My Disgaea Game... Huge Success

[Koumei]

Okay, updating a week late...

They decided they didn't feel like beating What's-his-name up (yes, they call him that), and instead went to Celestia to find out (from their sponsor, the cafe) when the next gig is.

It is looking like there doesn't even need to be a plot, or development - that the group would be happy to go from one gig to the next, just vaguely doing stuff. But I still intend on making things happen in the world, to see if anything catches their interest.

Anyway, it was to be on the Sea of Gehennom. Which is made of fire. You actually need Fire Resistance 5 or more to get through the Dimensional Gate to there*, so they used cohort spells, class features and the like.

They decided to round up some other bands, making them do a battle of the bands for the right to be the warm-up gig. So they fetched the WindStone Runners, as well as three more: Search Google, The Raging Cephalopods and Rhetorical Paranoid. The Raging Cephalopods won, with "Pleasure All Over my Face" as their song.

The Perform checks for the PCs were in the 40-range, so it was big. After, a Fire-Sahuagin asked for their assistance. He needed them to go on a fetch quest.

"You see... the amulet that encapsulates my Manliness has been stolen! By giant bugs in the Elysian Fields! I was just innocently burning things down when it happened! Until I get it back, my title is [Princess]!"

So they decided to do that, helping the Fire Princess out. They went to Elysium and found the giant bugs (CR 3-ish) around a ruins. They seemed to be dressed in human clothes, and acting like the working class. So, these were the carnivorous peasants.

The cat could smell that each room had a chemical scent in it, to tell the bugs how to act. Mostly the bugs ignored them, but when they attacked, it was... short-lived and violent.

Eventually they found The Naked Giant, leader of the bugs.

NSFW, boobies

Yes, it's that silly Random Quest result. Anyway, a Storm Giant with more hit dice but no armour - a bump in CR but totally within their capacity. And good thing I went for the higher CR, too, because she lost Initiative, and well... were it not for the extra HD, she wouldn't have had a single action.

Harry D-Doored behind her, with Sam, allowing Sam to make a full attack. Kwess pounced, which hurt very much. And Avariel did some serious Flasking.

Giant's response was to call down a lightning strike on Avariel, for "single digit" damage. And to use the Great Sword, getting a crit on Harry (taking him to half health), hitting Kwess normally (taking her to half health) and missing Sam (due to Mounted Combat).

And then they brought the damage total up to 370 at the start of the second round, killing her good and proper. They looted the place, getting the amulet, some other shinies and of course, a cursed item. A book with a picture of a titan shrugging, and the world falling off his shoulders and breaking**.

Just seeing it, one declared they needed to Remove Curse, another wanted to burn it. Naturally we settled for "both". I looked over the description... that is the only way to destroy the cursed book. Awesome.

And we called it there.

*See Disgaea 1, where some places need keys or whatever.

**Atlas Shrugged, of course. It was the first thing that came into my head when I thought of the book that makes its readers stupid.

[Koumei]

So they ate the giant (well, Kwess did), and decided they could make a throne out of her skeleton so they took that. Then decided to go give [Princess] his Manliness back, in return for him making dessert. It was fiery, granting them Cold Resist 15 for "the rest of the session".

Upon returning home, the foreman of the "turn the gold Device into a giant fuck-off electric guitar" project explained how they couldn't get it working, dood, because the power source needs to be Mjolnir, the Rank 40 Legendary Warhammer.

So they went to the senate to get permission to fully Item World.
Avariel bribed the green dragon with acid, Kwess gave her autograph to the apple, and Harry intimidated his fellow ghost.

Then Kwess gave the orc a lap dance, Avariel failed to intimidate a wood golem, and Harry bribed it. In the end, there was only one Nay (Sen. Dood).

Motion [Go Deeper] Passed! Apparently I can say the Aye and Nay exactly like the game says them.

