Shattered Honor – Part Sixty-Nine
Chapter: Season Ten
Burg is going to SMAAAAAASH!
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OSHA? Is that the local workplace safety association?
Occult & Sorcerous Hazards Authority.
If it’s magical, and it’s dangerous, they’ve got something to say about it …
There’s a fantasy novel in there somewhere…
“Saruman? There’s someone at the door to talk to you about environmental damage…”
Probably a out of game reference to America’s favorite federal agency.
For the non-Americans reading this, any working American will be pretty familiar with OSHA as many job trainings will explicitly reference them as well as it being required by law to display posters like these in a conspicuous place where workers can see it (usually the break room).
I like Pax’s backronym better though, lol.
Oddly enough, that ubiquitous poster put me in the hospital for 3 days, once.
I worked for a bank in the check processing center. There were cubicles in most of the room for hand sorting and adding, then a square section in the bottom left corner with 6 computers for entering, verifying, and submitting. Everyone took turns on the computers, assigned by day of the week, and rotated computers weekly.
One computer was separate from the other 5, on the other side of the cubicle ‘walls’ that separated the tech area from the rest of the room. Over this lone computer was a very large, very heavy, very ornate antique walnut frame that displayed the aforementioned mandatory OSHA poster. On the other side of that wall was the stamping room, and specifically, the largest stamping/ sorting machine.
One day, a few months after I started working there, I was seated at the lone computer doing data entry for my assigned people. I’m flying along, getting into my typing groove, when I hear a very loud quiet *skreeeeeeee* from above my head. I look up just in time to see the frame pause for a millennium long second before the lone nail that had kept it imprisoned on the wall for years slid gently free from the plaster…. and crashed down on top of me. Given the length of the frame, the height from which it fell, and the angle of my doomed head, the top of the frame hit me squarely above the eyebrows before the glass shattered on the monitor and the frame and I collapsed to the floor in a decidedly inelegant and unprofessional heap.
I woke up a few seconds later covered in broken glass, wood, and plastic, and one completely undamaged OSHA regs poster. My supervisor, noting my pain, confusion, and blood, took a picture, made the magnanimous decision to let me clock out without penalty, and let the IT guy drive me 6 blocks to the hospital.
I had several lacerations on my face and scalp, a fairly severe concussion, and a few hairline fractures to my skull. When IT guy explained what had happened to the ER doc, he didn’t believe him. When I was finally coherent enough hours later I confirmed IT guys story, and IT guy returned with a picture of the poster in its frame from a month before this and the picture of me taken directly after. I was kept in the hospital for 3 days to make sure that the concussion wasn’t more severe than initially thought and that there were no hidden bleeds. Starting around 8am the first morning I was visited by pretty much every doctor and intern in the hospital so they could hear me tell my tale and snicker as they walked out.
Soooooo, that’s how OSHA regs put me in the hospital for 3 days with a concussion.
I don’t know if Burg has any levels in Barbarian, but with that face in panel 6, he should.
And I was going to say that 5d8 is a lot of damage, but that’s the same as a baby white dragon’s breath attack, though Burg would have passed that DC. Here’s hoping that attack has a recharge roll.
Yea but that is a cr 2 creature and while cr is not the best way of calculating encounters I would say with neither of them going down from 28 damage and neither being a dwarf I would say they are atleast level 3 probably level 4 since the front line fighters do not seem to have extra attack. So probably looking at a dc of 14 maybe 15.
A Roguerian!!!!!
I REALLY gotta wonder.
What level are these characters, their damage seems low for how much damage they have been taking. Personal thought thats all. I mean I swear that Burg has taken at least 50 already and is still kicking. Meaning he has some levels in Fighter/Barbarian/Ranger to have enough for that.
My guess is that they are at LEAST level 5. As Annabelle had a +5 on her Insight way back at the start. Meaning either she has +3 Proficiency or +3 Wisdom (Assuming Insight is a Proficient skill of hers.) This is also backed up by the fact that she also has 2 levels in Rogue to not have a second d6 for her sneak attack yet has cunning action.
I’m betting there is some HP houserule or something
Clobberin’ time! 😀
Also “Beatin’ Club” is the name of my new nightclub with mosh pit/combat arena!
(Sorry, got that stuck in my head on the last panel and couldn’t get rid of it!) 😉
Annabelle and the terrible, horrible, no-good, very bad dungeon.
I like that Burg talks about him in the third person when he rages.
THAT’S IT! I’M GETTIN’ ME MALLET!
You know, you could also maybe do well selling TOKENS for virtual tabletops, like Roll20. 🙂