Dungeons and Dragons with the Doodlies

[Shello]

I didn't really keep track of the number of hours of self care last week.  I did some, but I could have done more.  I'll say 2 hours seems like a safe bet.  

 

Shello is abruptly awakened from her Hollidazzle dreams and it takes a minute to clear her head and figure out what has happened.  She does have the sense to grab her hammer and some slippers before running to see what needs to be done. 

 

My fuzzy slippers of choice:

[The Most Loathed]

5 minutes ago, LadyShello said:

I didn't really keep track of the number of hours of self care last week.  I did some, but I could have done more.  I'll say 2 hours seems like a safe bet.  

 

My fuzzy slippers of choice:

 a safe bet is totally fine.

I love your slippers.

[Terah]

1 hour ago, The Most Loathed said:

Four hours gets you either two weapons total or a weapon and armor.

Well, I'm glad I didn't feel so good last week . Can I choose the weapon and the armor, or do you pick them for us?

 

1 hour ago, The Most Loathed said:

You have 72 hours to do stuff and respond. It is currently 7:30 AM Central, 1:30 PM GMT. I'll post the next major update about this time Thursday. 

• Self-care stuff helps to heal the person attached to the legs you see sticking out of the sleigh
• Strength training help right the sleigh
• Cardio will let you run inside and grab more stuff or try and track down the animals who left the scene
• Anything that requires learning or detailed attention will give you more info about the sleigh, the animals or the person. Let me know what you want to know more about

Let me know in 1/2 hours how much of the above you do.

Feel free to ask additional questions about the scene before you or talk to you friends. 

As hours start to accumulate I may give you additional details or I'll drop them all with the next update.

Can we use our abilities for this? For example: I have the tracking ability (level 6), can I use that to track the animals in addition to (or in stead of) the cardio? And can we use our healing ability in addition (or in stead of) the self care stuff?

[The Most Loathed]

19 minutes ago, Terah said:

Well, I'm glad I didn't feel so good last week . Can I choose the weapon and the armor, or do you pick them for us?

 

Can we use our abilities for this? For example: I have the tracking ability (level 6), can I use that to track the animals in addition to (or in stead of) the cardio? And can we use our healing ability in addition (or in stead of) the self care stuff?

You get to pick what you grab. I'm just putting a cap on how many things, since everyone is sleepy and rushing outside.

 

Yes, by all means, if you have skills, let them shine.

[Oramac]

As Oramac is shaken awake by the tremendous noise, he realizes that it isn't just a Holidazzle Tree falling, or ornaments breaking.  Something hit us!  Bounding out of his bed and waking his trusty pet, Max, he quickly dons his leather armor and the crappy old bow he's been using for more than a decade.  Worn and beginning to splinter, he's not sure how much longer it'll last, but it's what he has.  Deciding his boots would take too much time, he quickly puts on a pair of fuzzy, but very warm, bearskin slippers.

 

 

Dashing outside, he sees a horrible sight.  SW/MRS has overturned!  It seems he may have been turned about in the snow and hit the castle.  Speaking to Max, Oramac commands his trusty companion to keep guard around the area as Oramac decides what to do next......

 

 

Between D&D and WoW, I easily hit 4 hours of self-care, so I grabbed armor and a crappy weapon, for story purposes.  

This coming week, I should hit one gym session (tonight) and 2 D&D sessions (Tuesday/Wednesday).  Depending on when the next post goes up, I'll have a second gym session as well (Thursday evening).

 

[DarK_RaideR]

DarK_RaideR hops out of bed and dashes out to investigate. The chilling cold reminds him that he's still wearing his PJs, held around his waist by a wide fluffy belt. At least he's still wearing something to keep his feet warm.

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Self care last week was a joke, piles and piles of stress, surprises, deadlines and work stress. I'm lucky my character didn't run out wearing only wrestling trunks.

[Sylvaa]

A horrible crash ground Sylvaa's dreams of sugarplums to a halt. Startled, she jumped up ready to karate chop the intruders, only to hear the sounds of her friends running outside. Rushing to catch up, Sylvaa ran out of her room in only her jammies and trusty slippers.

 

 

(Monday mornings EST are hard for me to respond while I am en route to the office - it'll always be a little delayed!). I am so bad at self care, but it fits as I don't have a weapon or armor from our previous adventures. 

[Lara]

"What's all this noise? Hell is empty and all the devils are here?"

zenLara quickly ties her dressing gown and runs outside with her hollidazzlesy slippers.

[Terah]

Terah grabs her backpack that sits next to her bed, ready for adventure. Because you never know what might happen in the Doodlie castle. On her way down she grabs some chainmail and a bow and arrows.

Spoiler

There is no time to change footwear, but these fuzzy slippers are so comfortable, even if she would had the time she wouldn't have changed them.

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Once outside Terah goes after the animals who fled the scene. She takes out her lute to lure the animals back. 

 

I want to use my tracking ability here (level 6) and my ability to play the lute (level 7).

There is also some cardio planned in the near future. I'll get back to you on that.

[Terah]

3 hours ago, LadyShello said:

I didn't really keep track of the number of hours of self care last week.  I did some, but I could have done more.  I'll say 2 hours seems like a safe bet.  

 

Shello is abruptly awakened from her Hollidazzle dreams and it takes a minute to clear her head and figure out what has happened.  She does have the sense to grab her hammer and some slippers before running to see what needs to be done. 

 

My fuzzy slippers of choice:

I thought you would want these ones: 

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[Shello]

1 hour ago, Terah said:

I thought you would want these ones: 

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Had I seen these I would have grabbed them instead.  

