Are the bolts like regular lightning? Are they landing on high points?
Regular lightning? Questionable. Acting like it, ie seeking out metal and high things? Yes.
"Aye, but let us go one better"
Set the tent up on top of the cart, and use one of the metal poles as a grounding rod for the tent. Use the other tent for the summons. Ground that too.
Strength: 15
Dex: 14
Mind: 10
HP: 1
Element: Sword
Collapsable Pole
Unlit Torch
Nothing
Guitar
Unreasonable Acid
bag of spices
flint and steel
a large iron cooking pot
an iron pan
A pre-wizard book of recipes
Barrel of High quality Thunderbee Mead
0 silver, 50 copper
Soldier's Weapon (really big sword)
Rifle (d8, 4 shots)
Clip of ammo (6 shots)
Standard Armor
jar of flame syrup
octagonal "compass"
No quirk.
Puncture scars on left palm and left thigh.
29 days of food for six people. (174 meals)
jack
spare wheel
two metal tents
three torches
two metal rods
harness for spider
"The tent! set up the tent! The metal will redirect lightning into the ground!"
TENT
Name: Marcus
Backstory: Marcus gonna punch a bitch. Marcus gonna judo slam a bitch to the floor! Marcus gonna make earth swallow the idiot who thought he could get one over on Marcus! Marcus needs to do this for daughter. Marcus needs to earn money so daughter can BE SUCCESSFUL. Marcus doesn't know what little girl wants to do but SHE WILL BE THE BEST AT IT. Marcus lost wife in tragic wizard firestorm. Marcus also lost most of his skin. Marcus was left on the street with an adorable child! MARCUS WILL PROVIDE.
Strength: 13 (13)
Dexterity: 13
Mind: 10
Health: 5 (5)
Wizard Level: 0
Affinity: Earth/Metal. Basically an avatar Earthbender.
Money: 0
Inventory:
Shield: Has 20 HP and can be used to absorb damage instead of taking it yourself. Once HP is expended,
the shield breaks. HP cannot be replenished. ~ 25 silver [20/20]
Soldier's weapon (bolt action rifle, sword, halberd, lance, mace, etc) ~10 silver, d8 damage: Axe
Soldier's weapon (bolt action rifle, sword, halberd, lance, mace, etc) ~10 silver, d8 damage: Rifle [6/6]
Rifle clips (6 rounds each), x1
Heavy Armor (Can't move AND attack in the same turn.)
Flame syrup ~10 silver. Glass jar filled with faintly glowing yellow-orange viscous fluid. Fluid ignites when
exposed to air and burns for 5 rounds. If thrown, sets 15ft diameter area alight and deals 1d6 damage to
anything in it each round. x1
Caltrops (D4 damage against unarmored feet)
Hourglass in a metal frame.
Bag of Metal Acorns.
Quirks:
Full body burn scars
Ax wound scar on left ribs
Name: Alanna
Daughter of Marcus, she is sixteen years of age and desires to do something with her life. This mostly involves putting up with her father and making sure he doesn't go off too half cocked on some crazy adventure, usually by being smarter than him. Unfortunetly, she is also a bit weak and has the grace of a house being very suddenly introduced to a boulder at 50 mph.
HP 4 (4)
Strength 8 (8 )
Dexterity 5
Mind 12
Wizard Level: 0
Money: 0
Standard armor (armor 1) ~ 30 silver.
Soldier's weapon (bolt action rifle, sword, halberd, lance, mace, etc) ~10 silver, d8 damage: Sword
Soldier's weapon (bolt action rifle, sword, halberd, lance, mace, etc) ~10 silver, d8 damage: Rifle 5/6 ammo
Rifle clips (6 rounds each), x1
Backpack:
Recipie book (?)
10 Abstract Food Units. (1 = a meal)
Spice bag (Useful for food items.)
Flint and steel, crowbar, saw, hammer, 20ft rope, spy glass, shovel, collapsible pole, grappling hook, glue, magnifying glass, lock picks.