For Item World, we decided it would basically be a handful of individual levels that are unconnected, and just a few, with much "and you skip 20 levels". So they did floor 1:

4 Slimes (CR 1) and 3 Hell Moths (CR 1). Quivering with fear. They would have surrendered, but Kwess and Harry decided to Whirlwind them.

Skipped to level 20. A Bronze Serpent (Item General) awaited, along with 6 regular shitty human zombies. But as soon as they got there... PIRATES ALERT!

Ion cannon blasts rained down (all must make a DC 15 Ref Save or take 6d6 Electricity damage). The Serpent is immune, the PCs all pass, and 3 zombies pass (the rest explode). One rolls a 20 (for a total of 19 - I'm not using the dumb 1 and 20 rules, but players love a 1 or 20 anyway) so he was declared a ninja.

The Space Battleship Yoshitsuna arrived, with four PRISM PIRATES!

PRISM RED! Rogue 5/Prism 4: 13 17 15 11 (14) 9 14 -2/53 Init +9
-Imp. Init, Blooded, Multi-Attack, Finesse, Heroic Stab
+14/+14/+14/+9/+9 Touch Magic Knives (1d6+4 plus 2d6 Fire and 3d6 Sneak Attack)
-The Hero! Fire Resist 18 Cold Resist 18 Poison Immune Electricity Resist 45
-Magic Lycra at +5
-AC 19 (Flat 15 Touch 14) Fort +10 Ref +15 Will +4
-Prism Aura
-Helmet of Saving Grace

PRISM BLUE! Wizard 9: 13 15 14 18 (21) 9 11 -21/22 Init +6
-Imp. Init, Jotunbrud, INA, Extend, Imp. Grapple, Mountain Crush
-Blue Lycra: Cold Resist 18
-BAB/Grab +4/+34 (1d6+1d12+2+2d6Cold+1d8Acid)
-Swift: +5 Dodge to AC, Immediate: +2d6 Cold to Red
-AC 17 (Touch 12 Flat 15) Fort +8 Ref +8 Will +8
-Helmet of Saving Grace
1st DC 16: Enlarge Person--, Babau Slime--, Grease, MM, MM, Grease
2nd DC 17: Web, Summon Swarm, Bladeweave--, Balor Nimbus (6d6)--, Fearsome Grapple (+8)
3rd DC 18: Displacement--, Hamatula Barbs (1d6)--, Fireball, Fly
4th DC 19: Black Tentacles, Shadow Well, Extended Fearsome Grapple--
5th DC 20: TK, TK

Yes, a grapplemancer who was pre-buffed - but hey, it's better than just using those spells on actual "You lose" spells. I sandbagged a bit, but that made it fun for all.

PRISM GREEN! Barbarian 9: 18 (21) 14 15 (18) 9 11 13 -114/103 Init +8 DR 1/-
-Blooded, Imp. Init, Jump Attack, Imp. Toughness, Shark Proficiency
-Green Lycra: Poison Immune, RAAAAAGE
-AC 17 (Touch 12 Flat 15)
-Swift Poison (DC 18, 1d6 Con 1d6 Con)
-Charging Shark Slap +14 (15) 3d6+30 (3d6+37) and 2 Con
-Stationary Shark Slap +15/+10 (15/10) 3d6+18 (3d6+29) and 2 Con
-Garter Belt of Manliness
-Immediate: Red does 2 Con

PRISM YELLOW!
-Elf Rogue 9: 9 19 (22) 14 14 13 11 -81/49 Init +12
-Blooded, Imp. Init, Multi-Attack, Rapidshot
-Yellow Lycra Electricity Resist 45
-Helmet of Saving Grace
-Evasion
-AC 21 (Flat 15 Touch 16) Fort +8 Ref +15 Will +7
-Immediate: +2d6 Zap to Red
-Flasks +12/+12/+12/+7/+7 Touch (1d6 Acid +5d6 Sneak Attack)
-Swift Lightning Bolt (9d6 Zap, DC 20)

I randomly rolled (including the snake) to see who each Prism Ranger attacked at first.

