Level 1 Skeleton: Session 2- The Chaos Sorcerer

Frost-Taker the Chaos Sorcerer

After running down the road for some time, Rufus finally stops, a quizzical look passing over his... eye sockets. Wait! I should probably see where I'm going!" He quickly pulls out the first poster with the overlords details. "Ah! I see! Frost-taker the Chaos Sorcerer. Seems like a push over. And he's located in... The Fortress of Extreme Frustration huh? Well I'm sure this Frost-Taker guy will gladly leave a place like that! Sounds simply awful!" Now feeling a bit more guided, Rufus heads towards the Fortress of Extreme Frustration, which he oddly remembers where its located since he was so familiar with this area in life! Coming to the fortress, Rufus charges in, longsword in hand ready for battle "I'm here with eviction papers! Lets see you out peacefully... Or NOT!"

Fortress of Extreme Frustration: Challenge 1

Challenge 1: A squad of stone soldiers have spotted Rufus and move to intercept him!
DC: 12 HP: 80

Rufus laughs in the stone soldiers face as he gallantly charges into the room. He leaps and bounds off a barrel and lands behind the squad of soldiers to take them off guard. He smashes one of the soldiers in the back with his thickly gloved fist!
Dice Pool -> D20+Daring(D8)+Parkour(D8)+Glove(D6)
Result -> 14; Success Challenge HP 60/80

Seeing the success of his maneuver at confusing the slow stone soldiers, Rufus continues daringly running, jumping, and smashing soldiers in face!
Dice Pool -> D20+Daring(D8)+Parkour(D8)+Glove(D6)
Result -> 27; Success Challenge HP 39/80

With a laugh and a brazen overconfidence, Rufus charges up a set of stairs leading out of the room before turning and body slams a soldier with his breastplate!
Dice Pool -> D20+Daring(D8)+Parkour(D8)+Breastplate(D6)
Result -> 11; Failure 4/5 Bones

Rufus embarrassingly falls flat on his face on the stone floor. He leaps to his face quickly. I meant to do that! You fell for my trap!"

After falling flat on his face, Rufus gathers himself to readdress the fight. Seems you all are a bit more lithe than I gave you credit for! HA!" He studies the remaining soldiers movements carefully
Dice Pool -> D20+Careful(D4)+Research(D4)
Result -> 20; Success Challenge HP: 19/80

HA HA, I've found your weakness! It was my fist the whole time! So I'll just keep smashing!" Rufus charges into the remaining soldiers, brandishing his fist wildly!
Dice Pool -> D20+Daring(D8)+Glove(D6)
Result -> 21; Success! The Stone soldiers fall to the ground in a heap of stones defeated!

End of Challenge: Rufus gains +2 Marrow and finds an Item!
Item roll -> 61; A pouch of herbs

Rufus stumbles over a pouch of herbs that for some reason lays amongst the rubble of the soldiers. Seems you all were fans of the herb huh? Well, I'll be taking these off your hands. I'm sure I can sell these off for a pretty penny back in town!" With that Rufus charges on bravely deeper into the supposedly frustrating forest. Quickly he is beset by more enemies...

Fortress of Extreme Frustration: Challenge 2

Challenge 2: A clockwork serpent emerges out of a hole in the ceiling as Rufus continues deeper into the fortress. It sparks with electricity and dares to challenge Rufus' superior skill!
DC: 16 HP: 60

Rufus thinks quickly, charging forward with his longsword held high. "Lets see if you can shock me with my handy lightning rod! HA!" With a quick summersault, Rufus leaps at the snake to smash it with his shoulder.
Dice Pool -> D20+Daring(D8)+Parkour(D8)+Longsword(D6)
Result -> 11; Failure 3/5 bones

Rufus leaps at the snake, but as soon as he makes contact, he realizes his mistake. The snake was completely electric! As soon as his shoulder made contact, the electricity coursed through his skeletal body!

