A New You, Tuesday, Period Two

[built_fjord_tough]

"Morning class," Fjord said as the students stepped into the danger shop to find that, yes, they were still in the sewers. Lucky class! "So, last time we met here, y'all fought a giant spider that can blink, and then you came across the kobolds building something in the cavern underneath the farmer's field. Turns out, what they were building had a purpose. And not a terribly nefarious one, either."

He lifted hs chin a little.

"Apparently, a bunch of gnolls have been using the sewer system to get into the kobolds' tunnels making their way to their rookery, and have been running off with their eggs, hatchlings, and anybody who has the misfortune of being watching them at the time. The sewers connect to cave systems, which connect in turn to mine shafts and other natural underground caverns further inland, and the kobolds spent a lot of time figuring out which places would be most effective for setting up traps and barriers to prevent the raids as much as they possibly can. Turns out, that metal construct they had been building under the field was supposed to be their first line of defense." Fjord spread his hands. "Turns out, your old buddy Shovels the Kobold knows Common. And the little guy is willing to negotiate peace between the kobolds and the town above... if you do something to stop the gnolls. So, what do you say? Protect some kobold kids? Go find the gnolls and deal with them yourselves? The attacks happen in the late hours of the night, so you've got some time to come up with a plan.

"What do you do?"

[Open! Have some (youtube link) regular gnolls, regular gnolls!]

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[built_fjord_tough]

In a mine shaft full of gnolls!

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[crack_that_whip]

Trevor Belmont Chevy

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[hashtag_chocobro]

Prompto Argentum Seros Glacium

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[goldfishontherocks]

Keyleth Yelden

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[unusual_sith]

Lana Beniko Jatila

Lecture!

[built_fjord_tough]

The plot thickens!

Or Beau just requested gnolls. One of those things.

Adventure!

[built_fjord_tough]

With the usual subthreads!

Adventure - Planning!

[built_fjord_tough]

For your usual pre-encounter plotting amongst yourselves. Things like, 'how do you hunt gnolls,' 'what even IS' a gnoll,' 'think we can get anybody here to assist us on this hunt,' or 'how much do we care about kobold hatchlings anyway?'

You do you, okay?

Re: Adventure - Planning!

[crack_that_whip]

"So,we're fighting other monsters to save the baby monsters from them?" Trevor, please pay better attention to the plotline.

Re: Adventure - Planning!

[goldfishontherocks]

Yelden did not have a staff, a sword, or an invisible wand, just for the record. Yelden did have a morningstar and a motivation that was arguably even in line with her alignment and not just Keyleth’s, though!

“If we take out the gnolls — ” and the grimace that snuck through was Keyleth’s — “the kobolds will leave the farmers alone. I think it’s the best outcome we can get here.”

Re: Adventure - Planning!

[unusual_sith]

"Or we could just block the tunnels so neither of them can get to the farms, and let them battle it out amongst themselves," Jatila suggested.

Adventure - Step Two!

[built_fjord_tough]

For whatever you decide upon! Stick around and wait for the gnolls to come to you? Press onward to find them yourselves and catch them unawares? Say 'fuck Kobolds' and just walk away, leaving dozens of infants to become crunchy snacks for large hyena men?

Other option not yet explored above?

Adventure - Gnolls Question Mark Profit?

[built_fjord_tough]

If you go the battling gnolls route, here you will find regular gnolls, regular gnolls.

Talk to Fjord!

[built_fjord_tough]

Here he is, for all your 'you're about to make me battle murderous beast men, aren't you?' needs.

Re: Talk to Fjord!

[notallbluemonks]

"Well," said Beau, who was absolutely going to crash this class to see what Fjord did with her suggestion, "you got the smell right, that's for sure. Let me guess, they're using the sewers to get around?"

Re: Talk to Fjord!

[built_fjord_tough]

"Why have them travel above ground when I can make the students slog knee-deep in shit for a second week in a row, right?" Fjord smirked a little. "Teaches 'em... fortitude. Or something."

... He hadn't been able to program in a new location this morning.

Re: Talk to Fjord!

[notallbluemonks]

"Nah, I mean, it's a classic," Beau said as she looked around the sewer with an air of familiarity that might have seemed out of place for someone in monk vestments. "Pretty accurate too."

Re: Talk to Fjord!

[built_fjord_tough]

Fjord gave a little chuckle at that, looking around the sewer and crossing his arms over his chest as he mulled it over. How was he not surprised by this?

"You know," he mused, "if nobody's making use of it through the noon hour, we could probably stick around, fight a few gnolls ourselves. I don't see any reason why the students should have all the fun today."

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[notallbluemonks]

Beau's expression went from neutral to maniacally gleeful in a split second. "Let's do it. I'm always down to crack a few skulls."

Which she emphasized by cracking her knuckles.

Re: Talk to Fjord!

[built_fjord_tough]

"And I haven't had a chance to swing my sword around since the whole... snowmen... thing," Fjord replied easily. "Which barely fuckin' counts."

At the end of the day, Eldritch Blast versus sentient snow wasn't much of a contest.

Re: Talk to Fjord!

[notallbluemonks]

"Yeah, they kept getting back up, which is bullshit," Beau grumbled. "This would be a marginal improvement at least. Hitting the practice dummies gets old real fast."

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[built_fjord_tough]

"They don't tend to hit back," Fjord mused. "I suppose the one downside here is that this room has safeties. Those gnolls couldn't hurt a fuckin' fly."

Most people didn't think that was a downside, Fjord.

Re: Talk to Fjord!

[notallbluemonks]

Most people weren't disasters the way they were disasters.

"Ehhhhhhhhhhhhhh. It's better than nothing?" Try and sound a little more convincing, Beau. "I guess?"

Re: Talk to Fjord!

[built_fjord_tough]

"I'll put in a request with the school administration for better gnolls," Fjord offered.

... That would not get them far.

Re: Talk to Fjord!

[notallbluemonks]

". . . sure."

The way Beau was looking at him, it was a safe bet she didn't believe that either.

Re: Talk to Fjord!

[built_fjord_tough]

Fjord gave his shoulders a shrug.

"Figure I stand a better chance of getting it by asking than by wishing," he noted. "Even if you won't catch me holding my breath, either."

Re: Talk to Fjord!

[notallbluemonks]

"I mean, you probably have a better chance at convincing them than I do?" Look at Beau trying to retroactively turn that into a compliment.

Crit fail, Beauregard. Crit fail.

Re: Talk to Fjord!

[built_fjord_tough]

"Well, yeah," Fjord replied, "I'm actually a member of their staff."

And, you know, he had a baller CHA stat.

Re: Talk to Fjord!

[notallbluemonks]

That was to compensate for how Beau's wisdom score was more than double yours, Fjord. Even if she didn't act like it.

As for example right now, because she'd set herself up for that one, hadn't she?

"You know what?" She brought both hands up to flip him off like the mature and level headed 22 year old she was.

Re: Talk to Fjord!

[built_fjord_tough]

And Fjord, in turn, just chuckled and returned the gesture before nodding down into the sewers.

"Come on, Beau," he said, clearly amused, "let's go kill some fucking gnolls."

Talk to the TA!

[built_fjord_tough]

If she's back from her walkabout.

OOC!

[built_fjord_tough]

I dropped the ball like a ball-dropping ball-dropper last week, guys, and I'm sorry about that.

Good news is that I'm an animator on Care Bears now I guess? And also my tiny toddler nibling is out of the hospital and breathing with both lungs again, which is nice. So basically, I have a brain again!

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[goldfishontherocks]

In a mine shaft full of gnooooooooooolls!