Immortal Platypus

I just learned about sidereal time and now my head hurts.

to all of you people in orchestra (and the people not in it, but slightly less so) go listen to Saint Paul's Suite. especially the 4th movement. We just played it in class. My arm hurts now, but it sounds good(ish)!

I hate writing speeches.

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ha! got one!

Session 0 & 1 updates! I will now reveal why I said I was a large lad, a big fellow, a massive man, perhaps even a gargantuan guy. I am playing... a half-orc, half-giant. He is about 20 feet tall, and is as dumb as they come. But he is incredibly strong. On to the updates.

Session 0:

We drew up the character sheet for A (one player), and came up with a character for @Edema Rue. I'll let her tell you about her character. (Some of the stuff won't make too much sense until she explains.) We didn't do much besides this.

Session 1:

A and J are both bounty hunters. They are met in an alley by a dragon born who tells them to capture (alive) a man in the forest. When pressed about him, it is revealed that he is very big. 

Cut to me. I am sitting, leaning on a tree. On the other side of the tree is Eddie. Neither of us is aware of the other, but she is drawn to my attention for some reason (I forgot). I don't see her at first, and pull the tree out of the ground to try to find who is talking to me. When I see her, I pick her up and throw her in my backpack. I hear footsteps of my pursuers (I used to be a slave on a pirate ship, and they want me back) and start running, with Eddie in the bag.

Cut to A and J. They are now tracking the man, and follow the steps when they see a giant man barreling towards them. Naturally, they assume that this is the man they're hunting, and A shoots Him with a bonus from J's bardic inspiration.

That man was me. I take 13 damage (which would be enough to kill any of the other party members), fall over, and enter a rage (I'm playing a Barb). Eddie takes fall damage and runs out of my backpack. 6 bounty hunters arrive. They were the ones chasing me. I get up, and uproot a tree, which I will use as a weapon. Combat initiates.

Initiative order: Bounty hunters, A and J, Me, Eddie

Bounty hunters attack. 5 of them shoot guns at me (they were hired to kill, not capture). One penetrates my AC and does 14 damage. Thankfully, because of my rage, it does half damage. I am now at 1 health. The sixth guy charges in. I'm terrified, thinking, "I'm gonna have to redo an entire character and I like this guy."  But I use my reaction to hit the guy with my tree as he gets in range. It does 23 damage and kills him.

A and J's turn. They ride some elk (recently tamed through Animal Friendship) around to get to the back of the bounty hunters. A attacks, but misses.

My turn. I run forward, and hit the front group of three bounty hunters with my tree. I do 23 damage again, and kill 2, knocking the third unconscious. My pet wolf attacks a different bounty hunter, knocking it unconscious. 

Eddie's turn. She uses a spell to wrap me in vines, trying to immobilize me. I succeed my strength check and break them.

Hunter's turn. One is left that is alive and conscious. He chooses to shoot my wolf. He rolls a 1 and the gun explodes in his hands, doing 6 damage.

A and J's turn. J sneaks behind him and knocks him unconscious with the butt of his spear. Then they get back on the elk and start running away. A shoots the ground beneath my feet with an explosive bullet. The bullet knocks me off my feet and I would take 1 damage. However, due to my rage halving the damage, and always rounding down in DND, I take 0 damage.

My turn. I get up and chase after them, dropping the tree and picking up two rocks. I throw them at A and J respectively. Both miss.

A and J's turn. They continue running. I forgot if A attacked, but if he did, it didn't work.

My turn. Last turn of rage. I won't be able to keep up with them if I run out of rage. I chase them, pick up two rocks and throw them at A and J. The rock thrown at J misses. The rock thrown at A gets a 20. I do 3d6 (1d6 x2 because of the crit, and I add a damage die due to half orc trait Brutal Critical). He takes 7 damage, and is knocked unconscious. Rage ends, and I fall over. I succeed my Con saving throw to avoid falling unconscious. My vengeance for the bullet has been achieved and I am willing to stop chasing them.

A and J's turn. J pushes the rock off of A and picks him up. They run away and find a cave. Combat ends.