Snake charges Sam, bites and squeezes!
Avariel entangles ninja zombie with rope (wants to catch it)
Yellow zaps Harry with lightning bolt, Sam evades, snake is immune, explodes a zombie
Green shark-slaps the cat with a charge, COUNTER!, poison misses
Blue attempts to suplex the snake, Sam helps, BAM!
Red stabs Harry into negative 1 (the other rangers all aid him)! (can act fine below 0 until dead)
Kwess hurts Green very much with Iaijutsu
Zombies are useless
Sam piledrives Blue into carbon shadow
Harry takes out Red... and the Snake, designates Green
Avariel murders Yellow outright
Green misses Harry with shark
Kwess annihilates Green
Zombies are useless
Sam taunts zombie
Avariel ties zombie up
Kwess gets healed
Zombie is useless
Harry is sympathetic
Zombie flails itself into submission
[Zombie and Ninja Zombie have joined the party]

Amongst the treasure gained, they find a treasure map segment (Land of Carnage Ahoy!) and they get the Yoshitsuna.

MYSTERY ROOM! The Rosen Queen Department Store. So everyone buys a major magic item that will take form when they decide on it before next session. And they filled in the form: More Expensive Items!, More Weapons!, Yes we are interested in the Dark World, One Wish: DESSERT

Skipped to the 50th floor where they found a roper and 16 bugbears. Avariel flasked the roper in one turn, and Kwess and Harry+Sam whirlwinded all of the bugbears to death in one turn. Yeah, another joke/feel good battle.

They then decided to leave at the Innocent Town and sleep+heal.

Then... they skipped to floor 100. There was... THE ITEM GOD.

Orc Samurai 7/Item God 5
20 (24) 20 18 14 16 13
-BAB +10
-F +13 R +11 W +12
-AC 24 (Magic Chain +7 Dex +5 Dodge +2) Flat 17 Touch 15
-HP: 124
-Init +8
-Hammer Time +22/+22/+20 (1d10+14 plus 1d6+10 Sonic +2 Con, 20/x3 Fort vs Daze 1 DC 22)
-Mjolnir! -Gladiator, Conductor, Wounding, Ghost Touch, Haste, See Invisible, Regen 5/Dismemberment
-Kiai! 7/day
-Horde Breaker
-Whirlwind Attack
-Blindfighting
-NO DR APPLIES EVER HAHAHA
-Iaijutsu: AoO as Immediate, HA! (requires Edge)
-Combat School: Thorhammer, Blitz, Danger Sense, Elusive Target, Great Fortitude

Kwess activates Power Metal to boost the party effectiveness
Avariel waits, not wanting to be closest
Sam and Harry charge, deal 103 damage between them
Samurai Kiais Harry, which hurts very much
Kwess charges, gets pre-Counter Kiaied with Iaijutsu and drops to -2, it's Super Effective!
Avariel flies up and attacks, hits once, KO!
Sam dismembers the Samurai good and proper
VICTORYYYYY

So now they have the Mjolnir to use for the guitar. Naturally they transfer the Innocents into Kwess' magic hammer first. So her hammer now has:
Dietician (Con boost)
Gladiator (Str boost)
Dentist (Will vs Fear)
Conductor (Sonic damage)
Murderer (when she hits level 15+, killer weapon)

And that's where we left off. They hit level 12, so are no longer even in the same area code as seriousness.

[Josh_Kablack]

no longer even in the same area code as seriousness.

Was this game ever ?

[Koumei]

No. No it was not.

Also, while the majority of my D&D books are in dead tree format, a bunch of them were not, and for no discernible reason mysteriously disappeared at the same time my old laptop died. I know, holy shit, what are the chances?

