Pokethulhu!!!

[Fri]

Howard

"Okay! Stop blasting everything, everyone! I think we already nailed, whatever it was. The laser spam stopped!"

[Maerok]

(resuming after the holidays)

[Maerok]

(Holidays mostly averted! Game on?)

[Kuma Da]

Parish White

"Well, there's supposed to be a thulhu in each room. Unless you can jam that doll in the nodecahedron, then whatever attacked us is still around here somewhere."

[Fri]

Howard

Howard raises his head. After he's sure that there are no other laser spamming demon doll in the room.

"You sure? I thought it's only a typical possessed demon doll from hell or a cute killer robot gone wrong?"

Howard examines the doll on Hazi's hand.

"Overall, not so bad. We got two mysterious artifact in one small room. A battery operated demonic doll from hell and a... water sprouting talisman? What do you think this all about, guys?"

He looks around the room, trying to find something that can explain anything from the rubbles.

[Kuma Da]

Parish White

"They look like they all belonged to a kid. Maybe there's a girl ghost around here somewhere?"

[Maerok]

The remains of the crate are marked with some kind of strange word of arcane might: "fragile." Whatever that means.

[Kuma Da]

Parish White

Parish kicks one and steps back quickly, half expecting it to explode.

[Elrosth]

Hazi Heartkraft

"I'm pretty sure the crate itself is harmless..." Hazi mentions, looking up from the evil doll, though she doesn't look entirely sure.

[Maerok]

The mad scientist doll just stares back at Hazi...

But then, Hazi, suddenly you feel the mad scientist's mind ray compelling you to attack the others.

[Fri]

Howard

"Hmm... by the power of water sprout I compell thee...?"

says Howard, waving his newfound talisman everywhere, but especially toward the doll.

"That, or this talisman will save us when there are fire or when we're lost in the desert. Now lets find either a desert or a burning building"

[Elrosth]

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Do I get a saving throw? Or was that already taken care of?

Hazi Heartkraft
There is a slight shift in Hazi's expression, exactly what you can't place. There is apparently not much difference between disinterested contempt for the world and run-of-the-mill mind control.

"Icthypus?" Hazi asks, vaguely smiling. "Why don't you go play with Parish."

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Sucker Punch, 3d, sticky
(1d12)[7]
(1d12)[3]
(1d12)[10]

[Maerok]

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Not this time around. You made one a while ago for it.

Thulhu go first, IIRC.

[Fri]

Howard

"Why we can't just find a burning building in peace *whimper*"

[Kuma Da]

Parish White

"Oh, for the love of all that is squamous! Pentacrular body-shield, go!"

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Summoning a wall of unconscious thulhu in between the offending icthypus and I.

[Fri]

Howard

Between the confusion and rampaging ichtypus and wall of semi-dead thulhu, Howard raises the newfound amulet and points it toward hazi.

"By the power of unholy super soaker BEGONE!"

"And by that" he whispers to the cold and seemingly uninterested amulet, "I ask you to start spraying"

[Maerok]

The sucker punch very narrowly catches a fleshy wall of pentacruel and finishes off the unconscious creature once and for all. Parish is also knocked back rather unceremoniously, leaving him toppling backward next to the smoked glass jar which was sitting rather peacefully.

A trickle of water drips from the pendant in response to Howard's call. Even a squirting flower would have laughed at it.

[Kuma Da]

Parish White

"Alright. Sy'Thurydos, go! Counterattack through the remains of the valiant meat-shield!"

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Invoking Sy and activating Belch of Reeking Decay to scare the icthypus and Hazi into inactivity. Whereupon Sy will sit on them. Lore 9, power 11, 3 dice. Let's go. (1d12)[5],(1d12)[1],(1d12)[1],

[Maerok]

(It's not enough to take down the thulhu.)

[Elrosth]

Hazi Heartkraft

"Again, Icthypus."

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Sucker Punch, 3d, sticky
(1d12)[5]
(1d12)[12]
(1d12)[6]

[Maerok]

(At who, exactly? Parish?)

[Elrosth]

(Yup. Same target. I'll keep going until either he's down or I need to react to something.)

[Fri]

Howard

"Alright. This had gotten long enough. We have a whole facility to trash and a bunch of super powerful thulhu to catch, and you guys fight each other.And you disappoint me, important-looking-talisman." Howard gives his most you-must-feel-sorry-now look at the talisman.

Howard draws his dodecahedron.

"Ulthar, your turn."

For the first time at the facility, Howard summons a thulhu other than mobeot. An indescribable, luminescent, non euclidean, and strangely kinda cute looking thulhu floats in the air.

The eternally amused looking moon-thulhu drifts in the air lazily and looks toward its cultist as Howard covers his ears with his hands.

"Warped-Doppler Screech. At the girl"

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Frighten (1d12)[5] (1d12)[11] (1d12)[12] against 7

[Maerok]

Parish gets socked in the gut as he lays on the floor. The Warped-Doppler Screech is almost enough to knock down Hazi but instead it results in a rather large headache for everyone in the small room.

The doll begins to laugh and its head spins around. The cord looks like it has pulled inside it with only the ring sticking out. "The cow says moo! The duck says quack! The Yorgathoraiskanishort says - says- says - The pig goes..."

The effects of the mind ray fade away from Hazi's mind.

A rumbling noise begins to shake the room as the facility once again fades into a momentary black-out.

[Elrosth]

Hazi Heartkraft

Hazi looks around, disoriented. After a moment of gathering herself, she begins to stand. "Alright, I promise a lot of apologies will follow this, but first I'd like to come clean and say I didn't entirely dislike that," she says with a self-conscious grin.

[Kuma Da]

Parish White

"If some of those apologies don't involve large donations of money and/or worshiping me as a god, you're gonna be looking down the wrong end of a soul shred," Parish groans, curled around his stomach.

[Maerok]

KABOOM. The water pendant suddenly detonates like a balloon containing exactly one room's worth of water. You are all blasted out of the small room with violent, soggy force.

But it's okay, because the water drains out into a hole in the floor. One that wasn't there before. And there's a matching hole in the ceiling. Through the floor hole it looks like there's a light from below.

Looking back into the room, it's totally empty now. And the damage from the gratuitous usage of soul shredding and other unholy powers is gone. Even the shards of the crate and the smoked glass jar. (I assume someone has held onto the other two items.)

[Fri]

Howard

"Okay okay. Cut the flirting a bit. I'm still trying to stop my head from ringing here. Head... hurt like hell. Clothing wet. Sheesh, that's why I dont use you too muich, Ulthar.

And there is a new hole... Don't you think this place kinda like... have it's own... mind or something? It's like if it.. dunno... nevermind.

If there is a hole it's mankind's job to peek on it."

And thus, howard do what he do best. Looking through small holes.

[Elrosth]

Hazi Heartkraft

"I'm game to explore holes of any size, so..." Hazi approaches the hole.

[Maerok]

You can hear music coming up from below. At first it is too difficult to understand but after a few minutes it has already irrevocably ruptured the sanity of your eardrums such that it becomes hazily clear that it is music.