtrip.

[Kuma Da]

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put the +7 outside the roll brackets. I've never been able to get the forum roller to combine the modifier with the roll.

[Maerok]

COMBAT!

Parish White
Sy'Thurydos shreds soul indeed! It's super effective enough to knock the five-fingered fiend stone cold(er).

Howard Poe
Mobeot displaces fast enough that it never really seems to displace at all. The creepy crawly advances for a moment but one half ends up ten seconds in the past and another ends up ten seconds in the future. For all intents and purposes, all twenty seconds of the pentacruel's shattered existence are numbered.

Retcon:
Howard suddenly remembers half of a tentacled creature landing on his shoes before he left the room to tell the others. He could swear it happened like ten seconds ago.

Hazi Heartkraft
Too slow pentacruel is too slow! The wild one tries to initiate a grapple. It latches on such that a ten-spoked wheel goes careening around the room.

(Next 'turn' spent dodging...) Your pentacruel (you think, it's hard to tell since neither has the tell-tale goatee) frees itself, but the attacker rebounds quickly. It begins to squeeze, dealing 7 damage (need to Dodge or it will faint with 0 HP).

[Kuma Da]

Parish White

"Okay, fine. You win, Sy. You proved you're ever so much stronger than the pentacruel and I'm very proud of you. Now get back in the dodecahedron," He says the last part flatly, glaring at his Sy'Thurydos. It answers with a wormy wriggle, and starts to slither penitently back to him.

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Can I capture the knocked out thulhu, and if yes do I need to roll any checks for that? I couldn't seem to find the information in the book.

[Maerok]

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Sure. Let's say everyone has some totally arbitrary number of dodecahedron, oh, like six. Totally random.

As for catching, it's a Rather Easy (4 dice) against your Lore to catch an unimproved wild thulhu. Less dice for stronger wild thulhu ("wait, what?" )

[Elrosth]

"C'mon, Pentacruel! That is not how I taught you to do that! Get out of there and kick his ass!" Hazi yells and flails her arms, performing what must be the tentacle equivalent of the one-two punch.

(1d12)[11]
Against 7.

(I see, its cause I edited the post. Other one below.)

[Elrosth]

(1d12)[7]
(1d12)[8]
Also against 7.

Edit: Ignore that last one, I only have two dice for my dodge.

[Kuma Da]

Parish White...

...holds a spare dodecahedron up high as he advances on the pulsating, prone form of the pentacruel.

'By the nightmarish folds of winter, I bind you. By the howling dark and the teeth of the wind and the nightmarish whispers of dead stars, I command you to serve me. By the ephemeral beings that bring the frost in the moonless autumn and...and by Mrs. Grisham's math class, you shall know me as your master! Dodecahedron, go!"

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(1d12)[8],(1d12)[9],(1d12)[3],(1d12)[11] vs. lore of 9 to catch the pentacruel.

[Fri]

<ooc>What do the other two pentacruel do? I guess they're just sort of hanging around?<ooc>

[Maerok]

(There were three pentacruels; now they are all being caught (1) or in combat (2).)

Parish
Lightning from the crystal strikes the thulhu and it disappears inside.

Hazi
Pentacruel recovers but takes one on the 'chin' (4 damage) from a flailing fist of fury. Apparently the wild one thought you were coaching it.

Howard
A set of tentacles land on your head about ten seconds after Mobeot's displacement. They slither to the other half of the thulhu and rejoin into one unconscious mass.