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Update #56: Hordes of the Underdark, part I - Nice Place You've Got Here
Not that I am going to miss this place, but I have a feeling I am only falling into deeper shit by descending down there.
Well, you can always stay here forever, fins a nice-fish girl. Make sweet, sweet fish-love to her and...
Alright, alright!
Down the rabbit hole we go.
Not another one of these.
'I am cliched. I will keep spewing bullshit.'
'We did what you wanted, but we're not friends, mmkay?'
'Yeah, whatever.'
Oh, these guys are fucked.
'Can I kill them? Can I? Can I? Oh, pleasepleaseplease, let me kill them!'
Told you they are fucked.
'Also, I want to suck out their souls, slurp, slurp, slurp.'
And suddenly, Irenicus is, like, 'oh shit'.
Nice reflexes, though.
If this was an anime, Irenicus would be sporting a huge embarrassment tear on his head now.
tl;dr: OMG, Irenicus allied himself with the drow!
My favourite chapter by far, bros.
Hostile environment with very few friendly characters + mysteries and unknown on every step + infiltration plot = I love it THIS MUCH
I'm just glad that I'm done with fish people.
What. The. Fuck.
Oh yeah, Kuo-Toa. They are fish people of the Underdark. Didn't you know about them?
At least it didn't talk.
We are close to two level-ups. One of them should happen in a moment, actually.
I have never used Set Traps and Detect Illusion before. While they are used much less often than the rest of thief's skills, they do kick ass in the right situation (even if Detect Illusion is quite not as good as True Sight).
I'm considering taking a point in spears, just to put Impaler to some use. Too many cool weapons!
I am also looking forward to toying with machine of Lum the Mad, because I still regret not making The Codex a half-elf (which would mean his physical stats would be a considerably better 19/19/19 now).
Carsomyr's +50% magic resistance is a real game-changer.
The suicidal Kuo-Toa was our 1500th kill. Nice coincidence.
You can't take two steps without running into something hostile here.
Seeing how nearby that kuotoa and mindflayer were, I'm afraid I might have interrupted a date, or something.
All the better that you killed them, then. Such a relationship could have spawned Chtulhu or something even worse.
Funnily enough I was distracted afk when we got this level up, so I forgot all about it until later.
This must be these 'underground dwarves' from Underdark, which you've mentioned.
Actually, these are svirfnebli...
Do I even want to know?
Underground gnomes.
Uh-huh.
Did you just insult me in your undergnome speak?
I can see that underground gnomes are known for their uncanny sense of humour.
Well, at least I know where the plot train is railroading me next.
Are you telling me that one does not simply walk into... drow city?
This is guy true neutral like Switzerland.
How do you know about Switzerland?
Uhm... Wikipedia?
Forget I asked.
I can kind of escape death, although it usually still hurts a lot.
*quest hint* *quest hint*
tl;dr: OMG, Irenicus allied himself with the drow
Oh wait, we already knew that, in a meta sort of way.
Don't we, and specifically you, already know everything, in a meta sort of way?
Update #57: Hordes of the Underdark, part II - Everything Trying To Kill You
Let's start with executing the level-up, which was available for a while now.
Soon I will be able to sneak around in full plate armor!
It would not hurt.
Easy pick.
After that we move on, only to encounter a talking fish.
Nooooooo!
It goes hostile a moment later.
Thank goodness!
The encounters ends up as an archery duel. The Codex wins hands down.
But of course fish come in shoals.
This monitor now gets no signal. Ha!
Melf's acid arrow? You son of a bitch!
I accidentally clicked down the right panel (and have not even noticed), so you are not able to see how close to death our hero is at this point. Pretty close.
And I am considerably closer to death now.
But not dead yet!
For some reason our spell failed. The Kuo-Toa were not slowed down at all.
Shiiiit.
Sahuagin vs. Kuo-Toa, which are worse and why? Discuss!
Death Count: 223
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I wouldn't really mind if I could fight after healing myself first for once.
Stop whining.
Fuck, fuck, fuck! Go away, I'm regenerating!
I said GO AWAY!
Nooooo! I don't want to go there yet!
There, invisibility, happy now?
I will be happy when I finally have the chance to shove this staff up your arse!
Shoot the fireball-lightning, will you?
This is always great to see.
No-no-no-no-nonono!
I don't think slow works on them at all, to be honest.
Thanks for the fucking tip!
Or invisibility, for that matter.
