Igfig: Last time on Eberron!
Igfig: You had hatched a plan to catch Jaela Daran, the Keeper of the Flame, in public so you could inform her of the Lord of Blades' imminent attack
Igfig: by means of bird wildshapes
Igfig: which was fairly successful
Igfig: but unbeknownst to you, Frosty had taken the airship on his own and flown off to intercept Mobile Fortress Chydris and rescue Thakashtai and the other kidnapped quori-in-khyber-dragonshards
Igfig: he caught up, rammed the ship into the fortress' superstructure, and then swallowed the living fireball's core, which he had stolen from Varus
frosty: WHEEEE
Igfig: which is where we now rejoin the story
Igfig: Okay, so
frosty: so
Igfig: suspended in your flame-stuff, the core tries to explode
frosty: well, damn
frosty: i guess until it does i go on to step three
Igfig: but your own internal forces, accustomed to holding together the energies of a shitload of fire, hold it back
frosty: woooo
Igfig: a slow-motion explosion in your midsection
Igfig: it is incredibly painful
Igfig: make a Con check
Igfig: er, save
frosty: 1d20+8
Fortuna: frosty, 1d20+8: [3] = 11
frosty: oof
Igfig: not good
frosty: rip frosty
Igfig: the surface of your body is roiling and convulsing
Igfig: you're still alive, intact even
Igfig: but you don't know for how much longer
Igfig: a few minutes maybe
frosty: well lets go save the shards then!
Igfig: you're going to have to keep making Con saves every so often
Igfig: unless you can find a way to stabilize yourself
Igfig: ...you kinda wish you knew how to do the stuff Varus was doing
frosty: pepto bismal
Igfig: okay, so
Igfig: if you remember what Chydris looks like
Igfig: I'll link it again, actually
frosty: aight
Igfig: http://nevsepic.com.ua/uploads/posts/2011-10/thumbs/1318755435_www.nevsepic.com.ua-argonth.jpg
Igfig: http://img1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20090108212855/eberron/images/e/e6/Argonth.jpg
frosty: so unless i see a sign that says 'shards right here' i go into the front bit
Igfig: you're crashed in amongst the towers in the back section
Igfig: all right
frosty: gotta get the shards then i can die
Igfig: this area is on fire in parts, although a lot of it is made of stone and metal so it doesn't burn too much
frosty: fuck the fire
Igfig: most of the warforged are running around, trying to put out the fires, prevent the buildings from collapsing, rescue those stuck in the rubble
frosty: heh
Igfig: but you can see some trying to navigate the half-collapsed staircase up to where you are
Igfig: you're pretty high up, about 40 feet above the deck
Igfig: the towers are close together though, only about 10 feet apart
Igfig: what are you doing?
frosty: can i jump accross to the other tower and go down those stairs instead
Igfig: You could try, yeah
frosty: whats the standing long jump distance to height ratio
Igfig: Athletics check, but if you want to get a running start you're going to have to use the heavily-sloped deck of the airship
frosty: ten feet tall, 20 pounds
Igfig: let me check, I can never remember the precise numbers
frosty: 1d20+4
Fortuna: frosty, 1d20+4: [14] = 18
Igfig: if you can get a 10-foot running start, you jump up to your Str score in feet. Half that if you don't get the running start
frosty: WHEEE
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Santa: HUZZAH
Santa: SANTA IS IN THE CHIMNEY
BlazeNotAppearingInThisSession: Just as Frosty left the chat you all showed up.
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Igfig: hello fortuna
Fortuna: Good evening.
Guest59343: aw yeah
Santa: fuck u frosty
Igifg: gah
Santa: did we even get to begin properly
Santa: who wants to sing christmas carols
Santa: rudolphh the red nnoseeee reindeeerrrr
BlazeNotAppearingInThisSession: Had a very shiny nose.
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Santa: and if you ever saw iiiittt
Santa: you would even say it glowsssss
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Igfig: THERE we go
frosty: 1d20+8
Fortuna: frosty, 1d20+8: [15] = 23
Igfig: okay, so we had a hiccup there but I think we're all right now
Igfig: Aw yeah, Frosty catches a window easily
frosty: i landed so good
Igfig: hell, with a roll like that you roll right through the window
BlazeNotAppearingInThisSession: Reposting the music now, I think it is as properly tuned as it will get.
BlazeNotAppearingInThisSession: http://labs.echonest.com/Uploader/index.html?trid=TRBBRBA13B0DE4399E&jb=1&thresh=48&bp=25,50,24
Igfig: using your fire form to just burst right on in
frosty: now i go down the unblocked staird
Igfig: all right
Santa: wait what happened
Santa: before i got in
BlazeNotAppearingInThisSession: Oh geeze that last jump was really horrible again.
Igfig: ask in the skype, let Peter get oyu up to speed
BlazeNotAppearingInThisSession: Delete that loop at the very bottom.
frosty2: basically frosty is the best
frosty2: and nothing else
Igfig: halfway down the stairs, you barrel into a warforged soldier guy coming up!
Santa: oh no!
frosty2  shove
Igfig: attack roll
Igfig: or wait
Igfig: shove is an Athletics check actually
frosty2: ok
Santa: igfig is frosty pulsing with flames like growing and shrinking in size
frosty2: 1d20+4
Fortuna: frosty2, 1d20+4: [10] = 14
frosty2: 1d10 fire dmg
Fortuna: frosty2, fire dmg: [8] = 8
Igfig: he makes a check of his own to resist, but you've got the height advantage so I'll give him disad
Igfig: 2#1d20+2
Fortuna: Igfig, 1d20+2: [14] = 16; 1d20+2: [5] = 7
Santa: ben also has pushing 
Santa: bull rush push feat thing
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Igfig: yeah, so when you push him he just goes flying
frossty: kick frosty
frosty was kicked by Igfig.
