The purple flames consuming the Burning Man flared up and something, many somethings erupted from the flickering violet tongues. Of course it had to be tentacles, great suckered appendages that would have made a colossal squid proud. They latched on the ground and pulled, as though trying to lift the rest of their body out of the ground - but there were too few, instead of the eight or ten usually present on such a beast there were only three, and it ended up, well... stuck.<br/><br/>"No! It's not enough! The Lord of the Deep demands more!" The High Priestess cried out in Anguish, whatever evil plan she had so close to coming to fruition only to flounder so short of the mark. "Bring the offerings, all of them! I need more sacrifices for the Tentacled one!"<br/><br/>The crowd finally began to suspect that this wasn't part of the planned show - but it was too late. Unable to be brought forth in its entirely into the world, the eldritch thing lashed out wildly with the tentacle in the door, so to speak. The appendage swept a low wide arc, and the first thing it knocked down was one of the cultists advancing on Scandal. Sensing prey, the tentacle wrapped around its unfortunate victim and pulled him into the middle of the Effigy... where the flames engulfed him in a cloud of opaque violet smoke into which he disappeared!<br/><br/>That was enough to cause a panic, people screaming as they tried to run away and do everything in their power to become the second victim, the chaos threatening to turn into a stampede.<br/><br/><strong>The Effigy</strong><br/><em>Tagging: Angela (?), Scandal</em><br/><br/>"They have the Grapes! Get them, you fools!" The High Priestess shouted at her surviving cultist henchmen, pointing at Angela and Scandal. Unfazed, even invigorated by the presence of the giant tentacles, they obeyed their mistress!<br/><br/>A man and a woman, in black trunks and bikinis more suited for the beach, sprang towards Scandal looking to do their mistress's bidding! The male minion swung and thin air, but the female minion bent low and tackled Scandal and wrapped her arms around her waist in a tight squeeze, trying to hold onto her with unnatural strength!<br/><br/><em>Male minion attempts grab: 1+8 = 9, miss!<br/>Female minion attempts grab: 13+8 = 21, which exceeds Scandal's Parry defense of 19! (https://elliquiy.com/forums/dicebot.php?r=138780)<br/>Scandal must make a resistance check using the better of Strength or Dodge (d20 + better of Strength of Dodge) against DC 14 to avoid being grabbed!</em><br/><br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Minions rules primer</div><div class="spoiler_body">You can make routine checks against minions (i.e. take 10 instead rolling d20).<br/>Minions are generally defeated after one successful "hit".</div></div><br/><br/><div class="floatleft">(https://i.imgur.com/GFqQxpo.png)</div><strong>The Body Artist</strong><br/><em>Tagging: Stryka, Briar Rose (?)</em><br/><br/>"Impossible!" The Body Artist exclaimed as Stryka cracked the stone shell around her and made it look effortless too. She snatched up a duffel bag that looked like it was holding a bunch of heavy can-shaped contents, and pushed into the panicking crowd, trying to get lost from sight in the flow of fleeing people. "Stop her!" she shouted, and Stryka could see her heading towards the purple flames of the burning effigy before she was swallowed up in the crowd.<br/><br/>Two of the body-painted victims turned towards Stryka and stepped forward, silently barring the way towards their fleeing painter-sculptor. Not only did they look like statues - now they practically were animated statues, with a rock-hard shell protecting and overriding the soft person inside! Swinging stony fists towards her, they meant business!<br/><br/><em>First statue attacks: 13+6 = 19, hits Stryka's Parry defense of 14!<br/>Second statue attacks: 12+6 = 18, hits Stryka's Parry defense of 14! (https://elliquiy.com/forums/dicebot.php?r=138781)<br/>Each hit is damage rank 10, so Stryka needs to make two damage resistance checks (d20 + Toughness) against DC 25!<br/>The statues count as minions.</em><br/><br/><strong>The Cart</strong><br/><em>Tagging: Daibuster</em><br/><br/>Last but not least, Nanako had to keep pulling the cart despite the protests of her muscles, harnessed as she was in a ponygirl bondage suit. The riding crop smacked her bare buttcheeks repeatedly until she was galloping full-out, leaving red marks on her rear. With every step the bells clamped to her nipples and clit swung, their weight tugging the sensitive nubs this way and that!<br/><br/>Blinded Nanako couldn't see that the cart driver was steering directly towards the burning effigy... driving a cart full of cans of Tentacle Grape towards the tentacles. People scrambled to get out of the way of the incoming cart, screaming - despite her ears being muffled by the hood, perhaps she could hear that something was wrong...<br/><br/><em>It would take a Perception check against DC 20 to do so!</em>