HYPERBOREA » Hyperborea Trivia

capitalbill · 5/04/2015 7:15 am

You walked in from the illimitable Black Gulf onto the terra firma of Sharath. Not sure why you swam to Scythium, I'm sure a passing Ixian galley would have been happy to pick you up and give you a ride.

Handy Haversack · 5/04/2015 7:22 am

You'd think so, right? Ixian jerks!

You're up, Bill!

capitalbill · 5/05/2015 8:20 am

I present as a twenty-foot-long, five-foot-diameter, segmented worm, with a round maw lined with three rows of fangs, and a 3-foot long tail stinger. I am a leprous beast, pale white in colour, and lined with pale blue ridges. I am said to be the spawn of Yikkorth, who is held to have impregnated the great glaciers of Hyperborea with my eggs.

What am I?

Handy Haversack · 5/05/2015 8:27 am

capitalbill wrote:
I present as a twenty-foot-long, five-foot-diameter, segmented worm, with a round maw lined with three rows of fangs, and a 3-foot long tail stinger. I am a leprous beast, pale white in colour, and lined with pale blue ridges. I am said to be the spawn of Yikkorth, who is held to have impregnated the great glaciers of Hyperborea with my eggs.

What am I?

Chainsaw? At least that's how he looks in the pix on the Brew thread.

Blackadder23 · 5/05/2015 9:20 am

Remorhaz!

capitalbill · 5/05/2015 10:10 am

Sorry, not the Remorhaz.

Blackadder23 · 5/05/2015 10:13 am

Ice daemon then.

capitalbill · 5/05/2015 7:20 pm

That is correct!

Your turn.

Blackadder23 · 5/05/2015 10:14 pm

Name two places inhabited by "renegade" Amazons (i.e., Amazons who deny the authority of the queen in Pandoros).

The_Great_Lestrade · 5/08/2015 8:21 am

Anlates Isles; full of mad amazonians

City in the Clouds; the Queen here don't recognise no authority.

I'm unclear on who the amazonians of whider Paradoxon recognise as their ruler, but they could be rebels too.

Last edited by The_Great_Lestrade (5/08/2015 8:21 am)

Blackadder23 · 5/08/2015 8:29 am

Both good answers. Another example would be Xenadon, where the witch Lur is served by "a league of renegade Amazons".

Your turn!

The_Great_Lestrade · 5/08/2015 9:19 am

this is a rather open ended question as i don't know the answer and you could be creative with it.

What is the highest amount of damage you could cause as the result of casting a spell?

an example answer would be blinding light. A 7HD or greater creature could fail its save and fall into a lava pool suffering all 7+HD damage. Come up with a spell result that deals more damage.

Blackadder23 · 5/08/2015 12:48 pm

Following on the line of thought in your example...

It looks to me like 147 hit points is the most any creature can have by the book - specifically, a barbarian or berserker with 18 CON (108 rolled hit points for the first nine levels + 27 CON bonus for the first nine levels + 12 hit points for the last three levels). This is more than a blue whale or colossal squid (144 max). Since death occurs at -10, I suppose you could argue that any "instant death" spell (such as death ray of immolation) must be capable of inflicting at least 157 points of damage.

Handy Haversack · 5/08/2015 1:05 pm

Not that it's an answer, but when Chainsaw's GaryCon character was stepped on by a lava godling he was trying to placate while it tried (successfully) to keep walking, I just picked up all my d20s, rolled them, added, and squared the total. So 118^2 damage is the most I've ever actually rolled.

Chainsaw · 5/08/2015 3:15 pm

Handy Haversack wrote:
Not that it's an answer, but when Chainsaw's GaryCon character was stepped on by a lava godling he was trying to placate while it tried (successfully) to keep walking, I just picked up all my d20s, rolled them, added, and squared the total. So 118^2 damage is the most I've ever actually rolled.

Bah! Merely a flesh wound.

Handy Haversack · 5/08/2015 3:41 pm

Gizmomathboy can come along and correct my calculations, which no bar napkin or envelope would ever want to get in front of, but if a daemon grappled a character and teleported 3,840 feet upward and dropped the character, I think that's about what's required to reach terminal velocity. So 384d6 would be the damage roll, an mean of 1,344.

Still less than Chainsaw took.

The_Great_Lestrade · 5/13/2015 7:47 am

good answers, either of you can post the next question.

Handy Haversack · 5/16/2015 11:22 pm

I've been drinking and canoeing. Blackadder23, you want this?

Chainsaw · 5/17/2015 5:39 am

Handy Haversack wrote:
I've been drinking and canoeing.

A recipe for success!

Blackadder23 · 5/18/2015 1:56 pm

Name at least three deities that are stated to be revered by druids.