Santa: ben are you tearing through the skies
Santa: at 600 degrees
frossty: u no it
Igfig: actually, now that I think about it should I really be referring to the warforged as "he"? I mean, gender is kind of a fleshy construct, as it were
Igfig: like a flesh golem
frosty: what does it identify as
Igfig: but seriously, I'd imagine the Lord of Blades not wanting to shackle himself to some kind of binary that doesn't actually exist for warforged
Santa: they can be like toads
Santa: they are inately genderless but some choose to identify as one or the other
BlazeNotAppearingInThisSession: Yar, so would we use that ze thing or refer to them as they?
Santa: they id imagine
Igfig: so I think from now on all the warforged who haven't chosen a gender identity (which is a thing they can do, but they don't have to) will be referred to as "they"
Igfig: aye
BlazeNotAppearingInThisSession: Yar, the ze thing always seemed a little weird considering they works for that already.
frosty: but with so many they could get confusing
Igfig: hm
frosty: it
Igfig: no
BlazeNotAppearingInThisSession: We have context clues, we'll be fine.
Igfig: let's try this and see how it goes
frosty: alright so warforged fly down in burning ball
frosty: and me keep on trucking
Igfig: The warforged goes right over, bouncing down the stairs, you right behind them
Igfig: crashing straight through the doors at the bottom
Igfig: 2d6 more damage on warforged
Fortuna: Igfig, more damage on warforged: [3, 1] = 4
frosty: DONT STOP ME NOW
Igfig: c'mon fortuna
Igfig: boom
Igfig: all right, you're down at deck leve
Santa: KICK THEYS BUTTS FROSTY
frosty: alright i go to the front cause i doubt they keep thakishtai in someone's basement
frosty: to the mainframe
Igfig: There are a few more forged out here, but they're at least a few dozen feet away
frosty: RUN
Igfig: but when they see you emerge, they turn and charge at you
Igfig: aright!
Igfig: You're a lot faster than they are, but some of the ones in front are moving to intercept
Igfig: further forward, I mean
frosty: gonna make supersonic men out of them if they get in my way
Igfig: 1d20+2 Athletics to grapple
Fortuna: Igfig, Athletics to grapple: [4] = 6
frosty: what check is this
Igfig: athletics or acrobatics
Igfig: first one didn't even come close though
Igfig: oh hey, that was nice of the mibbit people
frosty: 1d20+8 suckers
Fortuna: frosty, suckers: [6] = 14
Igfig: indeed
Igfig: two more are diving at you though
Santa: huh
Santa: thats the first time thats happened
Santa: ily Kitsune
Igfig: 2#1d20+2 Athletics to grapple
Fortuna: Igfig, Athletics to grapple: [18] = 20; Athletics to grapple: [6] = 8
frosty: 2#1d20+8
Fortuna: frosty, 1d20+8: [9] = 17; 1d20+8: [20] = 28
Igfig: oh geez
frosty: SUCKERS
Igfig: okay, well
frosty: FUCK YOU ALL
Igfig: so the first one actually managed to grab you
Igfig: but the second one, instead of them grabbing you, you managed a textbook reversal, and you grabbed them instead
Igfig: so you've got one grabbing you, you're grabbing another, and it's your turn
frosty: 2#1d10 gotta burn them they touched me
Fortuna: frosty, gotta burn them they touched me: [2] = 2; gotta burn them they touched me: [7] = 7
Igfig: right, good point
Igfig: You can escape from the grab with Acrobatics, but you've got a range of options if you want to get fancier
Igfig: using your action for the check to escape will slow you down, more of them will have a chance to catch up
frosty: okay can i use the one i grabbed 20x better than he me, and just smash him into the other one
Igfig: yes, yes you can
frosty: smash a bro with a bro
Igfig: that's a Str attack, I think
Igfig: same bonus as with Athletics
frosty: ok
frosty: 1d20+4
Fortuna: frosty, 1d20+4: [9] = 13
Santa: hit this motherfucker with that motherfucker
Igfig: oh actually I guess it'd be an Athletics check first to pick up the one, and /then/ the Str attack to hit the other
Igfig: so that roll there was actually the Athletics check, so I'll roll Athletics to resist
Igfig:  1d20+2 athletics
Fortuna: Igfig, athletics: [9] = 11
Igfig: aright, you pick them right up and... now make that attack roll
Santa: shit boy!
frosty: HOLD THE FUCK UP. calmbro wanted the quori shards for his godforged dealio, why did mindbiters bring them to lord of blazes flying castle
frosty: what is going on 
Igfig: calambro?
Igfig: Oh, calmbro. Chain.
Igfig: Great question
frosty: the garden gnome
frosty: but frosty doent have time for questions, and sure as hell doesnt have time to wait for cagey answers
frosty: 1d20+4
Fortuna: frosty, 1d20+4: [12] = 16
Igfig: Just enough!
frosty: slamming a motherfucker with a motherfucker
Igfig: Okay, this now raises the question of how much it would hurt to be hit with a mofo
Igfig: I'm thinking... 3d6+Str?
frosty: can i carry this mofo and have him be my melee tool
Igfig: if you like, but they'll slow you down
Igfig: and also fight back
frosty: 3d6
Fortuna: frosty, 3d6: [1, 6, 2] = 9
frosty: pff
frosty: and nah
frosty: just leave sorry beating ass beaten
Igfig: plus 1 for your str, and also add your 1d10 fire damage
frosty: 1d10
Fortuna: frosty, 1d10: [8] = 8
frosty: 18
Igfig: well then!
