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Lords. Thank you. This is really these I'm putting a formal comple that's
four successes. Four successes. All right, hey listen, we spend a
one minute to get him Amentum you love this? Yeah, I was gonna
say, if you would like, you could put that back of the pot.
There you go, all right. Either you slowed down enough to catch
your breath and that stitch faded, or the sudden realization of like dragon proximity
night in your adrenaline to a level that you could start running again and you
take off into the woods in an unknown direction. Perfect right. Oh this
hurts this, This hurts us greatly. I mean that, or have fun
with the dragon. No, no, no, you, I'm not saying
that Cole made the wrong move. I am saying that it's dark and the
night is scary. Yeah, it's scary. So let's have a dip back
to the other group for a moment. The loosely affiliated group is October,
still whistling his little hard out. Probably yeah, until I find someone.
Sporadic calls all right, Difficulty one observation test from both Vega in Phedra.
Okay, I'm using the fucking momentum again. I'm sorry, Pedra, are
you unskilled in observation? I am at zero zero target number eight, big
flexen. Use the momentum. Use the momentum. Thank you. Oh yeah,
you're Corey laughing in the other room. But it's not getting recorded,
beautiful applications. You guys have been rolling nineteens and twenties, the roll twenty
things. We're playing a different system today. I mean no, no,
it knows exactly what it is for me. Yeah, the DM dice are
really real today. Oh my god, I get two successes, I will
bank one of them. All right. What's that like? Being able to
bank some success? All right? So Pedre, you hear the bird call
again, and you realize that you were not properly oriented on it. Oh
great, does it sound farther away? It just sounds like you were traveling
maybe parallel instead of perpendicular. That makes any sense? I try to correct
immediately, all right, Vega, this most recent bird call almost startles you
because it sounds like it might be within a couple hundred feet of your current
position. Hey, who is it? Anybody? October? You do hear
that? All right? I'm gonna stop moving slowly and just break into a
slight jog at him. Then, Vega, here's sudden movement in the bush
nearby. Who is it? Me? You fool? Shut up? I
can't tell if it's the peace or nuts. I'm like, you're okay,
That's why I'm making bird sounds. Where's the rest of them? We got
split up when we all ran for it. We need to find the others.
Yeah, alright, stick with me at least. Yeah, that's the
plan. All right, I continue my bird sounds. Bird up, bird
law is in effect right now, and hold you. That's like William call
right, that is exactly how that goes. Agan is better? All right,
that's much better. I am a coolologist and I will say that as
exactly books. Yeah, wouldn't Snidley be the cholologist? No, No,
we need competence in this department. Oh all right, shoot my man sniling
dead in the street like that. I don't know. I'm not gonna shoot
my man. Dragon's gonna beat us to it, all right. So what
happens to the colologists, Well, he's about to get a colonoscopy from a
drag. I didn't need to hear that. You didn't need to speak those
words out loud. Bro oh shit, all right, so um calls running
through the dark, and he be another observation check. I guess I'm gonna
be using that momentum. This is probably a good use of that momentum.
What was the difficulty of that check? The difficulty was one on this one
and one get one. All right. So there is a gap in the
trees that you pass under, and there is a little ray of the dying
light comes down. It shines upon a bush ahead of you, The bushes
maybe chest high to you, and that light just glinted off something inside the
bush, and you freee like dead run you like looney tune, skid to
a stop and you see glowing catlike eyes in the bush in front of you.
Oh he's fucked. Oh no, scratch fever, cal. You don't
have to outrun the dragon. You just have to outrun the cat and the
dragon. And well, no, listen, once he gets the cat,
he's probably facated. How much could he really eat? Like, come on,
watch this dragon be a vegetarian? Oh my god. If he's smart
and he just wanted to invite us to his house for like te or some
shit, I'm done. Yeah. I don't think we're gonna have to count
on that ship, buddy. Let's see. I still hear the dragon behind
me, right, Nope? Oh, well that's that's something that is indeed
a singular thing. I'll give you that out of the frying pan into the
slightly smaller frying pan. Well, it's time to get into a rumble in
the jungle, isn't it Bungle in the jungle. It's about to be a
bungle in the jungle. I think Accord twenty and it's a rule twenty and
their dice rolls for us. They could be bungle in the jungle. It's
very very bungle, big possibility. Bim Cole is going to have to h
yeah, I guess he'll He'll try continuing on and if that bush moves,
he's just gonna throw his axe at it. I feel like I'm that asshole.
DM and my party just cast a wish spell because I really fixated on
Snidley's wording of if that bush moves, if the giant tiger and the bush
moves, we're not worried about it. But if the bush man, yes,
if you're going to monkey's paw, the wish spell things all right,
So you take off, you're looking at this thing, and you peel off
to your right and start to run away, and the bush shutters and the
tiger that you saw all those days ago, he roughed out of it.
Oh that's not that's not the size. I was thinking, Oh no,
okay, yeah, that's good. Love. You throw your act that and
run like a bastard. Are you gonna throw your As he said, the
bush is moving, I said what I said, it looks like this time
for rumbles. Are you asking this tiger question? I'm asking this tiger question.
I guess all right, So since it's nighttime and you're running and you're
trying to hit a moving target with a throne weapon. I need you to
make a ranged weapon attack difficulty forre Okay, all right, I'm gonna be
using that momentum yep. Okay, that's a good start on what's a blue
You gotta complication? That's what That's terrible? Okay, man, I mean,
I know the Doom has been rather hunged. Are you also having a
fucking face turn on Doom? Now you're all in on Doom. I'm all
in on giving him doom. So you want to pay the blood debt?
