Session 422 - Ghosts'n Goblins - Halloween Tower Defence Special!

Date: 28th October 1625

Zenith Deity: Oberon
Moon Phase: Waxing Crescent
Moon Face: Pocked Face

New Characters:

- Hidra, a mighty Fighter and former road warrior

Returning Characters:

- Nostradama, a Cleric who is now a moaning zombie!!! A dead foe rises as a fellow zombie per round!

- Nieval the Good, a Specialist who has become a haunted doll!! Possess the being that holds you!
- Ghost Snels, a Cleric who is now a spooky scary skeleton!! +4AC, 1 damage from non-Smashy, if hit Xylophone and swap all players' spooky gimmick!

- Likelangelo, a Specialist who has become a fearsome ghoul!! Unarmed claw/claw that stuns!

- Hidra the new Fighter emerges as a cackling witch!! Foresee die rolls, and throw potions!

- Sulphur the Boo-Gilist is fittingly a g-g-g-ghost!! Pick two of seen/heard/felt, and swap if unperceived!

Events:

--- Halloweeeeeen Gimmiiiiiick!

- All the characters, including newly arriving Hidra who is a Knight of Gryphon, have been turned into SPOOKY THINGS! Some table-swapping occurs while I'm distracted!

- At the front entrance to the now-cleared crumbling castle dungeon, the spooky team look out across the horrible Goblin wastes and see a sea of pumpkin-headed goblins swarming towards them!

- Gifflewim emerges and tells them what they have already ascertained - a swarm of pumpkin-headed goblins are going to attempt to swarm the castle! Defend it with your spooky lives! At the end, the player-voted MVP will gain spooky powers forevermore!

--- Defensive Positions

- The goblins are trying to get to the enchanted crystal bed deep in the castle, so it's a good thing that our heroes have a very hands-on knowledge of the traps! They go to various room, ready to ambush and redirect the pumpkin hordes.

- A loud cackle is heard and the pumpkins invade! Several are mown down in the first wave, those that get through enter the pit trap room and fall in! Meanwhile Hidra mans the mounted repeater crossbows behind the arrow slits and starts mowing them down.

- The boss of the wave is a spooky ghostly version of Likelangelo, named Ghostelangelo! In a dramatic twist, Nieval in his Haunted Doll form possesses the boss monster and makes him jump down the spiky pit! Instant defeat!

--- Ghost Goblins

- The next wave is headed by a split between pumpkin-headed goblins and a new threat... goblins with bedsheets over their heads! OOoOOoOoo!

- In a Halloween twist, the ghost goblins actually act like ghosts! They can fly and go through walls! They are still physical beings though, so the fight is bitter and bloody all the same.

- Hidra heads to the helhound room to unleash some chaos.

- The boss of the wave is Nostrademon! Spooky energy flies out and everyone changes spook-type!

- Hidra grapples the boss while Sulphur joins the grapple and stabs in with the wiggly dagger!

- Likelangelo (spook-type Ghost, no relation to the defeated Ghostelangelo) scares the Nostrademon with a powerful BOO! which scares it away! Defeated!

--- Got That Dawg In 'Em

- There is a baying of hounds from the front door! Goblins in dog masks come slavering forth!

- Likealangelo's witch-stolen familiar Gorrible, a horrible vulture-bat-thing, sweeps forward to attack the goblins who are scampering in on all fours and trying to take people down in packs!

- Nieval, currently a Haunted Doll, possesses a goblin at the back and sends it at its fellows.

- Zombie-form Sulphur is busy sending his zombie minions into combat, then supporting them with a flurry of punches.

- The final boss arrives... Gryphon, Fairy-Tale Prince! It's the Gryphon from before his hundred year slumber come to reclaim his castle! He floats charmingly through the air!
- He is surrounded by the souls of the fallen castle servants and they must all be slain to defeat him!

- The team prepare for desperate combat... until Sulphur realises that this time ghost is indeed a time GHOST and thus vulnerable to a Necromancer punch!!

- He leaps forward and punches the prince straight in the jaw, bringing him under Sulphur's control! Boss defeated!

--- Elucidating Questions

- As the ultimate commander of the Halloween-themed invasion force, Temporal Gryphon knows things about his master Morning Light Mountain. They get three questions.

-- What is its greatest weakness? As a plant, it's vulnerable to herbicides.

-- What are its ultimate plans? To absorb or destroy all other life.

-- Why are you obeying it, and could we get them same? It gives eternal life of a sort, and it has vast knowledge.

--- Trick or Treat!

- Finally, treats! Their labours uncover many strange objects.

-- Hidra finds vials of Frost Mask - an icy substance that frightens fire. Flames will not approach the wearer for a full day. 3 doses.

-- Nieval finds a small friendly kitten with glowing yellow eyes.

-- Sulphur finds magic lipstick. Kissing something while wearing it makes a mouth grow where you kissed which can tell you stuff the thing might know. Lasts d4 rounds. Magic is one-use but the lipstick itself is in a fetching sort of muted rose shade that would look pretty good on him. 

-- Likelangelo claims the Helmet of Delayed Speed. Give up an action this round to get two in the next.

-- Ghost Snels finds Oil of Brutal Noise. When applied, the wearer finds all sounds to be incredibly painful, taking 1HP damage per clash or round of sustained noise. Lasts 10 minutes.

- Nostradama finds a huge regenerating chorizo! Encumbers. 1/10 chance of the magic running out per ration used at once (ie. 3 rations in a meal, 3/10 chance)

Totals: 7000 exp

Treasures claimed:

- See above!

Foes Defeated:

- Countless pumpkin-headed goblins (500 exp)

- Many bedsheet-wearing ghost goblins (1000 exp)

- A load of dog-masked hound goblins (1500 exp)

- Ghostelangelo (500 exp)

- Nostrademon (1000 exp)

- Gryphon, Fairytale Prince (1500 exp)

Total: 6000 exp

OOC:

- Issy the Chronicler (100 exp/level)

- George the Expedition Leader (100 exp/level)
- Kitty the Vanguard (100 exp/level)

- Charles the Triage (100 exp/level)

- Carter the Chef (100 exp/level)

Exp Totals:

- Zoë / Nostradama, Level 6 Cleric of Nonanism: 41376 (Level up at 72000)

- Kitty / Sulphur, Level 5 Boo-gilist: 30981 (Level up at 36000)

- Charles / Nieval the Good, Level 4 Specialist: 13158 (Level up at 14000)
*LEVEL UP!* +1d6 HP! +1 to Saves! +2 Skill Points! +Backstory!

- Issy / Likelangelo, Level 4 Specialist: 8747 (Level up at 14000)

- Carter / Hidra, Level 2 Fighter: 3882 (Level up at 4000)
*LEVEL UP!* +1d8 HP! +1 to Saves! +1 to Hit! +1 to Crit/Fumble! +Backstory!

- George / Ghost Snels, Level 2 Denialist Cleric: 3882 (Level up at 4500)

*LEVEL UP!* +1d6 HP! +1 to Saves! +Faith! +Healing Pool! +Backstory!