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Broken Lords. Thank you bad news, Jordan. We're in that life already
read. One part of me also thinks we're overthinking this cross into the bog
thing. I could see by your stunned silence that I am far off course.
Yeah, why not make it easier on ourselves? They don't have to,
right Like, we could spend a little bit of extra time check out
us, find a good spot to try and enter a thick shit shitty thick
this dummy thick fog. So the dank bog is now protected by a dummy
thick thornwall. Is that what we're here? And here let's head west and
clap some cheeks. Boys, you stick your hand in there and see how
you feel about it. Ricardo is taking the least resistance, all right,
do you have a better idea on do you have a better visual on all
this shit? Now? Yeah, it only took us like eighteen sessions to
get here. Don't worry about it. For I was wondering, this is
the first time we've witnessed the map of what we've done. We've been dispeareded
of the mind at the internet. A rough map. It's not accurate because,
like you guys haven't been like trying to map shit on Nana leaves or
anything like that. Were focused on getting the fuck out of here. This
is Optimer's mental map, right. The only thing I was really asking about
was this big scar right here. Yeah, and that's the ravine. So
that's what you snuck up to the scout peering down in it. You see
fog like a couple hundred feet down. Okay, so that's that's a bad
ravine, yeah, fogg right, yeah, okay, miss or like yeah,
like spooky scary bullshit down there. Probably a source wor jerking off into
a call drin or some shit. Yikes, you're gonna have to cut that
out more than three point keep it, keep it. If he's only got
three point a fluid out into the chamber, he's not dealing. We got
a small ball wizard over here. Look at the situation you found yourself in
and tell me this is not just riddled with tiny dick energy, because it
is. The tiny dick energy is different from a small ball wizard. Okay,
what are you dealing with the cult? You gotta know exactly what you
walking into. Okay, the classification of petty magicians continues. This is very
important information. Yeah, no, this is this is critical information for people.
You're gonna update the wiki later. Smallball Wizard, this is right,
broken Lord's Lord, small ball Wizard, equal sign, cross out, equal
sign immigrating south. I realized the BAP was extremely close to the top of
the page, so I moved it down so i'd have more room to update
it, because you're like a little over a third of the way through,
and I might need to make this page bigger. I see, I see,
is October able to get close to the edge of the ravine? Is
there anything like the sound of a waterfall or the sensation of air like rising
up to meet him? Are you projecting these questions to my boy October.
Psychically, yes, yes, I well, okay, I can't do it
Psychically, I guess I am thinking of it more as like as him about
it when he makes his return to Camp Fair. I would like to ask
him about the ravine later. I'm curious about maybe there's a river down there,
and then if so, what could that mean? Like, I just
feel like if I've traveled around, then maybe maybe I've seen something like it
was. I don't know, maybe big. Maybe I'm gonna take a time
headed back, Okay, because I'm more interested, I guess in the dummy
thick thornwall. So I'm just gonna kind of make my way back. Along
with that, I need Vega to give me another When you want to try
and make two more swords, what do you want to do? I think
two more swords will will suffice for now. All right, give me another
craft project, all right, Vega can attempt. Normally I wouldn't even make
you roll for this, but because you are trying to do it with you
know, not the week and a half that you had last time. Right,
we're trying to be on the move on this one. I can get
to add an extra twenty. So spending the momentum on the roll four on
this it's going to be a difficulty too, because you're under a time limit.
Look at that three successes. You want to plug that back into the
momentum. Oh yeah, let's keep the party turning. Let's keep that bank
rolling. Okay? Is it one for one? Oh? Yeah? Right,
because it's a difficulty too, you said, right, yeah, perfect,
All right, I have two more swords. They are not as scary
as the shitty gator stone s word Brackett's croc brackets croc. Yes, all
right, so ocaver, you make your way kind of straight north for where
you were, and you see there's enough of a gap in the thorn wall
right about where I moved your token too, that you think you could get
the party in there? Okay, So no cutting required. No, it
would be very very difficult for you to hack your way. But you go
in maybe ten fifteen feet, being careful to look out for any strange animals
or monsters. Yeah, and it does look like there's actually paths inside of
here. That's bad. Okay, So I've I've scouted out a nice ambush
location. I'm gonna head back and collect the party. Yeah, it's a
little too chaotic to be a nice ambush location. Maybe like a you know,
like a second or third choice ambush location. I mean maybe. I
guess that depends on what's going to ambush us. To you, it looks
like game trails in there, although what game can you're not exactly sure how
they formed. Yeah, what game likes walking around in a dank bog Well,
we're talking about the shitty briar town where you're her currently, right,
But like, who's gonna make a game trail to the edge of through thorned
Valley to shitty bog down and then just turn around and thinks trying to escape
a dragon? They'd have to have jumped over a fucking ravine and walked like
five miles through the woods. Am I reading that wrong? Heybe? I
don't know. I mean, it's not infeasible that other creatures have taken the
same path we took, made some conclusive that we did. It's true,
and you're not wrong to be paranoid because you're in a shitty wizard valley where
bad things are about. Non paranoid people die to pecks every year, all
right, Like I said, it's time to go collect the boys and show
him the door to the bog. October comes back and he's able to get
you guys to that gap in the thorns pretty much around dusk of the current
day. Do we really want to enter it dusk? No? All right,
forgive the ruptness of my answer, but no, I don't want to
do this in the dark. If possible, well we'll spend one last night
south of wall. Stop laughing, it's what it's called the canonical name.