Igfig: And that's to each of them, too
Igfig: They both go flying
frosty: I SAID DONT STOP ME, ASSHOLE
Igfig: both seriously battered (well past bloodied)
Santa: now explode into fire
Santa: set fire 
Santa: to the rain
Igfig: and the others all stop for a moment, suddenly less than eager to advance on you
Santa: watch them burn
Santa: writhe in pain
Igfig: ah yes, speaking of which
Igfig: can I get another Con save
frosty: 1d20+4 intimidate
Fortuna: frosty, intimidate: [13] = 17
frosty: oh right
frosty: 1d20+8
Fortuna: frosty, 1d20+8: [18] = 26
Igfig: not bad, not bad on the intimidate
Igfig: ahh, great
frosty: EAT IT
frosty: SUCK MY FIERY DICK
Igfig: you manage to hold down the explosion for a while longer
Igfig: the Blades are all basically stopped now, worried both by your bodyslam finesse and the fact that you look like you could explode any moment
Igfig: you've got a clear path to the gate
frosty: finally wising up
frosty goes to gate
frosty flips off the hordes
Igfig: all right
Santa: more like the horde of dicks
Santa: ok so i just realized that for that pun to work id have needed to connect it
Igfig: after a few moments, they start to give chase again. But you have too much of a lead on them
Santa: i went horde of blades > horde of dicks
Igfig: yes okay
Igfig: All right, so where in here are you going to look for Thakashtai and the other quori?
frosty: can i get a view of what i see when i entrer? if not the throneroom i guess cause its the only place i know here
Igfig: sure
Igfig: There's a bit of a gatehouse and barbican, but luckily it's all wide open so you don't have to worry about murder holes
Igfig: The area beyond it is like a large pillared hall, with a door to each side, and one of those big staircases that splits halfway up at the far end
frosty: not gonna check guardhouse
frosty: actully unless there is a place that absolutely screams 'super secret shardkeep' on the way, just gonna go to throneroom
Santa: see whats up the horde of dick's elevator
Igfig: above the spot where the staircase splits, you can see what used to be the crest of the nation of Cyre, now covered with a worked-metal image of a bladed gauntlet
frosty: because throneroom=lob=dude who stole the shards=where they are
Igfig: Okay, sure
Igfig: You remember the route pretty well, and it's actually a pretty short way from here. Basically, the staircases go right up through the ceiling, weave back and forth over a couple levels, and end at the landing in front of the bridge/throneroom
Santa: so is this a stolen cyre warship?
Igfig: sort of
Igfig: I mean, it's way bigger than a warship. It's literally a fortress
Igfig: And it's not quite stolen, because well
Igfig: Cyre doesn't exactly exist any more
Igfig: Cyre is the Mournland now
Igfig: Chydris was grounded and overrun, I think by Thrannish forces actually, in a major battle of the Last war
frosty: this ship gonna be the mournland in a couple minutes
Igfig: word
Igfig: anyway, presumably after the Mourning, the Lord of Blades found the fortress and repaired it
Igfig: There's only one mobile fortress offiicially still in service: Argonth, in Breland
Santa: do you think mining in the mournlands would let you find some really neat corrupted ore
BlazeNotAppearingInThisSession: I'm not sure if corrupt is the right word for the mournland.
BlazeNotAppearingInThisSession: Corruption brings up imagery of festering and darkness and spreading.
BlazeNotAppearingInThisSession: The Mournland is more...  nothing.  More sterile.
frosty: enough talk over pissdick's hometown, i got to the throneroom
frosty: gonna school him in his homeroom
Igfig: and by horse I mean not a horse a all
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frosty: what horse
Igfig: Sorry, I got disconnected and didn't notice and kept typing
Igfig: good question 20:44	Igfig	There hasn't been much research into what the Mourning did underground! It's already so dangerous on the surface, going deeper would be madness 20:44	Igfig	until you got to Khyber I guess, which might be even more insane 20:45	Igfig	since Khyber is basically the Abyss 20:45	Igfig	but all underground, and accessible just by walking if
Igfig: you go deep enough 20:45	Igfig	anyway! This is all tangential to what's actually going on 20:47	Igfig	which is Frosty heading for the throne room to see a warforged about a horse 20:47	Igfig	and by horse I mean not a horse a all 20:48	Igfig	aw shit I disconnected
Igfig: Did I miss anything after
Igfig: frosty: gonna school him in his homeroom
frosty: well i did a sick burn and thats all you missed
frosty: nope
Igfig: all right!
Igfig: So you sprint up the stairs
Igfig: for the most part they are surprisingly clear of people
Igfig: evidently people are still trying to figure out what's going on
frosty: pffft
Igfig: until you get to the top. Remember how the Lord of Blades had a bunch of Juggernauts standing guard outside his door?
Igfig: Well, they aren't all there still
frosty: hmm
Igfig: there's just one
frosty: SLAM
Igfig: but he's bigger than the other ones you remember
Igfig: and he's got a wicked huge axe
frosty: idgaf
Santa: like how wicked huge
Igfig: well like two-handed and then some
frosty: i slammed a fucking fortress i dont care if theres some dingus on here
Santa: so like a scottish war sword?
frosty: be like shooting a bear then worrying about its fleas
Igfig: do you remember the Execution Axe from 4e? One of those
Santa: oh shit
frosty: slam motherfucker
Igfig: well okay, thing is
Igfig: he's ready for you
Igfig: so: roll initiative!
frosty: 1d20+5
Fortuna: frosty, 1d20+5: [16] = 21
frosty: bring it
Igfig: 1d20+1
Fortuna: Igfig, 1d20+1: [11] = 12
Igfig: yeah all right, you're going first
Santa: frosty has been getting good rolls this session
frosty: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1FdMD4Ogc74
Igfig: but you're coming up from below him, and he has gravity and everything on his side
Igfig: so you're going to have disadvantage on this roll
frosty: aight
frosty: 2#1d20+1 (this was it right??)
Fortuna: frosty, (this was it right??): [16] = 17; (this was it right??): [13] = 14
BlazeNotAppearingInThisSession: Don't you have a higher attack bonus then that?
Igfig: ehm, I don't think so? What are you doing exactly
Igfig: Are you doing the attack where you charge and get +5 to the damage roll?
