Oh, don't say that. If I could survive, you might be able
to. I just need to figure out how many fucking dice to roll.
I want you the same amount. Woud I know right? That just hurts,
That just hurts your feelings. Seventeen dice there, eighteen. It's a
maximum five. Remember you're the DM. You listen. You don't have to
show, you have to show any dis you rolls. All right, we're
gonna take you have some fun. Jazz it up rollers, sick dice just
for the el of it. Let's do it. We're gonna take three doom
away. I'm helping. There's less doing that. Oh god, it's it's
a symbiotic relationship. Sixe you give it doom, I take the doom away.
We're good, all right, so we're starting off with five successes.
Nice silence is deaf. Sorry, No, it's fine. It's it's we
called dramatic tension. This is what we call it. He's just got another
fucking dice pool. He's got a roll. I don't know. It's fine,
it's not fine, it's all fine. Calls still up and so's Phedro
will scrape you off this thing's tail and drive you back to show you have
armor. What is your what is your torcho armor? My soak or my
armor is dose two? Okay, so you take ten points of damage to
your vigor and that's two wounds, isn't it. That's two wounds. Yes.
I can sacrifice a piece of armor to remove a wound. Yes,
you can. I choose where I what I sacrifice from. Now, this
thing hit you in the torso to be by chest piece. Remember, sacked
armor can be repaired. I can repair that for you. We're taking one
wound. I'm sacrificing my torso armor. All right. Now for the interesting
bit, there are no effects on this. You are a lucky boy,
I am. This attack has the stunning quality that wasn't really bad if I
was under water. Yeah, there's no effects. But I will have you
again, since your underwater, make a discipline test. See if you can
hold your breath while this thing just beats the shit out of you. We
are spending another fortune point on that one. Do you do three successes?
Three successes? Very nice? All right? You can put one momentum in
the pool if you'd like. I will do that, all right. Ricardo
manages to somehow impossibly hold his breath as thing just delivers a crushing blow.
There's the spiny ridges that make up the structure of the tail. Actually,
just rip your torso armor, open your chest armor. Yeah yeah, it's
not going to be doing you any favors until it is repaired. That's fair
enough. You are like knocked back so much mud is kicked up in the
water that you have no idea where this thing is. Now, that's not
I was not to say. I was not playing on fighting it anymore,
if at all possible. Really, So I did my main job, which
is get an octamer out of its mouth. Now, it's just that can't
I survive getting short? That's the real question? All right. Well that
is the end of the turn. So it is the beginning of the new
turn to order, okay, and I am immediately going to spend doom.
I thought that this thing can take its action immediately. This fucking tie over
here. Who saw that coming? Yeah, fucking three month, Chapter seven,
page thirty five. It is the fourth orge flies, So therefore I
must stay free. Now, everybody gets to stay free, all right.
So you're in the murk, You're tumbling around, some air gets knocked out
of you. So you can tell by the bubbles which way way up.
Okay. As you're starting to like get agency over your body back after that
massive hit, and you're like feebly trying to move your arms, you feel
a surge of current as something massive passes underneath you, right under your feet.
Those of you that are top side. You're actually out of range to
be affected by this mechanically, but you see a massive churning in the water,
and it gives you an idea of just how big this thing is,
and it instill's terror within you. I dropped two more ado on this,
says the feeble question from underneath the water? Can I parry the fish?
You cannot parry a threatened attack. Fuck, I can't purry a fish.
That's bullshit. Why is it always bullshit when other people can't do what they
want to do? But when it's grappling the boats, suddenly everyone's all hard.
Everyone. Was anyone actually able to grapple the ghosts? No? Yeah,
they were damn all right. People can grapple a ghosts, I mean
that bare minimum. Other ghosts can grapple ghosts. Welcome to Corey's Pepperoni Barbecue.
We're ghost grappling is the American pastime. Three success is all right.
If you would like to take your defend reaction, Ricardo, you may make
a difficulty three discipline test. Tell me you have some fortune left. I
do. I was gonna spending on something else, but I think I think
that ship is sailed. I'm also spending amentum. Spending it on not dying
is always worthwhile. Yes, no, I'm a I'm in a bad place.
So we're gonna spend the momentum. Well on three dice. I spent
a fortune. WHOA, okay, so that is two three, five successes.
So there's two momentum, five successes. All right, so there's two
momentum. Cool? Can I spend that on me thing like getting far away
in this instance since it's a defend reaction. No, there's nothing you can
really, okay, so we'll just use the pool. Oh that's fine,
all right, five successes. Let's see how much that protects you? Prepare
you? But I feel damaged? Ah, excellent. Oh he has a
doom spend on this attack. That's right. If you guys want to give
him more doom. Are you fucking kidding me with this? We're gonna drop
this sixth doom. Socks you you gave him one fifteen doom when we started
the session for the res he was blowing that shit immediately, no matter what
fucking doom you gave him. Yeah, you could give him even more.
He could be at five Right now, Corey is acting like me at the
blackjack table right now, just fucking doubling down. Every fucking I don't want
people to die, spends twenty doom. I see two fours and three.
Every single other dies in effect. All right, So my deep friend sucks.
It's me daddy. Do you have any mental soak it's called courage?
Well no, but you don't courage? Yeah, yeah, you actually have
to invest in mental soak. It's not something that you get from stats.