Anyone happen to have the CRs ("real" CRs if they possess the [Awesome] subtype) of the Dire Polar Bear (It's Cold Outside) and Ironclad Mauler (MM3)? Because Sam is currently a Dire Bear, and as he's an actual cohort I like to keep him evolved to level-2 in CR. I suppose he could just gain 12 HD and become Huge for a bump from CR 7 to 10, but it's fun to actually palette swap him. And Ironclad Mauler is pretty awesome for an Undead to ride, IIRC.

[Josh_Kablack]

Listed CR is 11. No idea if that's [awesome] or not, just what the entry in the book says.

Also, backup storage is cheap nowadays. If one had a scanner and a disregard for US copyright law one could easily fit pages equal to my entire RPG collection on one $10 USB drive with room left over.

[Koumei]

>Legendary Chocolate!
So they visited the Cake Shop in Celestia to ask about it, discovering that they now have great merch.

"Visit Etna or Juiblex or something? I dunno..."

So they decide to steal it from Etna.

>[I want a crossover!] Bill

Undead are everywhere...

Sen. Puff-Puff (Wight) LOATHE
Sen. Ramsbutton (Zombie) LOATHE
Sen. Crispy (Deathbringer) LOATHE
Sen. Charles (Zombie) LOATHE
Sen. Hadworth (Skelly) LOATHE
Sen. Kamarazoff (Zombie) LOATHE
Sen. Rashi (Wight) LOATHE

They all successfully influence the moods of a senator each, but that isn't that much of a change. Denied -> Persuade by Force

Kwess whirlwinds, killing all of the mooks...
Avariel nukes the fuck out of Deathbringer
Sam and Harry CHAAAAAARGE
Sam and Harry hit, doing significant damage, and designate it.
It smacks Harry for 0, and unleashes a burst, which is unimpressive.

Kwess charges, provokes a miss, pounces... 4 hits and a crit, GONE (-63 HP)

They didn't care about the ACTUAL senators - even when the janitor Prinny explained what had happened - and went to visit Etna and steal her chocolate. When she discovered them, she just invited them to a MAGIC TEA PARTY (which they enjoyed very much).

She Explains she got her legendary chocolate (all out) from Sen. Puff-Puff, who is "on holiday on a beach on some crappy little unimportant layer of the Abyss". "Do you think that's our beach on a crappy little unimportant layer of the Abyss?"

So they head home, and from there to the hotspring, where she would surely have stopped off. Talked to her, made a deal...

FIGHT!

Avariel punched with her magic Poison Fire Gauntlets, with 2 hits.
Kwess unleashed a sonic cone with It Goes to Eleven. Saved! And Natural Frequency as well... Missed. And Battlesong activated.
Puff-Puff unleashes a full attack, Kwess takes 2 hits (2 counters), Avariel takes 1 hit. Harry takes a jab, is missed twice (swift jab, and peach press). Sam and Harry hurt very much, defeating her.
[Sen. Puff-Puff has been forcefully added to the party!] (as scenery)
Legendary Chocolate is handed over, she is given the tower under the castle.

"Hmm... how about LEGENDARY TAQUITOS!"
They Death Warded up and headed to the Dark World. They get taquitos and talk to Ramsbuton, overriding Gate with Suggestion (winning the opposed Charisma check).

Nightwing intercepts, FIGHT!
IT GOES TO ELEVEN! And Natural Frequency! Damaged!
SMITING TIME! Three hits and a crit...
DEAD!

They head back home, where he makes legendary taquitos for them. And the session ends there...

[Koumei]

So, having been invited (by the Dark World Representative at RozenQueen) the party entered the Dark World...

Floor 2: Dancing Dire Prinnies... they just teleported up and started attacking the DDPs (Vrocks). Kwess got Stunned, Kwess and Sam got Spored...

The first Prinny actually took a little bit to kill, what with action denial going on (and some poor rolls, a few being unable to full attack etc.), but the next two were torn to shreds in 1 round flat. Kwess snaps out of it! BANG! And some Sonic damage to boot. Avariel then decided to charge for some kidney Punches! DEAD!

