#I'm also gonna see what her commission availability is lookin like I want a Gera swt
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ruckis--rookie · 11 months ago
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soooo how did Gera do? is he still alive?
If this is in reference to D&D, yes! I'm assuming this is about D&D.
I'm gonna go into the gorey details beneath a cut, but to give you an idea of how scary it got...
He had to kill an undead beholder 4 times over, he killed an adult Solar Dragon with some help by literally eating its heart out, and he took down a Solar (angelic celestial being) in 1 turn.
The last fight he went up against a PC who is a bounty hunter, specifically made with the goal of being able to kick our party's ass in mind. Gera is level 22 (going into prestige levels) and the guy was CR 21. The Hunter was also made by a good anonymous friend of mine who's been doing D&D for years and has a track record of making SCARY asf characters. The only reason Gera won was because of technicality, and it changed an entire Arenth law.
He won not because he killed the guy as intended because it was a battle to the death, but because he had endured and outlasted him. The Hunter, as we've been calling him, strained himself and exhausted all of his stuff causing him to collapse. Gera had won, but just barely. He was bloodied, bruised, and had about 40 or so out of his 399 HP left. Completely ran through most of his good healing options.
Now, for the exciting details! I hope you enjoy ^^
The third round of what was supposed to be 10 consisted of an undead beholder, which admitted gave Gera more trouble than the displacer beast.
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Perhaps the most annoying part was the fact that it kept succeeding constitution saves and getting back up with 1 HP. It wasn't until Gera tried wedging its mouth open with a sword to climb inside; to allow himself to be ripped apart out of sheer annoyance, that it finally went down. To which he started throwing a fit because the one time he didn't want it dead is when it finally stops moving... he was also effectively lobotomized by one of its beams and Gera is very much not happy because it ruined his pride and joy, his hair. His visage has been ruined.
So we move on to the fourth round after Naga, the king, was told that it was a stupid idea to include an undead in the arena. This time it's a space elf whom Gera attempted to be cheeky and make small talk to. At one point or another she had said that she was "just waiting for someone to kill me" to which Gera responded "perhaps I can help you out on that front". She had good reason, a Solar Dragon was attached to her. Those things can be parasites, literally eating suns. Gera swiftly made a move and stunned her, and using our battle system and certain manuevers, he stabbed her in the heart and then decapitated her.
Before her death she had warned them of the dragon and Gera was told to stop, then he had informed them that he was told to help kill the dragon. The others rushed into the arena to help kill an adult Solar Dragon.
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...which we desecrated before it could even attack. The others had managed to pin it down and stun it, which Gera took full advantage of and disemboweled it. He started mowing through its intestines with his swords all the way to it's heart, where he started eating it alive from the inside out. He started with the central arteries and ate his way around, having gotten about halfway through before Solga (another one of our party members) used it's chest cavity as a punching bag and caused the heart to spill out with Gera in it like the thing was a damn cradle.
At that point Naga having unwittingly made two vital mistakes allowed Gera to skip right to the last two fights, as an apology for making him go through hell within the first 4 rounds. The second to last was against a Solar, a highly revered representative of Arenthal's evil snake god Sseth.
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^^ not exactly what the dude looked like but this is official art of a Solar. The guy Gera was up against looked more like a fallen celestial and had four wings.
Now this one I nearly had a heart attack over because one hit from this guy's arrow and it took our 100+ of my HP immediately. The guy also had a sentient sword in which he placed directly below him. I'm not kidding when I say I won out of a combination of getting lucky and smart strategy. Gera cemented his role as the Deadshot of the D&D world by dismembering two wings on the same side of this guy with two arrow shots, causing this guy to spiral downward. He followed that up with a headshot while the Solar was spiraling, in before he was impaled on his own sword stake style and killed. There was utter silence from the crowd, having seen this small creature down one of their greatest defenders in six seconds. They were afraid. It didn't help when Gera snapped his neck over to look at the crowd. Eyes completely white, glowing white liquid dripping from his maw. He started giggling, which delved into mad cackling. It was at that point that Naga realized, thy quote, "That's no man... that's a monster."
Gera sauntered over to the sword that was left behind, picking it up an examining it. It spoke to him. "You're not my master." Gera just chuckled and shook his head no, responding. "I'm afraid your master messed with someone far above his pay grade." The sword replied, "I'm going to have to ask you to let me go." Gera looks up towards the nobles booth, then back at the sword. With a grin and a simple "okay" he spun around and slingshot the sword towards the booth, throwing it so hard that it stuck into the magical barrier preventing the crowd from getting hurt. Gera was ushered back to the cage where he calmly approached. Paused for a moment. Took a deep breath, closed his eyes... and when he opened them next they were back to normal. A sweet innocent smile resting on his face.
There wasn't anything too noteworthy about the last fight, a lot of it was just chaotic baloney that had us cackling. Gera knew range would either be his friend or his enemy with The Hunter, this guy was fast. If he could slow him down via nerve shots he'd be in the clear. But unfortunately all of his arrow shots didn't work out for him, the man was too quick. He tried setting up his echo and a mirror Image to protect himself... got his head kicked in, echoes destroyed and mirror images wiped. So it was clear that range wasn't at all his friend. So then Gera decided if range wasn't his friend, he would have to prevent The Hunter from getting any farther. So he clung to him like a cat trying not to touch water. Chaos ensued. Truth be told Gera didn't have a plan after that but he noticed that the more energy The Hunter expended trying to get him off the more exhausted he started to look. So he figured it was a game of endurance and he was determined to endure and outlast.
It ended up working out for him! Just barely. For the first time in Arenth history they had to adjust the rules. Gera won. And for the first time in years Sseth made his presence known to bless Gera. He healed him up for a descent amount and Gera was set free.
The first thing he did was make a beeline to get a nice relaxing bath.
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