[Terah]

one hour of cardio done

[NemoG]

Némo wakes up 'what the.... seems the neighbors are having fun.... no wait  ... that was differnt"

She runs out, wappons drawn (2 daggers) 

 

 

Finally outside she realises that her assumption of the couple next door made her late and most other doddle's are already on sight...

She's about to laught at the group for their funny footwear but just before the acctually does she realises she's also still wearing her funny slipper.

 

 

In that case, she walks over the DR "Aswome unicorns you got there!"

and as usual she's sits back and analyses the situation without much more comment. 

 

[Sylvaa]

4 hours ago, NemoG said:

 

New goal: get in shape to wear this costume - this is amazing!

 

Rushing out to help everyone sounded great, but the lack of sleep hit Sylvaa hard after just a short amount of work. She curled up in a tree and meant to close her eyes for "just a few minutes", but next thing she knew, the day had dawned.

 

I got in half an hour of strength training last night. Although, if going to bed early counts as self care, I went to be about an hour earlier than I normally do!

 

[Oramac]

Taking stock of the situation, Oramac rushes to the overturned sleigh, trying to lift it off the victim and set it right.  Hoping against hope that someone else might be able to help him.  For some reason he didn't sleep well, and wasn't feeling entirely up to the task of lifting this sleigh.

 

I went to the gym and did a rather unsatisfying strength workout last night. 

[Terah]

An other hour of cardio done. That's two in total for me until now

[Sylvaa]

Concerned about the time remaining to help the still struggling potential SW/MRS out of their predicament, Sylvaa worked extra hard to find out what was going on. She started by moving some of the larger packages and debris from around the sleigh. After sweating for a while trying to make a dent in .... whatever that really was that crashed into the castle, she decided to change tactics and tried to put some effort into locating whatever potential animals had been driving said sleigh. Maybe some information about what kind of crazy animals would crash into a castle would help?

 

Yay! A full day for me! 

30 minutes strength

30 minutes cardio

60 minutes of learning 

 

[Terah]

I forgot the self care! 3 Hours for me until now. 

[DarK_RaideR]

1 hour of Strength training and 1 hour of Cardio for me. If I recall the rules correctly, these two are done as part of a challenge and don't count towards improbing our characters' attributes, correct?

[Terah]

1 minute ago, DarK_RaideR said:

1 hour of Strength training and 1 hour of Cardio for me. If I recall the rules correctly, these two are done as part of a challenge and don't count towards improbing our characters' attributes, correct?

You are correct

[Lara]

2 hours of self-care (damn cold!) and half an hour of learning. If meditation counts as "detailed attention" then another half an hour.

 

zenLara approaches the sleigh and tries to get the person under it feel more comfortable and cozy by putting some warm blankets between the person and the snow.

Is this the actual Strange Being in Red Suits? Why did the sleigh fall? Was it some sort of attack?

[Oramac]

3 hours of Self-Care in the books with D&D last night.  My gym time was part of my challenge though, so no stats there. 

[The Most Loathed]

You've still got about 24 hours before I really advance the story but I wanted to give you a little update and make sure I have everyone's work accounted for:

DarkRaider - light up unicorn slippers,  1 hour of Strength training and 1 hour of Cardio for me

Deftona

LadyShello - Koala slippers, still gets to pick an item that she grabbed

NemoG - daggers and bunny slippers

Oramac - Ugg boots, armor and old bow, 1 hour strength, 3 hours of self care

Sylvaa - monster slippers, no gear, 1/2 hour strength, hour early to bed, 30 minutes strength, 30 minutes cardio, 60 minutes of learning 

Terah - backpack, chain armor, bows and arrows, spider man slippers, tracking skill, 3 Hours for me until now. An other hour of cardio done. That's two in total for me until now

ZenLara - jingle slippers which I doubly love because she's an assassin, 2 hours of self-care

 

Strength:3 hours

Cardio: 4.5 hours

Self Care: 9 hours

Learning: 1 hour

 

As the Doodlies pile out of the castle to see the wrecked sleigh some fly into action while others seem to take a bit longer the clear the sleep from their eyes. DarkRaider, Ormac and Sylvaa grab one edge of the sleigh and begin to pull with their combined strength.Their legs tremble and arms shake as the sleigh breaks contact with the ground. It seems to hover with one edge on the ground and one edge being held a foot off the ground.

Terah spots tracks on the ground that seems to be the beasts of burden that pulled this sleigh leading away. She dashes into the woods noiselessly. Within a couple minutes, while the group strains with the sleigh, she returns leading two reindeer by halters they are wearing. One seems to be following her of their own free will. It's an amazing display of animal handling.

ZenLara and Oramac begin to tend to the couple reindeer that are near the sleigh. Some seems genuinely injured while others are simply dazed. They seem to have a magical touch when it comes to getting the animals well enough to be calmly lead back to the sleigh.

 

Only Sylvaa notices:

The red winking light from the interior of the sleigh seems to be increasing the pace at which it is winking. You can't quite see it since the sleigh is still flipped.

 

I'll update again tomorrow and we'll move into scene two.

[The Most Loathed]

I forgot to mention, Terah, please choose another thing to grab from your room. I'll figure out a narrative justification later (or we'll just ignore the justification and you just get to have it). You could grab something for someone other than yourself as well,. It's up to you.

[Terah]

7 minutes ago, The Most Loathed said:

I forgot to mention, Terah, please choose another thing to grab from your room. I'll figure out a narrative justification later (or we'll just ignore the justification and you just get to have it). You could grab something for someone other than yourself as well,. It's up to you.

I just wanted my fully packed backpack from my room with all the stuff I gathered during the previous adventures (see character sheet) if that is okay?