//------------------------------// // Roll for initiative // Story: Chambers and Changelings // by Barracuda cyborg //------------------------------// “Like I was saying, your party walks into Town 1.” Repeated Pinkie “Okay now where do we go to buy weapons?” Rainbow asked. “Dash, we don’t have any money.” Applejack said bluntly. “Suddenly the mayor of the town came rushing towards your direction.” Pinkie said moving a figure towards the players. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------     “Help! Help!” The mayor shouted in worry.     “What is it sir?” The paladin asked.     “The ruler of our fair land has been kidnapped by a tyrannical warlord. We tried rescuing her, but our efforts were in vain.” The mayor said, lowering his head.     “Don’t worry yourself we’ll take on this challenge.” The wizard said adjusting her hat.     “Oh good thank you, please take this generous amount of gold as payment.” The mayor said giving the heroes a large sack of gold. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------     “Your party accepts the quest and receives two thousand coins.” Pinkie said as the sound of dice rolling behind the Board Master boards suggesting that she decided their award amount.     “Sweet!” Rainbow said flying up into the air, “Now to the weapons shop!”     “I thought you said this game was for ‘eggheads’.” Twilight said towards Rainbow, who was acting slightly unusual. “Well this is different!” Rainbow shouted, ”We’re already going on an action packed adventure, and not waiting two hours to work on a puzzle.” Pinkie was seeing what was going on and thought her friends were getting off track, “Anyway, your party goes to the shop and must decide what to get.” The group got into a discussion on whether armor or weapons were more important. “Well roll the dice to see which one should be purchased, numbers one to ten are for weapons and anything up to twenty is armor.” The group did so and for once rolling ones were actually good. “Aw come on!” Rainbow yelled in frustration, “Why not weapons?” “Well I prefer having a high defense when starting out in a game.” Octavia said taking out some pictures of her and her various C&C avatars along with their stats showing their high defense. "But wouldn't it get tirin' if we'd just face one enemy and waste an hour fighting it?" Applejack asked, "I agree with Dash we need some form of weaponry." "Ok we get something that will cause some damage, THEN do we get this journey going?" Rarity asked, "I actually do want this to be playing before the storm ends." The sound of dice began to clatter ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The heroes collected their new shields, weapons and spells and began their journey starting with the Mysterious woods of Zolcan. It was a dark and foul place, the sounds of crows filled the silent stale air. the sight of over grown vegetation surrounded the old buildings. The one thing that made it unsettling was the sight of the skeletons of the fallen heroes before them, seeing that they were most likely on the same mission as them but had met their untimely end before they even had a chance. "I feel a dark presence in these woods." The Wizard said as she was leading the group. "Agreed, even the darkest pits of the darkest cities feel more comfortable than this." The Rogue added as she prepared her daggers. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ "Suddenly a Chimera appears!" Pinkie shouted in excitement as cards and papers started to fly up from her energy. This caused some of the group to jump up in surprise. "What do we do?!" Fluttershy asked in fear as she wasn't prepared for battles. "You're a druid Fluttershy, you can communicate with animals." Pinkie replied as she was bursting with excitement, "You can try and roll to make it not want to attack, but it has to be a ten or higher." Fluttershy grabbed the multi sided di and threw it onto the board; after bouncing about for a while it landed on the dreaded number towards all board game players...'1'. "Oh no." "Sorry Fluttershy." Pinkie said as she was rolling her dice, "The Chimera becomes enraged by the failed attempt and you lose five hit points." She began to write down on her papers holding the info on all of her friends character (though a tad unorthodox it was a tad easier on her friends to concentrate on the game.). "I roll to attack!" Dash said as she threw her dice hard landing on '20', "Yeah, that's for messing with my friend!" "Nice Dashie, you landed a critical hit and killed it." Pinkie said, "The entire party earns 100 XP, and twenty gold each." With the talk about the beast being killed sent Fluttershy into a state of shock, "Don't worry Fluttershy, you'll get another chance to convince a monster to not fight; besides you can now try to take the form and use it for yourself." "Really?" The timid mare asked, "I can do that?" "Of course, druids can take on the form of any beast belonging to nature, of course in this version it can only be done if the creature is killed." Pinkie said as she pulled the players handbook from her mane and began reading it, "There's a lot of stuff in this book even I didn't know about." "Well I roll to take the use my magic to take the form of the fallen beast." Fluttershy said as she rolled a '12' which was surprising, "is that good?" Pinkie gave a confirming nod to the pegasus's delight. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The journey became more and more treacherous as the group went deeper and deeper into the woods, the more they traveled the more beasts they encountered. "Should there be a Campsite nearby?" The Ranger asked, "My legs are killing me." "We should camp soon, I need to recharge my powers." The wizard said as her illumination from her staff was dimming . ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ "Your party comes across a small bond fire with a sword sticking in the middle of the ever burning flame, it feels calm and welcoming, as if all the troubles in the world melt away by the second, do you want to rest for the evening?" Pinkie asked making the pit stop seem more and more inviting. "I'd say that would be splendid." Octavia said, "Most of our abilities are diminished." The rest of the group agreed with the decision "Great, and that means potty break!" Pinkie ran off towards the bathroom, giving the others time to stretch and enjoy the leisure time.