Being shocked by the snake really woke up Rufus. He eyes the creature and realizes the electricity seems to be coming from the snakes emerald eyes. He quickly leaps forward, using his thick gloves as insulation to climb the creatures back and attempt to pry out its eye!
Dice Pool -> D20+Daring(D8)+Parkour(D8)+Gloves(D6)
Result -> 15; Success Challenge HP: 45/60

Rufus rips the first emerald eye out of the mechanical snake. Hanging on for dear life as the snake writhes and bucks underneath him, he smashes the creature's head with his gloved fist!
Dice Pool -> D20+Daring(D8)+Fighting(D4)+Gloves(D6)
Result -> 24; Success Challenge 21/60

With the electricity greatly weakened, Rufus slams his longsword down on the mechanical snakes head and then slides down its back, dragging his longsword down the creature as he goes!
Dice Pool -> D20+Daring(D8)+Parkour(D8)+Longsword(D6)
Result -> 17; Success Challenge 4/60

With a final heroic charge and a leap, Rufus brandishes his gloved fist of smashing and beating! The clockwork gears of the snake were grinding and hissing as the snake barely could keep itself up. Certainly this would be it!
Dice Pool -> D20+Daring(D8)+Parkour(D8)+Gloves(D6)
Result -> 18; Success The clockwork snake falls to Rufus!

End of Challenge: Rufus gains +2 Marrow and finds an Item!
Item roll -> 31; Modeling Clay

After rummaging around the room, Rufus finds a lump of modeling clay. "They must be using this clay to make models of these clockwork abominations. Can't let them do that anymore. I'll be taking this with me!" And thus, with his newly acquired clay and herbs, Rufus continues deeper into the Fortress of Extreme Frustration!

Fortress of Extreme Frustration: Challenge 3

Challenge 3: Rufus sees a large chest sitting in the middle of the room. Thinking he's found a bout of luck, Rufus quickly sets about trying to open it up only to find that the chest is a Mimic! The animated chest comes alive and tries to bite down on Rufus's bony arm!
DC: 14 HP: 60

Before the mimic can bite off his arm, Rufus tries to leap over the chest, slamming his gloved fist down on the lid of the mimic to slam it down on the mimics slathering tongue!
Dice Pool -> D20+Daring(D8)+Parkour(D8)+Gloves(D6)
Result -> 15; Success Challenge HP: 45/60

With the mimic reeling backwards as rufus forces its lid to slam down on its own tongue, Rufus doesn't let up! He quickly pulls his bottle of oil from his belt, leaping towards the mimic. "Lets see how you like the taste of this!" He pulls the lid open and pours some of the viscous liquid into the creatures open maw.
Dice Pool -> D20+Daring(D8)+Thievery(D4)+Oil(D6)
Result -> 23; Success Challenge HP 22/60

The mimic is left sputtering and gagging on the oil that Rufus force fed it. With a final brave leap, with gusto this time, Rufus attempts to body slam the mimic with his breastplate. "I'll be leaving you in splinters my boy! HAHA!"
Dice Pool -> D20+Daring(D8)+Parkour(D8)+Breastplate(D6)
Result -> 24; Success The mimic is defeated!

End of Challenge: Rufus gains +2 Marrow and finds 3 Items within the mimics remains!
Item roll -> 64; Pocket sand 90; Hatchet 44; Reinforced club

With the splinters of the mimic splayed out underneath him, Rufus stands to his bony skeletal feet. He spots some things of interest that spill out of the innards of the busted mimic. "Ah, such a wonderful windfall of luck! Pocket sand? Certainly will be useful. And a hatchet and a club!? With my longsword I've acquired the holy trinity of weapons! Wonderful day, wonderful day!" And with that, he charges forward to hopefully find the overlord of this frustrating fortress soon!

Fortress of Extreme Frustration: Challenge 4

In the next room over, Rufus discovers a magical portal! "Ah, this must be back to Midland. I might as well take a quick break. I'm sure that silly Frost-Taker is in the next room. He doesn't know what's coming!"

With that Rufus takes a jaunt through the portal and back to town! While there he does the following things:

  1. Sell items: Rufus will sell his jar of oil, modeling clay, hatchet, and herbs to receive 1 additional marrow. He has a total of 9 Marrow
  2. Level up: Rufus will level up twice! He spends 5 marrow to increase his total bones. He spends 4 marrow to increase his fighting skill from a D4 to D6!
  3. Rest: Reset his bones to 6/6

Returning through the portal, Rufus finds himself back in the fortress. He quickly advances through to a large chamber, where a figure in swirling heavy robes stands waiting. "It seems you've finally found me Rufus. But alas, I will end you! I will grind your bones to dust!" Frost-Taker stands ready to challenge Rufus! Rufus obviously is confused that this guy knows his name... But he charges forward into the fight!

