Jillian:
Here is a picture of the stein I painted at my cousin’s ceramic studio. Its my Dungeon Master Mug, and I use it when we play D&D. (Go ahead, feel the envy, its only natural.) ;)
A map of the kingdoms our Acolyte Campaign is based in. Right now we have entered the Kingdom of Bergheim (Nate’s PC Ender’s birthplace.)
(Copic Markers and Sepia Ink by Jillian Berg)
Jillian:
Okay, so I am running a bit behind on the M.A.C. recaps, so sue me! lol but Nate did one for the last session, so I just did a drawing to go along with that adventure. (Featuring me of course, and Vayle’s new outfit…. with pasties!) ;) lol
(Vayle doesn’t like Bullywugs, they are all slimy and taste like mud.)
Nate:
Mwahahahaha! Best idea ever! Instead of a recap for mac, since that is Jillian’s job, I’m going to do teasers! What horrendous fates await our villains? Some gargantuan monstrosity in the arena? Games of skill? Fire? Any of the panes could be true… Or none of them! That’s why its a teaser, you never know! You just have to show up to find out! 9:30pm at Jeremy’s house! Be there! OR GET NOTHING!
Nate:
Here you thought you wouldn’t see a terribly drawn recap since the recap master was DM. WELL SHAME ON YOU! After all, who better to tease and make fun of the DM than the DM? I know the subject material well! And I was left alone at the desk and bored last night… I’ll leave the actual recap to Jillian, just wanted to have some fun with paint! Enjoy!
Jillian and Johnny, back in 2009 when Jeremy was the Dungeon Master and before Nate began playing with us.
Nate:
Who is that shady, handsome robed, drow over there!? Is that the one and only Rild? Master of destruction, debauchery, deviance and desertion…? Where has this striker been all my life? Chaos bolts, acid splashes and pillars of flame, this guy is a walking techno concert! It’s good to have him back in the crew! Although we might have to change our name if we keep him around… Hard to be The Acolytes when you have a shady drow running around blasting things with evil shadowy powers! I’m just happy we got to play this week! After skipping 4 weeks it was like a big release of DnD glory all over my face… We even had Papa Pete’s pizza, I wonder if we wear some t-shirts with their business name on them if they would sponsor our DnD night… “This 20 minute Jeremy the rule Nazi break is brought to you by Papa Pete’s, fueling nerds since 1974!” I don’t think I could write this recap without mentioning the most nerdy thing I have ever done in my entire life. We encountered some flying creatures in our adventure and were trying to figure out the distance from our ranged attackers to the flying creatures. That is when it happened, we used the Pythagorean theory to triangulate the distance! Pretty nerdy, we are already playing dnd and a discussion breaks out about obscure math principles like 3,4,5 triangles… I might never be allowed at another sporting event for the rest of my life =S. We had another first as well, WE STAYED UP PAST MIDNIGHT! But thanks to Jeremy and Jill and their ADD. we only ended up doing 2 encounters and 2 skill checks. Gee, what’s next, a whole day marathon of DnD where we gain one level? You two need to focus and get your priorities straight! No more whining about unimportant things like your futures… GET TO THOSE WHEN THEY COME! DND TIME IS NOW, FUTURE TIME IS LATER! Anyways… welcome back Johnny!
Jillian:
Yay Johnny is back! Hopefully to stay!
Nate:
Been awhile since we played some dnd. Thought I would show what the DnD characters were up to while we had real life stuff going on. Surprisingly similar… Anyways, I’m sad I won’t be playing my dark character until the summer. Sometimes I need to relieve a little stress (mostly caused by you two…) and running around in the shadows murdering my enemies is a good way to do that! I’m pretty sure we aren’t playing next week either, that makes it 4 weeks in a row 0_0. What did Jeremy say? One turn is approximately 5 seconds? It takes about a minute for us to do a turn in real life, so that means for every second that passes in the dnd world 12 seconds passes in ours. Its boring at work right now so I did the math on 4 weeks. 4 weeks = 28 days28 days = 672 hours672 hours = 40320 minutes40320 minutes = 2419200 secondsif 12 seconds pass in the real world for every dnd world second2419200 / 12 = 201600 dnd seconds201600 dnd seconds = 3360 dnd minutes3360 dnd minutes = 56 dnd hours56 dnd hours = 2.3 dnd days. So really, our characters sat around doing nothing for about 2.3 days. Which isn’t too bad, almost like we gave them the weekend off =). I like how Jeremy is all like, we got high level guys, I wanna play em and make it to level 11 blah blah blah etc. And then we don’t play for 4 weeks! I need to get a cheat bot to train my character while I’m away =S.Jillian:All that math makes you seem like a huge geek… just saying…
Nate:
Hey! We didn’t play DnD… There’s a big surprise! Now we don’t get to play for another two weeks… =(. I fully expect you guys to have some sweet-awesome campaigns written by the next time we play! Here’s how the recap goes for this week… Hey guys! What’s up!? Ready to play? OoOoOoOo TV! Yawn… snore… Well sweet, thanks for the pizza… THAT I BOUGHT! Anyways, enough violent ranting. I switched two Sundays for two Wednesdays with Racheline so I could go to my Dad’s last two football games this year… so we are totally boned for DnD for a couple weeks, at least this way we spare my heart the ever disappointing, “Sorry, X came up and I am preoccupied til Y, so I offer you Z in apology for my absence…” Where X is some sort of lame ass activity, Y is forever and Z is nothing! Man these recaps sure are short… WHEN THERES NOTHING TO WRITE ABOUT! Have a nice day =D!
