A tale of Chaos Magic at BeardBash

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A tale of Chaos Magic at BeardBash

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Last beardbash we had a go at a very silly, completely randomised D&D dungeon crawl. All the players were given identical wizards (they were allowed to pick what spells they were preparing) and sent to explore a huge dungeon we had generated using an online tool. The twist was that the dungeon was in a "high chaos magic area", meaning that all the spells they cast had a chance of surging, creating randomly selected secondary effects. The more potent the spell, the higher the chance of the surge.

Grimmie ran the adventure whilst I generated the random magic and made notes of what happened. I fully intended to flesh out the notes into a more coherent story. On reading the notes now I don't think there is anything I could add to them that would make it any more entertaining than it already is. So here they are in their original, unedited glory:

opened door on grimlocks
melted door lock with acid (room 15)
greased floor
wedgied
fear (run away!)
fireball (summoned yard of crickets)
set grease on fire
ray of frost to put out fire (made em turn to smoke near fire)
acid next door lock off
ghost sound of tiger - made things go "mrrrrh"
opened door (room 14)
glitter through door
ghouls now disco
pnut slaps with magic hands
magic missiles all over
becki magic missiles are biplanes
em magic missile squirrels
Fj summoned owl of god
shada - fireball - smells of ammonia now
all ghouls died
picked up more gold!
go through archway (room 8)
the room is empty :(
pnut remove curse from em. pnuts house (cave) shrinks by 100%
acid splash door to small room leading back on themselves. doh!
acid splash again leading back to first room. cross it to room 21 door
splinters stuck door
look through archway to see corridor south
acid splash the door at the end
they go through to room 33
pnut em and becki are hit by bricks from a trap in the door
the room is empty
left side of the door ages at 5 times the normal rate
there is a chute in the room. the party ignored it
room 30
becki chills a blanket over a chest
beckis pockets seal shut doing a prestidigitate
pnut opens it with magic hands. poison bolts come out
many shinies come out including plate armour and sovereign glue
fj magically opens beckis pockets
goes west to room 29
theres moaning from beyond the room. this confuses the party for a moment
pnut pokes his head through to the next room and sees a massive centipede (in room 28)
its so damn big its stuck in the room
shada burns his way through the massive centipede, but now thinks everyone else is insane
fj opens the door to room 36 and sees five ogres
becki creates 4 mirror images of herself. she now has blood red teeth
pnut launches bolts at ogres. he misses
becki casts lightning bolt at the ogres, crispy frying them but not quite killing them. they all gain the ability to turn ice into diamonds
shada casts rad skulls (magic missiles) - his body is consumed as the material component of the spell. he kills one. at least the smell has gone!
fj casts ray of enfeeblement. the ogres, being angry, now look like they are on fire. one of them is now weak.
em fires ray of frost at ogre, hits him and kills it
an ogre attacks a mirror image and misses
another ogre attacks that same image and hits, making it go poof
the third one attacks becki! it hits! :o it knocks the stuffing out of her.
pnut runs in and hits one with his staff. it falls over dead.
becki makes an ogre vomit a large python before laughing hideously
pnut misses with his stick
becki magic missiles the bejeezus out of the laughing ogre. he laughs to the last
Fj finishes off the last ogre
the party heads off into the next room and sees a bunch of drow.
becki (now being played by shada) fireballs the bastards. Their blood glows like embers, but no one notices somehow. they think it might have been brighter than normal...
pnut thinks he can now turn metal into gold. he cant.
the dungeon just got more chaotic. Everything now surges at least once.
pnut tries to acid a door with no lock. this doesn’t work. he turns blue
fj opens the door. all their potions go stinky.
room 49
in this room is 5 wights
pnut cast fireball and now all the potions will cause a secondary, delusional effect. he also turns orange
toasty wights! not dead though.
shada casts fireball! all the damage is done back to him (90 total!) but hey, the wights are now combustible at room temperature. Em gives shada a kicking for beings stupid and the wights suddenly die with a big footprint on their face. Whilst on fire. What just happened.
the remaining members of the party head south to room 51. Its empty.
they carry on to a room with some graffiti (crimson emerald golden iron golden emerald). god knows why. The GM doesn’t.
em shoots the walls with an ice ray. She spins like a top for 18 seconds.
pnut is still orange.
the party descend to the Dark Vaults of Terror!
the first room is dramatically empty.
The party stumble into a room with a magical pool in the corner. They all take a sip. They all turn into mice forever.

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Post by Grimmie »

That was such a weird game :D Been waiting for a recap for ages, and I think you're right, the notes alone are great.
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Post by Dog Pants »

This should be a game in itself. Or at least a proper campaign. Like a tabletop Magica roguelike.
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:lol: I had forgotten most of that, we will have to do it again sometime.
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I think I had aspirations to hold them online, should be pretty easy to do so.
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Drink the water. EVERYBODY DRINKS THE WATER.


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Everyone: What should we do?
Pnut: Lets all drink the water at the same time.
Me: You all want to drink at the same time?
Everyone: Yeah, come on.
Pnut: What happens then?
Me: Yoooouu... All turn in to mice.
Pnut: For..?
Me: .. Ever.

...

Pnut: Right, time for bed then.
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:lol:
Things like this are the epitome of 5punk.
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Post by Shada »

my reckless use of evocation magic got me killed. twice. the correct way to be a wizard.
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