Igfig: You use your full attack bonus for that, that's Dex + Prof
Igfig: so +8
frosty: 14+8-1
Fortuna: frosty, 14+8-1: [] = 21
frosty: that
Igfig: aye
Igfig: that is in fact a hit!
frosty: you know it
Igfig: roll yo damage
frosty: 2d6+5
Fortuna: frosty, 2d6+5: [2, 1] = 8
Igfig: plus another 5 on top of that for the charge
frosty: what does #atk mean?
frosty: cause i just noticed that
Igfig: eh?
Igfig: oh, the number of attacks you'd make with a normal attack routine
frosty: on the sheet there is #Atk column
frosty: ah
BlazeNotAppearingInThisSession: Oh, that is number of attacks, yar.
Igfig: if you aren't charging, you can make two attacks, but you lose the bonus damage and the shove
BlazeNotAppearingInThisSession: Yar.
frosty: ahhh
Igfig: so yeah, you are just too fast for this one, and you come up under their axe and just freakin fire-uppercut em
frosty: IMMA GO GO GO, THERES NO STOPPING ME
Igfig: Attacking a Juggernaut lets them counterattack immediately with their bodyblades, though
frosty: oh right
frosty: 8+5
Fortuna: frosty, 8+5: [] = 13
Igfig: 1d20+5 vs AC; 1d6+4 damage
Fortuna: Igfig, vs AC: [13] = 18; damage: [6] = 10
frosty: 1d10 fire
Fortuna: frosty, fire: [4] = 4
frosty: 18 hits 
frosty: but is axe magic?
Igfig: neither the axe nor the blades are magic
frosty: i mean its so big i could see it ma- cool
Igfig: So they're pushed back up the stairs a few
Igfig: but they use them as a springboard, taking the momentum and channeling it back into a devastating charge
Igfig: also, still retaining the high ground, so has advantage on these attacks
frosty: ok
Igfig: oh, before I do that though, takes damage from burning
Igfig: 1d10
Fortuna: Igfig, 1d10: [8] = 8
Igfig: aright
Igfig: now:
Igfig: 2#1d20+5 vs AC
Fortuna: Igfig, vs AC: [15] = 20; vs AC: [19] = 24
Igfig: 2#1d20+5 vs AC
Fortuna: Igfig, vs AC: [14] = 19; vs AC: [17] = 22
Igfig: I think those both hit
frosty: yup
Igfig: 2#1d12+4+2d6
Fortuna: Igfig, 1d12+4+2d6: [8, 2, 6] = 20; 1d12+4+2d6: [4, 3, 4] = 15
Santa: wait did another dude come laong
Igfig: 35 damage total
Igfig: Nah, they just have two attacks
frosty: 35/2
Fortuna: frosty, 35/2: [] = 17
Santa: beat their butt ben
Igfig: yeah, you're up
frosty: 2#1d20+8
Fortuna: frosty, 1d20+8: [14] = 22; 1d20+8: [17] = 25
frosty: boom motherfucker
Igfig: you still have disadvantage on your attacks, so that's just your first attack roll
frosty: yeah
Igfig: This high ground is pretty significant isn't it
Igfig: anyway, what are you doing with this attack?
frosty: it hits yeah?
Igfig: it does, yes
frosty: can i go for the knees and flip him over medown the stairs
Santa: do warforged feel pain
Igfig: Sure. That'd have been a grapple check though, not an attack roll
Santa: id assume since they were crafted to be soldiers from that magic gate they wouldnt 
Igfig: so just +4, not +8
Santa: maybe something else so they know they are being hurt but not delibitating like pain is
Igfig: magic gate, what?
frosty: 14+4
Fortuna: frosty, 14+4: [] = 18
Igfig: are you thinking of shardminds?
Santa: werent warforged made from a huge structure
Igfig: you're thinking of shardminds
Santa: oh ok
Santa: well do either feel pain
Igfig: warforged are made in creation forges
Santa: oh ok
Igfig: well, on production lines, but then they go through the creation forge to have their construct consciousness instilled in them and their ghul'ra etched
frosty: do i feel pain???
Igfig: it's what makes them living constructs and not just animated wood/metal/stone
frosty: nerves and shit
Santa: so how long did it take you to learn all this lore
frosty: idk how i even think w/o a brain
frosty: he is making this up on the spot
Igfig: They can feel pain some, but not the same way humans do. You... probably, because in your case a lot of your bodily functions are replaced by magic
Santa: elementals have a mind
Igfig: so yes you can probably feel pain
frosty: i got magic shits
Igfig: speaking of which, can I get another Con save
frosty: 1d20+8
Fortuna: frosty, 1d20+8: [17] = 25
frosty: booooooom
Igfig: great, it still hurts like hell but you're got going to explode yet
frosty: man i was a genius for putting everything into con
Igfig: also, I'm thinking about it and you're actually in an ideal position to be doing that go for the knees, flip them down the stairs thing
frosty: yes
frosty: why i thought of it
Igfig: so that roll would actually have had advantage, not disadvantage
Igfig: so it's 21, not 18
Igfig: anyway, here's the opposed rol for that
frosty: aight
Igfig: 1d20+6
Fortuna: Igfig, 1d20+6: [1] = 7
Igfig: OH SHIT
frosty: hahahahhahahh
Igfig: You fuckin heave them
Igfig: 2d6 falling damage
Fortuna: Igfig, falling damage: [4, 3] = 7
frosty: WHEN YOU FUCKERS GONNA LEARN NOT TO STOP ME
Igfig: and lands prone
Igfig: they're bloodied
Igfig: you still have your move and one attack left
frosty: into the throne room
frosty: fuck this bloody chumpstick
Igfig: all right
Igfig: you slip in through the door
Igfig: the room is much as you remember it, except right now it's empty
Igfig: the windows have been repaired
frosty: dammit
Igfig: Let me just find the description I used last time
frosty: no convienently placed shards? just lying on the floor
Santa: check up his elevator
frosty: good point
frosty: gonna elevate this shit
Igfig: let's see, it's 50 wide by 60 deep
frosty: so the only benefit to this fireball is a tummyache
frosty: fuck you varus
Igfig: the elevator is about two-thirds of the way across the room
Santa: thats why i was researching
Igfig: and the controls are on a post coming out of the floor
frosty: how much research does it take to determine 'tummyache'
Igfig: around the sides of the room there are some pillars
frosty: school nurses do it 50 times daily
Igfig: but other than that, it was a pretty empty place
Igfig: also, varus had the "internal distress" part figured out pretty quick
Igfig: since most of the elementals that suffered any effects from his experiments at all, exploded
Santa: yaeh
Santa: i was trying to make sure that didnt happen
Igfig: you're handling it better than most of the others did, but if you don't figure something out soon you're going to go the same way
Santa: hmm
Santa: does the fortress have a shard
Santa: elemental shard engine thing
Igfig: maybe? You're not sure
BlazeNotAppearingInThisSession: Like magical pepto bismol.