ONWARDS!

Level 3: the Rakshasa was hired on the spot... to do the same job, but for them. So it resumed slavedriving the minions, and demanded they cheer for the party.

Level 4: Vyers [Mid-Flunkie] interrupts on next floor, trying to warn them... flasked for 45, nearly taken out. He enters his second stance (already having one active from the 1-minute Monk effect), and PANCH! PANCH! Sam and Kwess get hurt, he gets countered... and then full attacked by Kwess, KO!

Levels 5-7 are skipped thanks to the warp tunnel, but then level 8: they decided to throw minions to the sea lion to eat. Except when they started throwing prinnies, well...

One explosion later, it charges and misses Kwess. Avariel flasks it, and Harry annihilates it. [The Mysterious Seal was Broken]

They eat the seal.

The ninth floor...

2 Hezrou went to attack party, 2 Hamatula backstab the Hezrou. Flasking occurs! And a [Sonic] cone attack! Pop goes a Hezrou!

TELEPORTING BEAR ATTACK! Pop goes the Hamatula!

The other Hamatula is useless, failing to bypass Harry's DR, and he's immune to its [Fear] effect.

Hezrou uses BLASPHEMY! It's super effective! Everybody else is Stunned (1) and Weakened (10 Str, 4 rounds)

It claws Sam a bit (uselessly), and Nauseates Sam and Harry. It then eats a flask, and thanks to Schadenfreude it is Nauseated until 1d4 rounds after it gets more than 10' away... from itself. So, it is Nauseated FOREVER.

Kwess finds a collar, collars the bastard and is nauseated as a result. Much staggering and nausea occurs.

Flaskerisation... and the Hamatula gouges its own eyes out and dies (we all love Schadenfreude!)

Wild Hezrou has been captured!

Level 10... indeed, all the Overlords have been murdered. And there are notes: "Oh no you don't - OV"

They finally escaped the Dark World, gaining random bizarre items.

[Koumei]

So... they decided to track down Overlord Vecnathrax. They headed to his Skeletron, and tracked him by scent to a Gate, which lead to the set of their next performance: them vs. MCMC.

So many corpses, corpses everywhere! MCMC walked in to find them looting the corpses. She summoned 22 mephits to go and hurt these murderers...

Kwess wiped all the minions out, and also hurt MCMC... who used a breath weapon, for little damage but 14 Dex damage or something. This hurt quite a lot, but MCMC was wiped out afterwards. They decided to res her, using her as a chandelier (multicoloured glowing body paint). Or a fridge.

They then sniffed out the cafeteria, and found a hiding survivor, who drew pictures of the attackers:
Nightmare Beast
Deathshrieker thing
The boss

The Nightmare Beast was easy to find, trapped in the mosh pit. They killed it. From there they found Lord Vecnathrax gagged and bound in a janitor closet, so just took him as well, figuring him a useful chandelier too.

Then they found...
THIS
(Ogre Barbarian/Death Knight, CR 15)

He was sitting on a pile of corpses like a throne, yet still tried to convince them it was that vile Lord Vecnathrax who was causing all the trouble. They didn't believe him and attacked...

It turned out that even teleporting up to him was enough to provoke an attack of opportunity. Sam took a strong hit, Harry took a strong hit (and the ruinous weapon meant no DR), and Kwess... gave her hit to Harry instead of being half-killed in one blow.

They did actually manage to very nearly drop him in one turn, but he stood firm and on his turn, Harry took a strong hit (being reduced to rather few HP), Avariel was close enough to hit (being reduced to somewhat low HP) and Kwess... passed an attack off to Sam, who was damaged a lot but got an attack of opportunity... and the AoO was the killing blow.