It's a fee, right or something like that. It's a feat you can
buy off the discipline skill tree. Yeah I don't got that. I have
three. Why don't you have any? You have something that gives it to
you, Okay, all right, So this thing surging underneath you, you
can actually feel one of the face feelers likes your leg as it passes underneath
you, and it just triggers priamble animalistic fear in the rat brain of course,
Yes, you stake five points of damage. Do you resolve pool?
And you have one trauma marts? Yeah, trauma is the mental equivalent of
a wound. We're gonna say until further notice. You are afraid of swimming
in murky water, like definitely afraid? Oh you mean the thing that's all
the funk around us? Nice? All right? I imagine Ricardo wants to
take his turn first in the turn order. I'm going first, I do.
Do I have to make it? Alright? Sorry? Did all that
momentum get used up? There's nothing for the pool? Right? Yeah?
Yeah? Yeah, here, okay, okay, okay, cool um,
Yeah, I'm going as fast as I fucking can shore. Well, actually,
no, we got three successes. You've got two successes there. Blah
blah blah. Yeah, no, you you can put the two in the
pool. That's fine, you can put the pool. Okay, but yeah,
I'm swimming to where the land is as fast as I possibly fucking can.
All right, Yeah, you breach the surface and give me an athletics
test. Let's see if you can get any faster than you would normally be
able to move. Okay, we are spending The distance is significant here,
so we're going to call this. This is like a triple zone transition to
get to the shore. So we're going to call this a difficulty three athletics
test. I spend three momentum or is it only two months? If you're
trying to roll extra dice, you could spend up to three, which is
which gives you five dice to roll, which is what I'm doing because I'm
out of fortune. Wow, to give everybody what the deal is? That
was a fifteen two and eighteen A fifteen and eighteen. Nice, you got
a success. You did terrible in your panic? Yeah anything. You are
not swimming efficiently. Here's a lot of thrashing and splashing and cursing. Yeah,
I'm not in my right mind. I not fun, not even yeah,
it's not even like coherent. It's just like sputtering and like almost hyperventilating.
Not good swim material. You are able to close three quarters of the
distance, or I should say two thirds of the distance, because that would
be your normal movement. Coop, get to know sweet, all right,
so Vega is splashing his way towards the rest of the party. He is
not there yet. What order the rest of you going to act in and
what are you gonna be doing? How can we help him? I mean,
you could swim out to him and try to help him, but he
is panicking right now. That's kind of why I want to help him.
Never try and help a panicking person that's in the water. Well citations,
yeah, Phaedra does have a flotation device, gets the driftwood. So okay,
So we're all on the shore now, right, You guys are at
the point where you're able to stand up. You are still in the water.
Everybody can make it to shore next turn, assuming they don't get eaten
by the fish. Okay, So I'm just gonna look to Call and say,
hey, can you get him to shore? Don't eat silence. It's
a no from Call. It seems yeah, it seems like, oh there
we go. All right, all right then, and um, I'm gonna
help transition Octomer to like just call him a piece of flotsam too, Okay,
I feel like that was a thing. No, okay, oh yeah,
he just swam. So like I'll transfer Octomer to Call's like shoulder and
turn my my driftwood brige board around and kick back to try and meet Ricardo
halfway. All right, you actually have enough movement to get all the way
to Ricardo, and he still cursing and sputtering if he get too no,
no, it's gonna get you too. Yeah, I'm like, I'm not
coherent. Shut up, go back, just bitch, slap him and throw
him on your shoulder like a sack of potatoes. Oats. God, when
was the last time any of us had potatoes? That sounds great? One
would imagine before we entered the swamp Call and October. You guys are just
gonna get to shore, right, Yeah? Yeah, he is only one
zone, so you could still theoretically do something after you get to shore.
If there was a thing you wanted to do. It's collapsing onto my good
arms so I can lay down on my back in action. Yeah I do
that, all right. It costs one doom. Fuck you, I stand
and shimmer ship of busting your chops. You've got your me already. You
curse it, man, you collapse. Collapsing is free, free, like
the fourth of July. Free. The fuck call is going to stand there
in stony silence. Imagine, Oh, okay, you can get the bow
out. Okay cool. If this thing comes close up to the surface,
you could take a shot. That's everybody, right, We hit everybody now
right? Yes, yes, the fish went first. It is the top
of a new turn order. Can I counsel panicking Ricardo? Not while you're
car doing what you're doing? Damn one another athletics check my friends, yes,
okay from both of us. Yeah, difficulty, it's only going to
be one on this one. And we'll say that Pedra is going to make
it and Ricardo is healthy. Okay, so the second Pedro roll three dice.
Ah, that's how it works. Okay, okay, I'm taking no
chances. I'm spending a fortune on this one too. Here, so three
dice with Ricardo's help, and oh boy, I hope that gets us out
of the water with like was that seven? Six? Yeah, you spent
a fortune, so that starts you with two, three four. It's a
lot five six Yeah at six apparently I just kick, but like correctly instead
of panic thrashy style. I'm like some kind of motor boat person. Yeah,
I mean, I guess you could add four momentum to the pool,
or you could add two and work faster. I like the latter, yes,
please, thank you? All right, So two people kicking together Interestingly
enough, benefited by the swirling currents from the fish swimming around, you are
able to get that driftwood right into the shore and everybody staggers onto the ground.
As you catch your breath and assess your damage, you could see a
water outside the shoreline churning as the creature swims back and forth, back and
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