Pepperoni's right now? Yeah, then this snidey is war. Oh my god,
lines have been drawn in the sand, and I know where you stand
as well. Along this hole manages to not be completely killed here. Yeah,
well the fortune toke it'll get you. So yeah, good luck winning
this game without spending any more of me. He's your Doom token. He's
uh, I can't get that far. He's mister fun. He's fun,
only lovable fun, having people like doom tones, you know what, Cory
Fish, Yeah, good job. What a great way to get us to
split the party because we would never do it otherwise. But now this is
like a wah, I'm gonna steal this ship for later use. All right,
I'm stared, terrified and alone in the dark. This is great.
It's just what I wanted. You're not alone. I'm with you. He's
completely alone in the dark and scared the fuck. That is why you guys
would die without me, because I think perpetually bend archer would shoot eat for
a distance. All right, speaking of things that are bent, you throw
that ax and you don't hit anything. Oh boy, it's gone forever now.
Oh no, well you could go pick it up, he could.
You just have to get past the tiger. Wait. Um, I got
four successes. Now it's my turn, said the tiger in the airplane.
I've had it with these motherfucking tigers and this motherfucking jungle. That's a lie.
I actually love tigers. Get enough, not well, listen, this
one's big, it's warm. You can keep me company under my roney blanket.
All right. So you throw your axe and this thing like takes a
short load to the ground leap and the axe flies through the air where it
used to be. So it props to one side and then charges you and
your shock. It puts its head down and with the full force of its
jumping sprinting massive body. It crashes straight into your rib cage and you go
part wheeling through the darkness her spear. Oh my god, you feel like
really dizzy. Drag yourself to your feet. You look around and the tiger
is five feet away from you. It is crouched very low. Its ears
are laid down. It's snarling and growling and looking at you. Its tail
is thrashing about wildly. Cole's gonna pull out the firework. I would like
to note that in the time it took you to get up, this thing
could have ripped your throat out. You do find that a bit odd.
As you're pulling your firework out of your back back details details right. As
the seconds drag on, it is still in that crouched attack position, but
it is not approaching you. Okay, now that coal can at least agree
in his head. But yeah, that's not usual. What to do though,
It lets out a bellow, rears up and slashes the air in front
of you. That's even more confusing. What is it trying to play catch?
Throw a firework at it and find out where? Is it just trying
to get you to leave? I mean I was already running away from it.
Well back up slowly and see what happens. Also wants one on one
fucking combat. Yeah, Cole is going to continue backing away from it.
Then with the explosive, it the ready do you back up? It shifts
forward, but it is maintaining a space. Only Coal actually had any idea
how animals behaved. He might be make sense of this, but he don't.
Is that true? Have you made a check for it? I could,
it would be Uh, it's unskilled. You ever had that moment where
you were facing certain doom and you had an idea on how you could deal
with it and you were like, you know what, I'm unskilled at that,
So I'm not gonna try. Yeah, yeah, I'll try that animal
handling then it's my default. Really, it's my default. That could have
been worse and no Complication'll take that, all right. First, you get
the free information, you're definitely sure this isn't normal animal behavior. And second
of all, you had some uncertain footing behind you. So you shift a
little bit to your right. It becomes slightly more aggressive and pivots to the
left until you are once again retreating in the original direction. I try going
in that direction. Then, okay, are you just still slowly backing away
in the direction. That didn't piss at all, keeping my eye on it.
Okay, It's ears swivel forward for a moment, and you see it
cock its head, and then they swivel back and lower down, and it
opens its mouth and slashes at you a bunch again near misses that definitely look
intentional. It's fur is kind of standing up now, and it's slashing and
rory more clovely. It looks up to its left and then looks back at
you, and it closes the distance between you significantly, still not actively attacking,
you know. I guess it's so fucking weird. I take a step
towards it. It smacks you with its paw, with its claws retracted,
and it knocks you to the ground like you were a baby. Okay,
old move, Let's see if it pays out for him. Really doesn't want
me to go in any direction other than the one that it's that you're backing
up in. Yes, yeah, it's just hurting you there faster. Okay,
So I'm going to continue in that direction. Then are you gonna keep
going slow? Are you gonna pick up the speed at all? I'm gonna
pick up the speed. Okay, it drops back a little ways. All
right, I'm gonna turn around and just not be backing up. I'll just
actually be going in that direction, kind of like at a jog. Yeah,
okay, back over to the other group. Padre can be one more
observation test. This one is going to be a difficulty zero. You don't
have to roll if you don't want to. Um do I attempt faith momentum?
Possibly our real problem is Pepperoni's. Yeah, that's up to you,
though. I wouldn't mind some juicy momentum. Yeah, but I'm still looking
at that hot zero zero target number eight combo. I would never blame you
if you play it safe. Yeah, I think I'm going to abscond from
rolling, but also make the bird call myself, or at least try to.
Oh. Okay, well, the call is at this point is nice
and loud, so it's pretty easy for you to figure out where it is
coming from. I guess give me a lower test to see if you can
accurately reproduce the call or get close enough. It is a difficulty one.
Okay, it sound like the bird call at all. I guess zero concesses
count met the brief. All right, so you guys call that's wrong.
Yeah, you guys hear very like an expert, like very nearly a human
trying to make a bird noise. Okay, most enough. This is why
we Cardo didn't try. It's literally like fifty feet away from you. Do
I hear a bird call back? Yes? I think you hear shuffling toward
you. Is not very far. Somehow you sense like chagrin in the answering
bird call, Like there's a little bit of a sigh quality to me.
Seems right, seems right. You come around a large tree and you find
two of your compatriots. Oh yeah, excites for so Rice? Have you
seen? You can see you're a friend shape. It's good enough for me.
I'm gonna lock that my memory banks for a later ambush, I mean
encounter. You see a friend shape in the distance, This is good enough
for all of us. We immediately put away our weapons and turned our backs
to our friend in an expression of love. F