Sam, the manager and BEAR, has now become an Overlord. The cohort technically outranks the party. They looted all his stuff, including his journal: he started off as a happy dumb ogre who liked to fight stuff and really liked killing undead and demons (because MONSTERS BAD, KILL BAD THINGS MEANS GOOD!) But he grew to enjoy his job far too much, until he eventually fell in with a bad crowd and became a demon lord's thrall. Now, the demon lord does all the thinking for him, and he became REAL GOOD AT KILLING STUFF SO EVERYTHING IS GOOD NOW!

It basically ended there, after they took the tickets off their dead fans and used e-bay to sell them for A) a HUGE profit and B) new fans

Next session, they intend on finding new fans, and new overlords - so that they can join Sam as Overlords. Ideas will be in the other thread, because they read this to remember what they have been doing.

[Koumei]

So, they were invited to a tea party by Vurasel (from over a year ago). It was good, and she gave them a list of Overlords they can shank. For next session they're tempted to kill AlexanderAss-hat, or a D&D Overlord ("because they're stupid").

And she invited them to kill-but-not-proper-kill her. The players loved the cooking I did. There will be photos - they thought the minis were almost too good to eat.

Floor 1: they murderised one purple worm, then the next burrowed up and bit and grabbed Avariel... only to be utterly mauled by Sam and Harry. Kwess didn't actually get a turn.

Floor 2: Kwess started, nearly lapped the place and hit every enemy (2 colossal spiders, 1 juggernaut). Avariel utterly destroyed one spider, and Sam+Harry teleport-assaulted the juggernaut to death. The remaining spider bit Harry (disrupting the challenge and actually doing enough damage to actually do damage after DR was subtracted, but not poisoning him). Kwess then pounced it to death.

Healing occurred, and they faced the dragon... Adult Green Dragon, FIGHT! Move+Flask from Avariel (miss, hit - no acid, but Smite+Sneak Attack+PBS+Blitz was added to the Fire Trap), then Kwess charged it and hurt it quite a bit. It then used its breath weapon, hurting both and doing significant damage - especially given it was lingering, clinging damage. Sam and Harry then teleported and finished the CR "13" dragon off. One round total, bam. They then healed, scraped acid off etc. But damage had at least been suffered.

Finally... Vurasel + four 18HD prinnies. Kwess whirlwinded and hurt a bunch of them, and then Avariel flasked two prinnies to death. Oops.

They exploded, hurting the party a fair bit. This was enough to make the third one explode, which hurt even more. And that was enough to make the fourth one explode. Thanks to resistances, Vurasel didn't take too much damage. But Sam was at 1/2 HP, Harry was at a total of 8 HP (granted, he healed a bunch on his turn, next), and Avariel and Kwess were both killed. Good thing it's Disgaeaverse, hey?

Thankfully, Harry managed to kill her, gaining her title. We took a vote, and he isn't [Overlord], he's [Beauty Queen]. So the party rezzed up and then got prinnies to move the castle over to theirs - it is now a stack of three castles.

[Koumei]

So it turns out only one of the photos was any damn good. But hey, better than none. So, enjoy prinnies, battlemat and (in background) dragon:

[Koumei]

Right, so, last session was a bit short: I arrived late (I was at a party the night before, and weekend public transport is a joke), and was still a bit zoned out from possibly still having alcohol in the system, and all the sex. The others were also a little sleepy, so it didn't really matter.

They all agreed that Ass-hat was the one who needed his face stabbed, so they auto-passed the bill and went straight on in. They agreed the area was cool, but decided it needed a performance. That attracted Raiden, who was not very helpful: he didn't know that Ass-hat was a nickname for Alexander, so was unable to provide them with any useful information (and also unable to care about their task). They got into a fight with him, he lost initiative and never had a single turn, they killed him so hard. Had he a turn, he could have taken a PC out or splashed some injuries all around, but oh well. They decided to keep him to use as a power source for their massive gold cockelectric guitar.

