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Author Topic: Roll to fight an overly long boss  (Read 43882 times)

ShadowDragon

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Roll to fight an overly long boss
« on: November 04, 2015, 05:02:03 am »

You are adventurers or something along those lines. You are fighting the first stage of an overly long boss, which appears to be a skilled warrior. What do you do?

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This is minimalist, allowing you to do almost anything.
You can respawn without spending your action for the turn. When you do, you are a human (or something of practically equal power) who can somehow survive the current state of the battlefield.
You get one action per turn by default.
Rolls work as described in this spoiler.
Spoiler (click to show/hide)
The boss's True Form is behind the Ablative Invincibility Aegis, which cannot be pierced or bypassed by any means other than fighting through its layers.
Each layer of the Ablative Invincibility Aegis has one stage guarding it, as well as becoming a stage based off of how you killed its guard.
You cannot harm a layer before killing its guard.
The True Form gains abilities based off of how you kill each previous stage, in addition to the abilities it starts with.
Layers of the Ablative Invincibility Aegis cannot be restored by any means.
Generally, boss stages are far harder to kill than you and are immune to anything that would defeat them in one turn.
You can't remove a stage's abilities.
The game will end upon the death of the True Form.

Battlefield state
A large plain.

Ablative Invincibility Aegis layers: 5/5
Spoiler: True Form (click to show/hide)
Spoiler: Current Stage(s) (click to show/hide)
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Coolrune206

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Re: Roll to fight an overly long boss
« Reply #1 on: November 04, 2015, 06:16:33 am »

Shoot the thing with my crossbow!

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Re: Roll to fight an overly long boss
« Reply #2 on: November 04, 2015, 06:45:46 am »

Fireball.  Duh.
Then maybe some more fireballs.
Oh,and some more fireballs for good measure.
Can't forget the fireballs.
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Re: Roll to fight an overly long boss
« Reply #3 on: November 04, 2015, 11:41:32 am »

Use my classic sawed off shotgun to blast the fool!
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Re: Roll to fight an overly long boss
« Reply #4 on: November 04, 2015, 11:44:38 am »

Prepping up: Ensure my next roll is 5.
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Re: Roll to fight an overly long boss
« Reply #5 on: November 04, 2015, 12:59:13 pm »

Be mole person.

Call in mole people ground strike.
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Re: Roll to fight an overly long boss
« Reply #6 on: November 04, 2015, 09:10:02 pm »

Tell it I won't try to kill it if it gives me cool stuff or awesome powers.
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Re: Roll to fight an overly long boss
« Reply #7 on: November 04, 2015, 09:35:14 pm »

cast dark ensnarement on the boss! tangling him up in strong "threads" of dark energy.
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Re: Roll to fight an overly long boss - Turn 1
« Reply #8 on: November 04, 2015, 11:41:57 pm »

Shoot the thing with my crossbow!

[joke]+6 Points.[/joke]
[1] You fire your crossbow backwards. Fortunately, you don't hit any immediately important organs.
[5] You are beheaded by the counterattack. Respawn?
Fireball.  Duh.
Then maybe some more fireballs.
Oh,and some more fireballs for good measure.
Can't forget the fireballs.

[1] You set yourself on fire.
[1+2] You get stabbed through the kidney.
Use my classic sawed off shotgun to blast the fool!
[6] You fire your shotgun after loading it with a round labeled "C-H". It is vaporized along with your arms and creates a large swath of fresh radioactive wasteland. The Warrior Avatar looks somewhat nauseated and burned, but otherwise unharmed.
[6] You are hit with the flat of a sword hard enough to leave a crater. And you do leave a crater. Respawn?
Prepping up: Ensure my next roll is 5.
[5] Done.
Be mole person.

Call in mole people ground strike.

[2] They don't seem to know where you are.
Tell it I won't try to kill it if it gives me cool stuff or awesome powers.
I will not grant you power for not fighting me.
"I'm too busy fighting the other players to give you any gear, but the "True Form" will probably give you something if you offer an alliance."
cast dark ensnarement on the boss! tangling him up in strong "threads" of dark energy.
[6] You manage to cover the battlefield in entangling tendrils of darkness.
[6] The Warrior Avatar rips through a large section of the tendrils by attacking you with a sword from halfway across the battlefield. The blow bisects you. Respawn?

Quote from: True Form
Start dissolving the tendrils.
[4] You clear about half of the battlefield.
Quote from: Warrior Avatar
Finish TheBiggerFish off.
[3] You stab their other kidney.

Battlefield state
A large plain with a swath of radioactive wasteland and a crater. About half of it is covered in tendrils of darkness.

Ablative Invinciblity Aegis layers: 5/5
Spoiler: True Form (click to show/hide)
Spoiler: Current Stage(s) (click to show/hide)
Spoiler: Player States (click to show/hide)
Edit: Notes didn't say that TheBiggerFish is on fire. This has been corrected.
« Last Edit: November 05, 2015, 12:14:47 am by ShadowDragon »
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Re: Roll to fight an overly long boss
« Reply #9 on: November 05, 2015, 12:43:15 am »

Encase self in impenetrable armor.
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Re: Roll to fight an overly long boss
« Reply #10 on: November 05, 2015, 01:05:38 am »

Ensure my next three rolls are 5. Summon my enhanced Mark Seven Myrmidon Supercommando power armor.

It provides enchanced strength, superiour protection, shoulder mounted cannon, extensive series of sensors, jetback and array of summonable weapons.
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Re: Roll to fight an overly long boss
« Reply #11 on: November 05, 2015, 01:10:53 am »

Assail the WARRIOR AVATAR with a barrage of entropic blasts to inflict bad luck upon it.
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Re: Roll to fight an overly long boss
« Reply #12 on: November 05, 2015, 01:55:36 am »

Mole-dance an SOS.
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Re: Roll to fight an overly long boss
« Reply #13 on: November 05, 2015, 06:47:52 am »

MORE FIREBALLS!!!!!!
Fireball is life.
Fireball is love.
Fireball is awesome.
« Last Edit: November 05, 2015, 06:57:15 am by TheBiggerFish »
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Re: Roll to fight an overly long boss
« Reply #14 on: November 05, 2015, 06:55:33 am »

Magically add inward facing spikes to the Ablative Invinciblity Aegis so that it acts as an Iron Maiden.
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