Santa: could ben get into that to stabalize for a while
frosty: yeah if i wanted stable i would jump back into my shard
Igfig: Anyway! Frosty! What're you doing?
frosty: but stability wont rock this ship with the ghost of freddie mercury
frosty: up the elevator
Igfig: the elevator controls are three buttons, unlabeled, in a horizontal line
frosty: i was right in front of him when he pushed to get away
frosty: do i remember which
Igfig: Int check
Santa: 1d3
Fortuna: Santa, 1d3: [2] = 2
Santa: press the middle one
frosty: 1d20+1
Fortuna: frosty, 1d20+1: [16] = 17
frosty: this ship can s my d
Igfig: Your Int is 10
frosty: ?
Igfig: just straight 1d20, not 1d20+1
frosty: oh that one
Igfig: anyway
BlazeNotAppearingInThisSession: Which is still pretty good, yar.
frosty: i was lookig at insight i guess
Igfig: The Lord of Blades just kind of slammed the buttons open-handed when they went up before, so it was hard to tell exactly which button was pressed... but you're pretty sure it was one of the ones on the left
Igfig: either left or middle
Santa: fortuna should ben press the middle button?
Fortuna: Signs point to yes.
frosty: well how far apart are the buttons how big were his hands? cause if they were close and he had giant hands you wouldnt just slam the middle
frosty: youd push more than one
frosty: this is good enough reasoning for frosty to push the left
frosty: without hearing dissuasions
Igfig: All right
Igfig: You hear gears begin to turn, and the elevator jerks into motion
Igfig: moving down
Santa: HAH
frosty: i am fine with this
Igfig: As it does, the doors to the throne room slam back open
frosty waves as i go down
Igfig: and the juggernaut bursts through
Igfig: does not even stop, they just jump straight down into the shaft on top of you
Igfig: you're only about 15 feet down at this point
frosty: 1d10
Fortuna: frosty, 1d10: [3] = 3
frosty: :/
Igfig: this is a charge attack
frosty: ok
Igfig: no advantage this time, but there'll be some extra damage to both of you from the falling damage
Igfig: 2#1d20+5 vs AC
Fortuna: Igfig, vs AC: [10] = 15; vs AC: [14] = 19
Igfig: aw shit did I crash
Igfig: did Fortuna crash
Santa: nope
Santa: i see you talking
frosty: i can deal
Igfig: ah good, and there we go
BlazeNotAppearingInThisSession: I don't think so
frosty: woo
frosty: 19 hits, not sure on 15
Igfig: both hits, right?
Igfig: your AC appears to be 15
frosty: yeah
Igfig: 2#1d12+4+2d6
Fortuna: Igfig, 1d12+4+2d6: [10, 1, 2] = 17; 1d12+4+2d6: [1, 5, 1] = 11
Igfig: and you both take 1d6 falling damage
Igfig: 1d6
Fortuna: Igfig, 1d6: [3] = 3
frosty: aight
frosty: then i punch him
frosty: 1d20+8
Fortuna: frosty, 1d20+8: [8] = 16
Igfig: oh huh, it looks like elementals might actually take full damage from falling
Igfig: that is a miss
Igfig: you have two attacks though
frosty: yeah
frosty: i counted full
frosty: beause falling isnt a weapon
Igfig: aright, cool
frosty: 1d20+8
Fortuna: frosty, 1d20+8: [10] = 18
Igfig: half damage from the attack itself though, of course
Igfig: 18 is a hit!
frosty: 2d6+5
Fortuna: frosty, 2d6+5: [2, 2] = 9
Igfig: awright
frosty: i have been jotting the damage in as it happens if you wanna check it
Igfig: I'm looking right now
frosty: in the current hp equation
Igfig: is that your hp remaining, or your damage taken?
frosty: remaining
Igfig: oh wow, you've taken more damage than I thought
frosty: 19 from the crash, then 5 from something, 17 then 14 from this dude, 3 from fall
Igfig: still only barely bloodied though, you're kind of a beast
Igfig: oh right, damage from the crash
Igfig: makes sense now
frosty: coulda just jumped it back up and you wouldnt even know
Igfig: I appreciate your honesty
Igfig: Okay so it's the juggernaut's turn
Igfig: 1d10 fire damage to start
Fortuna: Igfig, fire damage to start: [5] = 5
Igfig: oh! I forgot the blade attack reaction from your punch
Igfig: 1d20+5 vs AC
Fortuna: Igfig, vs AC: [6] = 11
Igfig: well it missed anyway
Igfig: Two axe attacks
Igfig: 2#1d20+5
Fortuna: Igfig, 1d20+5: [4] = 9; 1d20+5: [3] = 8
Igfig: wow
frosty: hehehe
Igfig: clearly it is hard to swing an axe that big in this relatively restricted space
frosty: wait was that an attack roll or damage
Igfig: attack rolls
Igfig: they all mised
Igfig: The elevator emerges into a high-ceilinged room
frosty: ok cool
frosty: sucker
frosty: i punch him off
Igfig: aright
Igfig: Athletics check, as usual
frosty: 1d20+8
Fortuna: frosty, 1d20+8: [10] = 18
Igfig: athletics, not acrobatics
Igfig: so that's just 14
Igfig:  1d20+6
Fortuna: Igfig,  1d20+6: [18] = 24
frosty: ah ok
Igfig: stays strong this time, this one's getting wise to your tricks
Igfig: you still have an attack left
frosty: so whats the +8 on the hit column mean then
BlazeNotAppearingInThisSession: that's your to hit for attacks, where as the push is an athletics check, yar.
