Another entry in the saga of Gail and her adventures in Equestria:
Last
Friday was the weekly Ponyfinder game. The party is heading into the
xenophobic Ib'xian Empire to rescue slaves. The quietest way to get in
without anyone noticing is through a cave system on the outskirts of the
Crystal Kingdom. The entrance is guarded by multiple black crystals.
My
alchemist is currently sugar rushing, which does temporary WIS damage,
but I double my speed. I'm the scout, but not so smart. Being
not-so-smart, I decide to lick one of the crystals to see what it is and
promptly fail my will save (This entire party groans at this, cause
this is the 3rd time this has happened. I have a bad history with will
saves). I'm cursed, but I manage to drink a part of a potion of Remove
Curse, so the effects aren't bad.
That's only the beginning.
We're
part of the way through the caves when it starts to get hot. It gets
hot enough that we need to stop. I'm still sugar rushing, so I get
nominated to scout down the tunnels. One of the party tosses me his
Cloak of Comfort, so I can survive a while down there. I fly down about
45 minutes and find a cold spot. The entire rock surface of the cave is
covered with brown mold. I fly back to the party and we decide to grow
some of the brown mold in the hottest part, since it feeds on heat.
By
now, I've taken -6 to WIS to maintain my speed. I head back to the
brown mold and scrape some of it up with my shield. Kirby's smiling, so I
dangle the shield from 20 feet of string. When I get close to the
warmest part, the mold on my shield starts growing explosively. I pass
my reflex save easy and drop the shield-on-a-string. Bad idea. The mold
starts growing even faster.
I start racing back to the entrance
as the mold catches up to me. I'm flying as fast as I can, but it's
still not good enough. I end up using my hero point to "Sugar Boom" and
escape the cave without dying. Everyone else heard the rumbling as the
mold grew, so they got out safe, though one party member's cart was
left.
The party is outside staring at the entrance to the cave
as the rumbling gets louder. They see a purple blur shoot out of the
entrance followed by a burst of brown fuzzyness. I don't land, I crash
with a loud crash. The SugarBoom cracked my wings and I'm frozen solid.
The party thaws me, but I am still unconscious. Temporarily, I no longer
have control of my character.
I don't know if he planned it,
but Kirby had me NPCify about 5 minutes before tipoff in the UF/FGCU
game. He's done things like that before, so I think it was on purpose.
Thanks to that, I could watch the game, but still semi-participate.