He did point, however, at Alexander's tower: the biggest one, with a stairway on the outside, and a hurricane surrounding it. Everyone who wasn't a cat just Dimension Doored, whereas the cat ran up the wall and passed her save not to be picked up by the winds and hurled off somewhere. At the top, they found some storm elementals that were haphazardly making noise with wind instruments. They got the stormies on side though and rolled them into an awesome performance, before slicing the top hatch open and dropping in.

They asked if he was Ass-hat, he accused them of being in league with Zetta, there was talk, they realised he's an Overlord so worth killing, and combat started.

Alexander went first. Every PC won a large dash of damage, given he didn't yet know his scariest target (and I was intentionally playing him down). Then the flasking happened, and hurt a lot. Then a bear and knight occurred, and... okay. I forgot he actually had the ability to Immediately negate the damage (not riders) of a single attack. So he was dropped to "Defeated", and the Cat finished him off to steal his title [Overlord]/[God of Destruction]. Had I remembered, he would have survived it, only to get murderised properly by Kwess. So it's all good.

And next session they might go wail on Babylon or Orcus or... who knows? Kwess' player really wants to go and happen to Dark Hero Axel. Because he's played through enough Disgaea 4 to hate him bald, and I'm still waiting on my fucking copy.

[Koumei]

Right, so, last session...

They decided they wanted to go to a nice restaurant, so they headed to one that looked (from the outside) like a coliseum, called "Limbs". If it could be considered a limb, it was on the menu - arms, legs, wings, tentacles, vines, ooze pseudopods, beholder eye-stalks, mhorg entrails (given they use their intestines as grabbing limbs), prehensile demon beards, tongues (for the various monsters that actually use their tongues as limbs), tails...

So they ate like it was a Slayers movie.

After that, they decided the smart thing to do would be to kill the last Overlord on their list. That way they would have gone from first to last, and thus beaten ALL of them! So they challenged Lord Zetta.

Bookland was a marvellous journey - they navigated books while jumping around and killing foes. But they actually took enough damage to warrant healing after the first mass encounter - basic enemies got wiped out rapidly, but the harpies managed to plink them for bits of damage, the Baciel surprised everyone with its ability to survive damage and actually hurt the knight, the prinny explosions didn't hurt teammates (but DID wipe out other enemies), and so on. The Reaper injured Kwess with a fireball (and incidentally killing a few other minions - hooray for N1 AI!)

And the professor... she made Kwess use her 1/day Wings of Cover to avoid a Parboil, and Dominated Sam (the Ironclad Mauler). Harry D-Doored Sam over to a little island, then took a full attack to the face. Sam was easily able to get past even Harry's DR. Then Harry D-Doored away on his own, the next round, so Sam could cool off. And they killed the Plasma Professor. Who exploded. Damage all round.

After that, they enjoyed spotting their orc pals, and making enough loud music to knock other towers over.

"Wait, that lot are on a stack of yellow books, with one red book in the middle of the stack? I Shatter the red book, to create a geo-chain."

Finally, the fight against Zetta and minions. He took a lot of Sneak Attack damage, but was basically fine. More or less. Kwess then did a lap and killed all of the minions by rolling a crit rather than using a Kiai! Then, Zetta Meteor Stormed the Harry+Sam+Kwess cluster because it would deal the most damage, as opposed to things like "Disintegrate... the only people I'll reliably hit on the RTA would make the save automatically", so Harry got Sam to grapple Zetta. Yeah, Zetta did well, but was basically immobilised, so the second barrage of Smiting Sneak Attack flasks finished him off.

Zetta didn't even ask why they were taking him on - he was used to upstart Overlords tackling him. This is just the first time he lost. So now Avariel is [Badass Freakin' Overlord] and the party have enough loot to become a legitimate supplier for Rozen Queen in future.

With that, they hit 15th level, and I decided we're holding the game off until after the whole Lucia-Christmas-NewYears thing.