Igfig: That's for regular attacks. Your normal attacks are just "get your fiery bits in their face", so it's Dex based. The 8 is 5 (Dex bonus) + 3 (prof bonus).  But actually picking someone up or pushing them over is Str-based—ie Athletics.
Igfig: which is 1 (Str bonus) + 3 (prof bonus)
frosty: ahhh
frosty: ok then ill just punch him
Igfig: anyway, the floor and walls of this room are covered in all kinds of magical and alchemical devices
frosty: 1d20+8
Fortuna: frosty, 1d20+8: [2] = 10
frosty: whiff!
Igfig: aye
frosty: i am too busy laughing at his failures to hit straight
frosty: oooo magic shit
frosty: 1d10 me damage to him
Fortuna: frosty, me damage to him: [4] = 4
Igfig: You can see various types of construct waldos, big glass tubes filled with bubbling liquids, furnaces and woodworking tools, everything studded with Eberron dragonshards in magically significant arrangements
frosty: i damage people by being near them, this strikes me as both cool and psychologically damaging
Igfig: Clearly the workshop of an artificer of great skill
frosty: YESSSSSSSSSSSSS
Igfig: but those are the less interesting things in the room
frosty: oooo if i wannt make a super sonic man of him can i redo the push roll
Igfig: the most obvious things are: a large conveyor belt looking thing coming up from below
frosty: fate that thing
Igfig: and a somewhat smaller version of this:
Igfig: http://www.valikorlia.com/D&D/BOTS/Pictures/Creation%20Forge.jpg
Igfig: (about half as big)
frosty: NAILED IT
BlazeNotAppearingInThisSession: That is an important looking thingy.
frosty: FUCK YOUR MIDDLE BUTTON WAFFLE
Igfig: certainly is
frosty: I GIVE  YOUR MIDDLE BUTTON THE MIDDLE FINGER
Igfig: Also, perception check
frosty: 1d20+1
Fortuna: frosty, 1d20+1: [15] = 16
Santa: what IS that
Igfig: One other thing you notice, on the far side of the big glowy thing. A sort of array of covered pedestals, connected by cables and other things to the big thing. It looks hasty and jury-rigged, but it reminds you a bit of your dragonshard housing on the ship
Igfig: Oh, and one more thing
Igfig: this place isn't empty
frosty: the godforge
Igfig: there are about half a dozen warforged of various shapes and designs in here
BlazeNotAppearingInThisSession: It is the important looking thingy.
BlazeNotAppearingInThisSession: I'm thinking we may be due for a music change here pretty quick.
Igfig: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nReqeBSp_WY
Igfig: This one
frosty: "HELLO"
Igfig: All right
Santa: fuckin lavos theme
Igfig: So, as we were saying
Igfig: Gonna make a supersonic man out of this juggernaut?
Igfig: How're you doing it
frosty: re-roll the push to shove him like BOOM
Igfig: Right, but I mean like
frosty: if not its cool just a thought
Igfig: can you narrate what actually happens
Igfig: you tried to push them, they resisted, BUT THEN—
frosty: while we're pushing and missing eachother with our dumbass hands, i bring my 20mph foot into his chest like a spartan
Igfig: Also you probably want to be forcing the juggernaut to reroll instead of rerolling yourself, since they got a really good roll
frosty: oh
Igfig: same description, just I'll reroll instead of you
frosty: no i got this
frosty: while hes so stalwart-like pushed against me from the front, i use my miss to gain position on his back, forcing his force to continue into space
frosty: like when someone is pushing against you and you step back and they faceplant infront of you
Igfig: aye
Igfig: all right then
Igfig:  1d20+6
Fortuna: Igfig,  1d20+6: [10] = 16
Igfig: OOO
Igfig: you got an 18, right?
frosty: i think
Igfig: RIGHT OFF THE SIDE
Igfig: that's abotu 30 feet up I think
Igfig:  3d6
Fortuna: Igfig,  3d6: [3, 5, 1] = 9
BlazeNotAppearingInThisSession: I think I have found a very good I suppose it is more of an alternate arrangement then a remix, but yar, remix of that theme, not as long as that video but yar.
BlazeNotAppearingInThisSession: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ICWOP8fQGo
Igfig: lands with a crash and shatter right on top of a big spike thing that's inexplicably there in the middle of everything
Igfig: and goes limp
Igfig: okay, I need to grab something to drink and a snack, if that's okay
Igfig: break, meet back in five mins
frosty: yeah sure
frosty: goddammit, if this magicshard room actually does have thakishtai, i might have to think of more plan
frosty: i was counting on one of the left branches, tbh
BlazeNotAppearingInThisSession: Dun dun duns.
Santa: how dare igfig need human functions
Santa: he must be a dming machine
Igfig: okay, I'm back
Igfig: Frosty, make a Con check
frosty: 1d20+8
Fortuna: frosty, 1d20+8: [4] = 12
frosty: heheh
Igfig: uh oh
frosty: might not have to plan more after all!!
Igfig: The blazing energy in you, that you'd been holding in so well you thought, suddenly surges stronger
Igfig: excruciating pain, far worse than what you'd been dealing with up til now, shoots all through your body
Igfig: and your midsection starts to bulge as the fireball inflates larger
frosty: straight to the waist
Igfig: your flames are shot through with strange colours, blues and blacks
frosty: everything i eat
Igfig: you don't think you can hold on much longer
Igfig: one more failed check and that'll be it
BlazeNotAppearingInThisSession: Guess you'll just have to burn off the extra weight.
