This is what happens when you lose a fight with a toilet. Ahem. |
This cold started last Tuesday, and Monday night I was up all night coughing, so I figured I'd go to the doctor yesterday and see if there was anything they could do about it. I got the general "bronchitis" diagnosis and a script for azithromycin and figured I'd go into work for the afternoon.
Except I apparently failed some kind of fortitude save and/or a constitution check, because when I got to work, I lasted about a half hour before I was in the bathroom throwing up. I hit my glasses with the toilet seat, and I was expecting the bruise, but on the inside of the eye where the nose pad of the glasses hit, not where it actually bruised. (Taking the antibiotics at the same time as the Dayquil may have been a bad idea.)
You remember my post about jargon? Yeah, I spent the whole drive home from my meeting this morning debating just which gaming scenario most accurately represents the event. I mean, the failed fortitude save or constitution check is kind of obvious, since I got sick, and I managed to throw up in the toilet, and not on myself, so I must have made some kind of secondary constitution and/or dexterity check. But I do have an Amy-Winehouse-eye-makeup shaped bruise going, so the toilet came out ahead on some roll.
Possible scenarios:
- The toilet got (and succeeded on) an attack of opportunity when I initiated the grapple.
- The toilet was trapped, and I either failed the reflex save for the trap, or there was no save, and the trap beat my armor class. (Given the nauseated state, my armor class probably had a -2 penalty already due to loss of dexterity bonus.)
- I failed a general dexterity check to operate the toilet seat.
- The toilet won the initiative roll and got to attack first. (I did, after all, manage to throw up in it still.)
- Edited to add - While making an unarmed melee attack, fumbling dealt me nonlethal damage.
Really, though, I'm just glad I didn't break my glasses or, worse, knock the lens out and into the toilet. So apparently I didn't entirely fumble the rolls, or I'd have had to pick my glasses out of the vomit or something.
Just how high IS your fever, Boss?
ReplyDeleteHaha, sadly I haven't run a fever this whole time.
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