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[blackjackkent]

OK, I've never had to fight Gerringothe before so this is scary. She's kind of terrifying.

She has roughly 600 health; the vast majority of it comes from the six pieces of armor she is wearing:

Gee, game, that's a good question.

The fight opens in a very frightening manner, because Gerringothe has an attack which does damage proportional to the amount of gold the target is carrying - and Rakha has all our party's gold at the moment.

Holy shit. (I believe by 5e rules Rakha should be straight up DEAD dead given this much damage, but the game is merciful and just downs her instead.)

The bright side here is that no one else in the party can be hurt by this attack at all, although I don't expect it's the only thing in Lady G's arsenal.

The secret to this fight appears to be those weird talking skulls scattered around the place, as killing each of them removes one piece of Gerringothe's armor. They're vulnerable to psychic damage, which Lae'zel's sword does, and which Minthara can do with Wrathful Smite, so we're not out of options here.

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AFTER ACTION REPORT:

This actually didn't go as badly as I thought it was going to.

It didn't go WELL, mind you. I had Lae'zel help Rakha back up with Action Surge and Rakha immediately got downed again by Jealous Avarice on the next turn, so it seemed reasonable to assume she just didn't get to participate in this fight. (I'm sure her companions were thrilled that she basically picked this fight and then napped through it. XD )

THe thing that I was most worried about was the fact that the skulls were all scattered around the building and would have to be chased down, but they helpfully converged on the group immediately which made it easier for Lae'zel and Minthara to clean them up.

Gerringothe started looking real goofy as all her pieces came off:

Reminds me of the "peeled statues" in The Forgotten City.

Her final form, after all of the skulls were gone, looks like this and has six hit points:

Which Rakha promptly finished off by beating her with her offhand staff.

At this point, several "Combustible Coin" bombs that Gerringothe had sent went off, which promptly downed Rakha again. She fell over with a weird sighing noise like it was honestly just the biggest drag on her day at this point.

But hey, at least everyone survived!

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Rakha lays face down next to Gerringothe's fallen body, barely breathing. The creature did, after all, have blood, and the scent of it fills her with the beast's gleeful eagerness - but she can barely move, let alone relish the victory.

She feels a gentle hand on her shoulder. Wyll is crouched at her side, pulling her to her feet. For a moment she allows herself to lean heavily into him.

"You're all right..." he murmurs. "We got her."

She doesn't answer, but stays there for a moment, her cheek resting against the top of his head, carefully between the horns. Then she straightens up and turns away. "We should keep moving. This isn't the place we need."

[soloh]

I hate when I say things like "oh I want an ipod classic but with bluetooth so I can use wireless headphones" and some peanut comes in and replies with "so a smartphone with spotify?" No. I want a 160GB+ rectangular monstrosity where I can download every version of every song I want to it and it does nothing except play music and I don't need a data connection and don't have to pay a subscription to not have ads and don't have popups suggesting terrible AI playlists all over the menus.

Gimme the clicky wheel and song titles like "My Chemical Romance- The Black Parade- Blood (Bonus Track)- secret track- album rip- high quality"

[inkskinned]

hey... don't cry.... tesla recall for most cybertrucks, okay? >46,000 vehicles affected <3

[ahotknife]

the thing is that childhood doesn't just end when you turn 18 or when you turn 21. it's going to end dozens of times over. your childhood pet will die. actors you loved in movies you watched as a kid will die. your grandparents will die, and then your parents will die. it's going to end dozens and dozens of times and all you can do is let it. all you can do is stand in the middle of the grocery store and stare at freezers full of microwave pizza because you've suddenly been seized by the memory of what it felt like to have a pizza party on the last day of school before summer break. which is another ending in and of itself

[flogisto]

big fan of stories that, while undoubtedly being about the power of friendship, acknowledge that the power of incredible violence is just as important

the love was there. the love changed everything. the crowbar helped also

[candyskiez]

The fact that people don't think friendship is enough to justify characters doing insane acts of love for each other baffles me. Like have you never loved your friend so so much you want to live in their ribcage. Have you never been really weird about a friend. Have you never wanted to bite your friends parents or shove them down a staircase. Have you never wanted to be buried in the same grave as a friend. Have u never. How do u people live like this.

[mangosandwichs]

one step closer to fitting in

close ups:

[bizarrebazaar13]

what if your doppelgänger wasn’t evil it was just a person. what if your doppelgänger wasn’t trying to replace you it was just trying to learn to be a person and you were the best model it had. what if your doppelgänger looked at you with your eyes and said with your voice that it just wanted to be loved. what then.

[wishfulsketching]

Silco and his terror of a daughter

[captainobviois]

Training my parents to be funnier

[bitchfitch]

writing advice for characters with a missing eye: dear God does losing an eyes function fuck up your neck. Ever since mine crapped out I've been slowly and unconsciously shifting towards holding my head at an angle to put the good eye closer to the center. and human necks. are not meant to accommodate that sorta thing.

[grntaire]

HELLLLLL YEAH!!!!!!!

[crabussy]

slightly furious reminder that fish do in fact feel pain and do in fact experience fear and distress when in pain since people seem to love spreading the myth that fish don't feel pain. what is it with people assuming a creature is incapable of feeling pain or emotion just because it doesn't have complex facial muscles. come on gang

[nightwingsgypsyrep]

*taps microphone* is this thing on? Okay…

🎤 THIS IS A REMINDER THAT ALL OF THE ROBINS ARE SMART, GENIUSES IN FACT. THEY ARE IN A FAMILY OF DETECTIVES. THATS LIKE THEIR WHOLE THING. ALL OF THE ROBINS (AND THE REST OF THE BATFAM TOO) ARE CLEVER, STRATEGIC, AND CAPABLE, NOT JUST TIM. (No hate to my boy Tim, though. I love Tim.) YES, EVEN THAT ONE. Thank you. 🎤

[remnantglow]

looked up a cool artist i found and instead of her actual art the first result google showed me was AI art made with her work. i hate it here!!!!!!!