Igfig: er, con save
Santa: is it dc 15
Santa: time for ben to anime
Igfig: something like that
Santa: we assist him by sending the power of our belief and friendship
frosty yells
frosty: ahhhhhhh
Igfig: all the various warforged look up at you
frosty:  "HELLO"
Igfig: instead of at the dead juggernaut that they were looking at a moment before
frosty: these guys dont shoot on sight they might be cool
Igfig: then they all leap into action, some running for strange devices, others drawing wands out of desks, some just standing and hurling cantrips at you
frosty: :(
BlazeNotAppearingInThisSession: Tuning another song now.
frosty: a bunch of wizards gathered around dragonshards, fuckers gonna try to bind me
frosty: i am still high in the air right
frosty: "HOW GOES?"
Santa: man betcha wished we were around huh
Igfig: yeah, you've got some cover from the elevator still
frosty: nothing could make me wish varus was here
Igfig: so +2 to AC and dex saves for the next round or two
Igfig: make a dex save, you're also being targeted by a ranged attack
frosty: 1d20+7
Fortuna: frosty, 1d20+7: [9] = 16
Igfig:  1d20+4 vs AC
Fortuna: Igfig, vs AC: [20] = 24
Igfig: oh damn
frosty: hahaha
BlazeNotAppearingInThisSession: Yar, I think I've got this song tuned properly now:
BlazeNotAppearingInThisSession: http://labs.echonest.com/Uploader/index.html?trid=TRNTFIU149DFEB0143&jb=1
frosty: "DONT HURT ME OR I WILL EXPLODE"
BlazeNotAppearingInThisSession: Cause things have turned more dire now, yar.
Igfig: you dodged the acid splash, but the ray of frost got you right in the face
Igfig:  2d8 cold damage
Fortuna: Igfig, cold damage: [2, 1] = 3
Santa quit.
frosty: "I DONT KNOW HOW I AM NOT AN EXPLOSION ALREADY"
Igfig: but you're so hot it hardly matters
yoshi joined #pwot_dnd.
frosty: "FOR YOUR OWN SAFETY YOU SHOULD STOP"
Igfig: anyway
Igfig: Hmm
Igfig: If you're actually trying to convince them of this, Cha check?
frosty: 1d20+1
Fortuna: frosty, 1d20+1: [19] = 20
Igfig: oh wow
frosty: ty Fortuna 
Igfig: you are rolling really well today
Igfig: they stop, uncertain
Igfig: wands and rods still pointed at you
Igfig: "Halt. Go back. Do not explode."
frosty: hmmmm
frosty: as a walking bomb, i have leverage eh
Igfig: mayhap
frosty: "you have dragon shards here, yeah?"
Igfig: "..."
Igfig: say the warforged totally surrounded by dragonshards, everywhere
frosty: "i just want 3 of them, you look like you can spare that many"
Igfig: Do you remember the difference between the different types of dragonshards?
frosty: do i or does frosty? cause i think frosty would be pretty intimately aware of which shard he wanted
BlazeNotAppearingInThisSession: You could have him specify the 3 dragonshard containing the quorri, yar.
Igfig: Asking both, really
BlazeNotAppearingInThisSession: I think I spelled that wrong.
Igfig: just one r
BlazeNotAppearingInThisSession: Yup.
frosty: i never knew, except i saw something on where they are found
Igfig: I did mention it a while back, but quick refresher then
frosty: like geode vs asteroid vs caves or some shit
Igfig: three types: Eberron, Khyber, Siberys
Igfig: which are red, bluish-black, and gold respectively
Igfig: coming from geodes, the depths of Khyber, and meteor showers from the planet's ring
Igfig: Eberron shards are the most generic, you can use them for just about anything
Igfig: Khyber shards are for binding, sealing extraplanar entities inside them (like elementals or quori. Almost always elementals.)
Igfig: and siberys shards interact with dragonmarks, which you don't have to worry about because none of you are dragonmarked
Igfig: so the shards you're looking for are khyber shards
Igfig: eberron shards are the ones they have a ton of all over the place in here
frosty: ok then change my second bit to be 3 khyber
Igfig: all right
Igfig: They look at each other uncertainly
Igfig: insight check
frosty: 1d20+1
Fortuna: frosty, 1d20+1: [14] = 15
frosty: hmm
Igfig: yeah ok
Igfig: one of them glances over at the covered pedestal-housing things on the far side of the pillar
frosty: excellent
frosty: "excellent"
Igfig: "We do not know to what you are referring."
Igfig: "Leave or we will be forced to remove you from this sacred place."
frosty: "see someone took some of mine and in response i became a bomb, so i would really like them back, is the thing"
frosty: oo i should intimidate with that
frosty: 1d20+4
Fortuna: frosty, 1d20+4: [3] = 7
frosty: hahahha
frosty: they laugh 
frosty: 'idiot'
Igfig: you were a bit too folksy and roundabout to be properly intimidating there
frosty: i dont want trouble, you dont want trouble, that fellow on the pike there wanted trouble though"
frosty: i should be on the ground by now
Igfig: "If you do not desire trouble. We will. Discuss this in another location. Please exit through the door to the left."
Igfig: you are on the ground, yes
Igfig: there are still wands pointed at you
frosty: "but the shards are here. if we go left, we are just gonna go right again to get back, right?"
Igfig: "..."
Igfig: "Yes."
frosty: "lovely"
Igfig: even with your not terribly good passive insight, you can tell that they're lying there
yoshi: man that is an obvious trap
frosty: we still have the map to that chestplate on board the ship yes?
Igfig: the what?
frosty: locater or whatever
Igfig: the orb of location?
frosty: nah the papers that you spent a month trying to figure out what they said
Igfig: oh, the stuff about the docent
frosty: sure lets just start making up words
BlazeNotAppearingInThisSession: Yeah I'd assume those were on the ship still.