Fortress of Extreme Frustration: Frost-Taker the Chaos Sorcerer

DC: 14 HP: 100
Overlord Power: Chaos Magician -> Whenever you make a check, you must Randomly determine which approach and skill to include in the dice pool!


GM Note:
Well the chaos magician power is going to make this fight tough since Rufus is mostly good at 2 things and 2 things only: Being Daring and Jumping around like a mad man. Or mad Skeleton I suppose! For this challenge, I will list the dice pool that I create from the random selection of approach and skill first, then add any items that I think could be useful, before narrating what Rufus' actions look like. Lets see how our Skeletal swashbuckler does!

Dice Pool -> D20+Daring(D8)+Thievery(D4)+Pocket Sand(D6)
Rufus casually approaches closer to the overlord, as he continues to monologue in that oh so cliche way. When he is finally close enough, Rufus casually reaches into his pocket and then quickly flings pocket sand in the overlords eyes! "HAHA Take that you fool!" He proclaims
Result -> 18; Success Overlord HP: 82/100

Dice Pool -> D20+Clever(D4)+Research(D4)
As the overlord reels back from the sand flung into his eyes, the chaos magic surrounding the overlord forces Rufus' hand. He backs off to study his target, hoping to get an idea of the overlords weaknesses
Result -> 14; Success Overlord HP: 68/100

Dice Pool -> D20+Careful(D4)+Talking(D4)+Coins(D6)
With his newly acquired information, Rufus decides there might be a chance to convince the overlord to give up. "Say friend, you really don't want to be here right? Like, if you were.... So incentivized... You would give up and leave yes? There's no reason for us to fight here. I can just leave this sack of coins here, and we just go our separate ways, yeah?" Rufus slyly hefts the sack of coins, offering it towards the overlord.
Result -> 9; Failure! 5/6 Bones

Dice Pool -> D20+Daring(D8)+Fighting(D6)+Longsword(D6)
The overlord snarls, after finally getting the sand cleared from his eyes. "What!?! You must be joking you fool. I will destroy you and your silly village and grind all of your bones to dust! Good luck coming back from that!" Rufus shrugs his bony shoulders. "Very well. Suit yourself. Don't say I didin't warn you!" With that Rufus rushes back into the fray, hefting his longsword and slashing down on the still off guard Chaos sorcerer!
Result -> 22; Success Overlord HP 46/100

Dice Pool -> D20+Daring(D8)+Talking(D8)+Coins(D6)
Rufus lands a hefty blow on the overlord. In celebration, he dangles his sack of coins out in front of his foe. "This all could have been yours you fool! HA! Now it will be mine AND I'll be taking you down once and for all!" Rufus laughs as he swings the coin sack at the overlords face!
Result -> 18; Success Overlord HP 28/100

Dice Pool -> D20+Daring(D8)+Parkour(D6)+Gloves(D6)
With a successful smack to the face with his hefty sack, Rufus presses the attack further. Bounding up in the air, Rufus brings a haymaker of a punch down on the overlord with his gloved fist!
Result -> 26; Success Overlord HP 2/100

Dice Pool -> D20+Daring(D8)+Fighting(D6)+Club(D6)
The overlord staggers back, suddenly fear crosses his face. "Wait! Wait! We can still talk, I think I might take you up on that offer after all! Please, lets not rush this here and now!" But Rufus ignores the desperate please. He pulls out his club and smacks the overlord with a final heaving blow!
Result -> 23; Success -> Frost-Taker the Chaos Sorcerer is Defeated!

End of Overlord Rewards: Rufus gains +4 Marrow and finds an Item and an Artifact!
Item roll -> 30; Spiked Flail
Artifact roll -> 1; The Sword of Many Cuts (D8)! When this artifact is included in a dice pool, double the result of the Fighting roll

After taking his spoils, Rufus smirks a bony mostly tooth, no cheek, cheeky little smirk. "Well that's one down. And now for your fellows! I'm on may way to save the world! HA HA!" Rufus laughs and cackles his way out of the Fortress of Extreme Frustration, feeling it must've been more frustration for his enemies than him. "A quick stop into town, and then back on the road to my next challenge!'

One overlord down and three more to go before Rufus can challenge the Great King and save the world! With a new artifact packed away and some useful items added to his arsenal, Rufus gets on to his next challenge!

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