Thread by @snickelsox

Finally got to throw this scary thing at my players #Retroverse recently. They were on a mission to hunt down some b-ugz and this thing began stalking them as well. They kept running into/destroying its invisible art, which made it angry. It ended in tears...
#DnD #pokemon

They found themselves blocked by an invisible wall in a small canyon created by broken spaceships in the Boneyard. They had some spray paint and colored the wall green but couldn’t figure out the geometric shapes on it. One player decided to smash through it, toppling the wall.

Buried under a pile of invisible/green prisms the Dire Mr. Mime used some trickery to steal the adventurer. The party then remembered they had glasses that granted true sight and noticed another wall behind them. They had been trapped but didn’t even know it.

I described the wall as having a fractal rainbow pattern, with your eyes focusing on a single part making the pattern just as complexly in one spot as it was across the whole. It also had an intentional degradation of the golden ratio, creating negative and right angles instead.

While this was going on we cut away to the “stolen” player. They had been placed into an invisible tiny house and this giant fiend sat outside it, just silently staring in at them. After some time it becomes clear it’s not actively hostile and they share some soup together.

The mime began making an invisible statue of the stolen player as they “talked” together. After a little bit, the b-ugz show up and attack the mime, causing it to smash part of the invisible house and run... right into the rest of the party not very far away.

It was a dual battle then as the stolen player tried to take on several b-ugz alone in an invisible mini house and the party attacked this fearsome entity that took one of the their friends. Neither knew what the other was doing. The mime defends itself but eventually falls.

Right as the stolen character flees the b-ugz (a crit fail nearly killed them), they come around the corner and see their new friend cut to bits by one of their party members getting a double crit against it. They kill the b-ugz as all the invisible structures dissolve.

Only one statue remained, one of the stolen player and the mime, embracing as friends; each one held one half of a hand heart shape. Just as the stolen character is seeing this (through glasses), it begins to fall apart. He does all he can to stop it but it’s sand in his fingers.

He’s putting anything he can into his bag but it just fizzles away. Through some magic he’s able to save a small vial of “invisible” rainbow sand. The party just sees him clawing at the air, digging in the dirt, and crying. It was a good place to end the session.

Anyway, go give @LluisAbadias some love for the art on this thing and then shout Pokémon names at him that you want to see as Diremon. I know that’s his favorite. 😜
#DireEmAll