Igfig: http://community.wizards.com/forum/eberron/threads/1452426
Igfig: is what a docent is
BlazeNotAppearingInThisSession: Also, google definitions say a docent is a person who acts as a guide, typically voluntarily, at a museum, art gallery, or zoo, so it has meaning outside of D&D too.
Igfig: also true
BlazeNotAppearingInThisSession: And thus I learned something new today.
frosty: "hey, im a fair guy, i dont want you to give me something for nothing after i've come so far, ive got some papers about some docent on my ship, ill trade you, one thing of mine for another"
frosty: tee hee hee
frosty: "..." -ig now
Igfig: They do actually look interested in this
Igfig: these guys definitely know what a docent is
frosty: yeesss
Igfig: "Let us go to your vessel. Show us your documents and we will permit you to leave. Do not explode in this room."
frosty: "hang on now, it is a trade"
Igfig: "You must stand further from the forge before any trades can be made."
frosty: "alright sure"
Igfig: Int check
Igfig: from any of you, even
frosty moves to wherever that one dude looked"
BlazeNotAppearingInThisSession: Me too even?
Igfig: actually, arcana or history would be appropriate as well
yoshi: 1d20+6
Fortuna: yoshi, 1d20+6: [11] = 17
Igfig: and yes, even you who aren't appearing in this game
Igfig: *session
frosty: from all of us?
Igfig: yeah
frosty: 1d20
Fortuna: frosty, 1d20: [18] = 18
BlazeNotAppearingInThisSession: Well I've got neither history nor arcana so it is a pure int check for me.
BlazeNotAppearingInThisSession: 1d20+2
Fortuna: BlazeNotAppearingInThisSession, 1d20+2: [1] = 3
frosty: haha
Igfig: well, as it happens Frosty did best anyway, somehow
BlazeNotAppearingInThisSession: This seems appropriate.
frosty: hahahah
Igfig: I am not sure how he'd even know this, but at the end of the Last War
frosty: the fireball is sharing its knowledge with me
Igfig: one of the major terms of the Treaty of Thronehold was that no more warforged could be produced. House Cannith would shut down and decommission all of their creation forges.
Igfig: (basically this was a nonproliferation treaty)
frosty: ahahahaha
frosty: ig look on skype
Igfig: oh, hah
frosty: it is exactly the same roll and everything
Igfig: yeah, I guess you did know that then
Igfig: anyway, it's possible that some forges were left intact, either intentionally because Cannith doesn't like being told not to science, or missed because they were inaccessible
Igfig: anyway
frosty: yes
Igfig: where were we
BlazeNotAppearingInThisSession: You were talking about trade, they wanted to go to the ship to get the papers, Frosty wants the shards before the room has been left.  right?
frosty: they said to please move a way from the forge, i said yes and starting walking toward the kyber shards
Igfig: well, they're on the other side of the forge, so just to be clear, you're not actually moving any further from the forge when you do that
frosty: i know
Igfig: aright
Igfig: "Halt. Halt. We will take the dragonshards and give them to you. Outside. If you handle the shards you may explode."
BlazeNotAppearingInThisSession: I wonder what would happen if Frosty burped right now.
frosty: uhh really
frosty: i dont intake air
BlazeNotAppearingInThisSession: well, you do and you don't, just, yar, I dunno.
frosty: i am actually not entirely certain how i ate the fireball
Igfig: just kinda absorbed it through your head bit
yoshi: just flipped the sock over
yoshi: and dumped it down your gullet
frosty: i dont have a gullet
frosty: i dont intake food
yoshi: your fire parted to form a gullet
frosty: these organs are not needed or present
Igfig: all right Frosty what are you doing
frosty: "no i need to look at them, so i make sure i only take the three i want, would be such a hassle to both of us to have to do this again"
Igfig: "Do not joke. This is not a laughing matter."
frosty: "i'm not joking, i really do need to check to make sure"
Igfig: "You may check once you are outside. We will not betray you. An explosion in this room is not a risk we are prepared to take."
Igfig: "This is the survival of our people at stake."
Igfig: If you kept walking, you have now reached the first pedestal
frosty: can i check to see how sincire they sound
Igfig: definitely
Igfig: insight
frosty: 1d20+1 
Fortuna: frosty, 1d20+1: [4] = 5
Igfig: you aren't sure
frosty: looks legit
yoshi: can he arcana to sort of sense the shards to see if he can find the right one
Igfig: well, there are only three pedestals there
Igfig: actually wait, let me clarify
Igfig: there are twelve pedestals, but only three of them are covered (and thus presumably occupied)
Igfig: you could make a Wis check to try and intuit which one is Thakashtai
frosty: can i not tell by looking when i see it?
Igfig: not really. Remember how you guys couldn't even tell that there were quori already bound to the shards when you stole them?
yoshi: well now he knows thats they are in there
yoshi: if hes searching to sense them
Igfig: It takes some Arcana checks to check that, or you could look inside like you do when you talk to the quori normally
Igfig: Hmm
frosty: well theyre idiot fleshbags
frosty: frosty knows shards, practicly lives in shards
Igfig: You've gotten pretty good at talking to them though, you could contact them just by touching the shards now
Igfig: but I guess you might be able to recognize which shard is which just by comparing the patterns in the stones
frosty: thats what i was thinking
Igfig: ah, right
Igfig: okay, investigation check then
Igfig: a pretty easy one
frosty: 1d20+3
Fortuna: frosty, 1d20+3: [15] = 18
Igfig: all right
Igfig: you uncover the pedestals
Igfig: and immediately recognize the shards on the pedestals, wired into the housings, as the homes of your beloved and her kin
Igfig: well, "homes"
Igfig: prisons really
Igfig: and yes you know which one is which
frosty: well damn
frosty: i really did not think i'd reach step 4