I follow them, using a tree I just uprooted as a crutch. Eddie also comes. They go into the cave they find. I lie down outside the cave and take a short rest, eating and using a hit die to regain full health. J starts to set up a camp, but the ground beneath both A and Eddie sinks, and they get trapped down a hole, in a cage. They begin adventuring down there after A shoots the lock off the door. 

Above them, J notices 16 goblins come up from deeper down the cave. I stick my head in, then pull it out, put my backpack on my hand, and punch 7 of the goblins at once, doing 12 damage and killing all of them. 

A and Eddie find a Beholder in a cell. Eventually they release it and it floats them back up to the surface. They all exit the cave (including J) and I collapse the entrance. We walk back to a town.

A is a demon and burns a tree branch, using the ash to regain health. J visits the man who hired them, getting the 5 gold they were promised to capture me. The people giving the hirer the money didn't specify what to do after I was captured, so they got the money and a second mission. For this one, they were told to meet a person in the woods.

Eddie and I come with them this time. We meet a dragonborn who is the vice-mayor of the town. He tells us the mayor is corrupt, and he offers us 16 gold to get him to leave the town. We agree, and start forming a plan (and by that I mean, J starts forming a plan and the rest of us listen.)

And that's where we left off! I'm excited to go back and do more. I really enjoy this character. I'll keep ya'll updated. Eddie, if there's anything I missed, feel free to point it out.

Alright guys, I've finished my character sheet for my upcoming campaign. I'll need to check off a few things with the DM, and adjust a few things about my character (it's a little hard to make a character when their race isn't in the handbook you have...) but it should be fun. I was playing a very min-maxed PC before, and this guy is not that. I'm looking forward to the play style with him, it'll be very different and fun. I'll let ya'll know how it goes!

My DM has started a new campaign and I'm super excited. I got @Edema Rue roped into it too. I can't say too much about my character cause Eddie will find out about him at session 0 and not a moment sooner, but some might call him a big boy. Perhaps a large lad.

Guys, this is legitimately starting to get weird. A while back, I had a debate tournament. I was entered in two events (International Extemp and PF for those interested). The tournament was two days, speech day (Friday) and debate day (Saturday). I had a judge for my second round on speech day. That same judge was my judge second or third round on debate day. (This isn't that weird, it's happened before.) Then, that Monday, that judge was a sub for one of my classes. Then I was at the school like three hours after it ended on the Tuesday after that, and they were there. And now they're my sub. Coincidence? Probably 

I THINK NOT!

It's really hitting right now. The seniors are leaving. The swim team banquet was tonight, and my friends and my sister are seniors. They're leaving. The debate seniors are leaving. It's finally feeling... real. I need some hugs

It's official guys. I'm an idiot. I lost my 4.0 because I was too busy being lazy. What a waste. 

o7 matpat. You will be missed on GT. Thanks for all the videos and theories over the years. It's been fun

Film Theory's Finale is out!

do you ever just get Evermore stuck in your head? Just me?

Happy Birthday!

Results are in from S&E and I got 1- on both my performances. It's a superior that isn't enough to qualify for state. I did good enough to fail. Great.  

I'm actually very happy, I didn't expect to do that good.

You have a birthday today. congratulations. hope it's a good one!

alright, here me out. We should get a coppermind page on the drunk monkey theory.

For those of you who haven't listened to Epic, go listen to it, especially the ocean saga.

Happy Single Person appreciation day all ya single pringles! and happy Valentine's Day to the rest of ya'll!

 

You know, I just realized that I have @NameIess to thank for Hacob. He created my current Narrator (Hacob) who I know love having and RPing as (it's nice to have another character to use when Platypus is off doing some crazy thing). So thanks Nameless!

Alright! Regions is over, and results are in! Our team took 4th of 7, so not too bad. There were two teams that are the best, then a team and ours, which was a toss-up of who would take 3rd and 4th, then 3 more that would take 5th 6th and 7th. I did pretty good. I dropped 4 seconds on my IM, making this season a great one. I have not had a meet where I have not dropped time this year. All in all, it's been a great year, and I'm gonna miss the seniors. They're all leaving, and it's sad.

Region swim meet tomorrow. Hoping to PR. I'll let ya'll know how it goes!

my advice that is now seminary approved is this: don't be an idiot