Jeremy:
Lol that’s awesome… I want some sequined greaves…
Jillian:
I want a sequined chest plate, I’ll dazzle the bad guys into submission!
Nate:
Yeah Yeah! I know! We were fighting spiders… Well sorry whiners! Drawing spiders is beyond my capabilities! Drawing Goaty almost killed me! Plus spiders can’t talk and that was a key component of the comedy of that strip… And I know we didn’t have a name for him so I chose Goaty! Creative, I know! I can’t believe we haven’t utilized Goaty until now! In one fight he did more damage than Ora and Ender did combined all night! He makes a pretty good mascot for our crew too! He isn’t normally a ferocious fighter; he’s a calm non-aggressive peaceful animal most of the time. But when evil threatens the world he leaps into action to defend the innocent! Just like the Acolytes! Now that we have 4 members, one of whom is summoned, we need an ultimate move that the 4 of us combine to do! We will always wait until we are nearly defeated then summon Goaty, and then get defeated some more, then pull out this desperation move to win just in the nick of time. Even though we could have used the ability to start the fight if we wanted to… For instance, I could imbue Varas with holy thunder, Ora could cast a rune on Goaty that changes him into some crazy armor or maybe a giant robot. Then Varas and Goaty become one and attack with the power we imbued them with to win! Anyways, I’m rambling on tangents. This week we fought a landshark! It was most likely the biggest and most ferocious beast we have ever defeated! It was no sweat! But Jill had anticipated that and made our next fight our toughest yet! We fought a small army of large spiders! It pushed us to the edge! Daily abilities weren’t enough! We needed… GOATY THE WONDER GOAT! Finally using the idol, and the funny poem =), Varas summoned his mighty goat! Goaty did some major work and helped us rescue some major babes! For that he will always have a soft spot in my heart! We enter the enemy’s stronghold next week! Finally after weeks of whores, goats, spiders and gnomes we have arrived at our first goal! Let’s hope there’s an epic battle and even epicer loot awaiting us next week!
Jeremy:
… When did Varas get like 3.5 feet tall?
Nate:
I know, I messed that up lol, pretend hes on his knees…
Jillian:
Goaty looks like a coffe table with a face…
Nate:
Well as promised, a bashing for Jeremy for causing us to miss DnD night. I swear you two! Get your priorities straight! And by straight I mean in line with mine! Well sounds like more acolytes next week. Get ready for ticks, stds and ugly prostitutes…
Jillian: We never contracted any STDs…
(Nate)
Oh noes! Look out! It’s the no DnD this week recap! Just when you thought it was safe to check your e-mail again… POW surprise recap! So we didn’t play this week because our vampire was watching the finale of true blood. Wonder why she decided to play a vampire… My next character, a Halfling football player… What’s the point of watching vampires on tv when you can be one on paper? Anyways, back to the Acolytes next week. Sigh, being a good guy is sooooo boring sometimes.
(Jillian)
So, we started our M.A.C campaign (Morally Ambiguous Characters) and Jeremy, being the lover of mystery had my character Vayle and Nate’s character Kaze (short for something Japanese) instructed to investigate a strange assurance in the wilderness. The only thing was that Vayle and Kaze did not know that we were both on the same mission.
So, here we have a comic of how Vayle met Kaze. The punch line is that Kaze’s “shroud of darkness” power is a burst and covers three squares. When we were playing and he invoked his shroud, I laughed and pointed out that hiding in a square of darkness in the middle of the day was not the best way to hide from me.
(Jillian)
So Nate has always wanted to play an assassin, and they way he has been playing his Paladin lately has indicated that he really, really, wants us to play evil characters. Jeremy agreed to DM the Morally Ambiguous Campaign (M.A.C) and we set off designing our characters. This is a concept sketch of Vayle, my Damphyr (half vampire half elf) Ranger.