Fuuuuuuuck!
I'm not dying to these fuckers. I will drown myself in healing potions first!
We have, um, tactically retreated back to the (fake?) svirfnebli market.
CHOKE ON THIS!
DROWN IN BLOOD!
I AM BECOME DEATH!
Up for a one-on-one challenge?
Not so tough without your bodyguards, huh?
Oh, what the fuck now?
We actually went the other way to give The Codex a little break and allow him to regenerate. Ironic.
I never liked fighting these shit-eaters.
Fuck me, this is a whole mushroom samba.
Stay away!
Who turned over the yellow submarine?
Fight, damn it, fight!
Live long and prosper!
Yes!
No!
And it was so close.
Death Count: 224
Load.
I hate mushrooms.
You are not alone.
Seriously, we can't wait until I get healed? Or maybe use a couple of the FIFTY potions I am carrying with me?
Less complaining, more shooting.
Redcap is down!
Who's the king now?
At least the colonies don't move.
Bring it on, bitches!
Fuuuuuckyeah!
How many of these things are here?
This is getting tedious.
Luckily, I think we are quite done.
Our hero, freshly regenerated, approaches the Bridge of Fishy Death.
Oh, did I break your concentration?
Moving on, we encounter a DROW AMBUSH.
omg
As ambushes go, this one is pretty effective. Or it would be, if I wasn't a badass superhero.
DROWSPLOSION!
Protection from magical weapons gives us enough edge to take out the most dangerous melee combatants before they can hurt The Codex.
We need to use a mirror image to win, but it is still a pretty good performance.
And poets shall sing the songs of your beauty. I think I'm in love.
AC0 armour that does not hinder spellcasting? Yeah, we might find a use for it.
And of course the only source of light in the whole Underdark will be plot-related.
Hey, yet another portal!
Fire in the hole!
I wanted to make The Codex all but immune to the fire elementals' hits, bit it turned out they deal standard physical damage, so we went with -13 AC instead.
It turned out to be quite enough.
And that was the last one. Or at least the last brave enough to leave the portal.
A few moments later, our hero encounters a bizarre contraption:
I wonder what will happen if I do this...
Uh, okay? Is that good?
Some people...
Yeah, whatever.
Meh, weak.
The idea of profiting from releasing these people seems a little bit far-fetched.
So far, this is worse than one time when Geralt the witcher hunted down a random monster and tried to get rid of its corpse for some money.
The difference between Geralt and you is that he managed to score with a rogue princess shortly afterwards.
And then he killed her.
This looks to me like a clean-up job.
Fuck, I hate this spell!
This is some heavy-duty magic, but only Symbol, Stun concerns us.
It all happened so fast!
I see you!
The Codex is badass enough to not even notice that he's on fire. Hardcore.
If I remember correctly, we need to have some kind of healing capability to optimally resolve one of the last two 'lost souls'.
Well, I left my paladin's bracers in my other pants, or rather in Athkatla, and my divine cure light wounds ability was stolen.
Maybe we can buy something soon-ish. We shall wait for now.
Someone not trying to kill me on sight. That's new.
Make up your mind.
Yeah, yeah, whatever.
Underground gnome villages are not heavily populated, it seems.
But they do keep high-level spell scrolls in random crates.
Seriously.
They have an awful lot of beds here for so few people.
tl;dr: We got hired to kill some 'beast' that came from down under because the dwarves svirfnebli dug too deep.
A balrog? Oh, I hope it is!
As a reward we shall receive the jewel of plot light that allows to enter magically dark caves.
Called it.
Is it heaven?
More like hell. So much searching and NOTHING of value.
At least I won't waste much time here, seeing as the total population of the village is three.
Maybe the rest is hiding in panic rooms? it would be reasonable, seeing who is visiting.
I'm guessing he's the only other guy I can talk to?
Yeah, you do suck.
Well, I did not do it for the warm fuzzy feeling inside, if you know what I mean.
Nice!
Well, I have better ones, and I'm not even using them at the moment.
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Next time: The Codex will face a huge, winged monster.
Amusingly, the guy tells you to fuck off if you save his son while your party looks like dark elves and try to claim your reward only after you got your real appearance back. Teaches you to think ahead !
The Underdark really is a pretty cool place, all in all.
If you release that Imprisoned mage that wants you to help him with the elemental portals and do his quests. iirc one of his reward items is Abi Dalzim's HW scroll.
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