First Aid Kit~ 10 silver. A box of clean bandages, needle and thread for stitches, casts and other general
purpose medical supplies. Used to tend for someone with critical damage. Single use. x3
Beethro, Alanna and Marcus scramble up and run to the cart, throwing aside crates of provisions until they find the sheet metal and poles to make the iron tents. Beethro grabs the main pole of the tent and begins setting it up as Alanna and Marcus search for the fasteners to keep the sheets affixed to the pole. The tent is pyramid shaped, a single metal pole in the middle with triangular sheets of metal supported from it. When assembled right and pulled together, the sheets form a solid metal barrier to the outside world. Beethro plants the main rod straight into the cart, punching through wood down to the ground below it. The instant the rod touches the ground, a bolt of lightning lashes down and strikes the rod and Beethro, who is still holding onto it. [d20 damage=2. HP 0, 14 str. roll to remain up, passed]. Alanna and Marcus are blown straight out of the cart by the concussive force of the strike, and when they get back up and look to see whats left of Beethro, they find him standing in exactly the same place as before, smoldering slightly, with lichtenburg figures burnt into his arms from his hands to his shoulders. He pulls his hands away from the pole and flexes his fingers with a look of extreme concentration on his face.
"Hurry up with those sheets please."
Alanna and Marcus look at each other for a moment before jumping back in the cart and finishing the tent, affixing the 4 metal sheets and immediately cowering under them. Beethro sits down slowly suppresses a twitch. Bill, who says not a word to anyone, quickly assembles the metal ramada he bought for his summons and has them huddle beneath it. He joins them, rather than staying with the rest of the party under the tent.
Make sure that syv doesn't try to hide back in the forest like an idiot.
Backstory: One of his old friends from before the war just got killed by a psychic alien thing. Then he ended up here? Doesn't really make sense. Very little in life does.
HP: 2
Strength: 11
Dexterity: 17
Mind: 10
Wizard Level: 0
Affinity: Shotgun
Inventory:
Inventory:
Double barrel shotgun (d8) (2/8)
Big revolver (d10) (6/6)
Crowbar
Medkit
Music Box + 2 music discs
10 copper
Puncture scar in abdomen
HIDE! I don't care that we're in a barren wasteland, I'm finding a damn hiding spot! Make sure the team is between me and the forest, and that I'm not too far from them--but also not too close!
Name:syv
Backstory: Hopefully they're lightning rods for lightning, and not just danger... probably; lightning must be dangerous, or it wouldn't be so loud.
HP: 6/6
STR: 15/14 (...Soup? Perhaps the mere memory still empowers me?)
DEX: 8/8
INT: 14/14
Wizard Level: 0
Affinity: FLESH
Inventory:
Bolt-action Rifle (d8 ranged weapon) [6/6]
Tire Iron (d6 melee weapon)
Flimsy Armor (Armor 1) (Roll 1d10 every time the armor blocks some damage. On a roll of 1, armor breaks.)
Cobbled together pistol (d6 ranged weapon) [6/6]
12 bullets
1 silver coin, 30 copper coins
Gordon gets up and immediately starts looking for his skittish stalker/friend. It doesn't take long to find him. Sy comes running from behind one of the nearby dunes, screaming and scampering in random directions with his hands over his ears. It is clear that whatever kind of mind Sy has, it is severely overloaded from exposure to all this fearful danger. He goes from one place to another, attempting to hide beneath dunes that do not shield him from the sky, dropping down into the fetal position before springing back up and running some more. Gordon runs towards him, yelling over the sound of constant thunder.
"GET OVER HERE! I KNOW YOU'RE AFRAID OF PEOPLE, BUT IF YOU JUST KEEP RUNNING AROUND YOU'RE GOING TO G-"
As he says this, Gordon himself is struck. [d20=13 damage. 0 HP, 0 STR]
Gordon's body detonates, blowing apart from the inside in a burst of gore and purple light as though he had been stuffed with lavender dynamite. Standing where he used to be, in his exact pose, is what appears to be a human nervous system. It's a brain and thick spinal cord, from which emanate thin, delicate looking nerves that form a human shape. It's almost as though the entirety of his body has been rendered completely transparent, leaving only the nerves visible; they still follow the unseen contours of the body, though no part remains to hold them in place. The nerves are bright purple and glowing fiercely, with electricity crackling between them like a Jacob's ladder. The brain is glowing even brighter and releasing constant arcs of electricity like a tesla coil, forming a sort of constantly shifting headdress of lighting. After a moment the nervous system straightens up and looks around, the brain scanning the horizon in a slow and deliberate fashion. It starts walking, heading off into the Marble wastes.
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