I'm trying to stay in character full. October gets excited whenever he sees dummy
thick thorn walls. More than one starts grofusing. Back home, they called
it the dubby thick thorny Explorer. The regular called thorn Diver like what I
needed to allow to talk about the borderlands? Right, this is the kind
of shit they talk. You sit around the fire. One of you was
like, do you hear about thorn diver? What do you do? Go?
My palm is thornly nestled in my fornhead. Right now. This is
called urp sunshine. Look it up. Okay, sure, bunny, what
you say? So we're making camp. So we've scouted this cave. It's
dusk. I imagine we're getting a fire going and discussing what else Optomer has
seen around these parts. Maybe not, Maybe we're just eating and being miserable.
We've been here for four weeks. I think there's a little bit of
that, And I guess I gestured towards the ravine area, like anything interesting.
That's way one hundreds of feet A lot of fog at the bottom.
Fog. Yep, could you hear anything? Nope? Yeah, definitely was
like eerie quiet around there. You're not sure if that was like peripheral dragon
territory quiet or if it was something specifically about the ravine though if it was
described to me as like a hundred feet down, there could have been a
fucking band playing at the bottom and I wouldn't have caught too too much of
That's true. Fog is water, and I just feel like it wouldn't just
be the air. What would that mean. I'm going to mull over what
I know about the physical science or equivalent thereof of this world. To be
fair, dragons aren't supposed to be here either, and yet one was going
to eat us about a week ago. Oh sure, And I think I'm
just more wondering is there water nearby, and if so, where is it?
Well? Optimer did find some water sources to drink from. He was
able to fill up your water skins. Yeah, but so far there's been
a lot of water in this valley. You had the giant system of lakes.
I was thinking, remember, like right behind the canyon there was a
well. Yeah, it was like it was hotter here. It was a
sweetwater spring right here right And you mentioned it's hotter, did you. I
thought I heard You're right, it's hotter up north, further north. You've
been going since you got past the plateau, it's slowly been getting hotter.
It's hot enough to be unpleasant right now out, but not stifling yet.
Maybe because of the it is hotter up here. If it was like a
like a drinking well or run off from the ravine forming a pool, would
it not mean more likely to fog. I just wondered that there isn't a
river all the way down there. If you'd like to climb down and check,
be my guest. I'll spot you with the you know I would.
I don't see myself succeeding though. That's the only problem same unfortunately, and
my calculations. The only way out of this damned valley is still north.
I guess the only problem is I would not want to risk going all the
way back to east to rup around to the other side of the ravine or
north of the ravine already, that's what I mean, like rat back east
and south and then go back west and then have to end. Then if
that's a dead end, then they'll have to go all the way back here.
We do that trip all over again. What if it keeps getting hotter
as we go, then we'll get the get used to being uncomfortable. Yeah,
I'm already uncomfortable. We have to pray for more water too, then
no way to drink one from the bag either. Cool. You're an alchemist,
right, Yes, I've been keeping my eyes out for opus trees,
but not much luck on them. Have you had to purify water in your
line of work? Yes, then perhaps if we're desperate, may not be
great, but maybe we can buy some bog water if we have to.
I know I don't like chunky water either. There's there's a pregnant, pregnant
silence after that. Maybe perhaps a worst case, an absolute worst case.
Maybe, of course, of course, a silk sheet would be great.
Yes, yes, it would. I wish for steel myself. We're gonna
be going that fanciful I could do with my home. Say I do miss
it. We just need to cross this bog will be one step closer.
I'll take first watch. You guys, get some sleep, be up from
middle. We'll do Col. You're good for last? Yes, all right
until tomorrow. Good night, Octomer, m all right, first watches all
me? Then, all right, give me an observation test. Yeah I
can. I got one success? All right, All seems quiet, good
enough for me. I will wake up Ricardo and I will try to catch
what sleep I can. Mister Vega, give me an observation test. All
right. I will use the momentum that he didn't use, because I'm a
greedy, greedy boy, and I'm gonna have a low observation. Everything seems
quiet, And now for third watch. With zero momentum in the tank was
zero momentum and zero past successes, we have the dancing barbarian himself. Give
it up, ladies and gentlemen for Col. Oh right, we got success
and succeeded. Impressive. It's because you hyped them up like that. I'll
be sure to do so forever into the future. Absolutely, everything is nice
and quiet all night long. In the distance, once or twice you hear
the shuddering pounding steps that might be the dragon, but they are far far
away. It is now early morning. Everybody wakes up. Food and drink
are distributed, and we'll do a survival check from oktimer, just to make
sure that we keep our one week supply before you go in there. Right
top off, as it we're we're gonna be going into the dank bog,
I'd prefer to have full rations. I'm gonna use both of my skills reduce
it to difficulty zero. Yeah, because I'm a weirdo, I'm gonna roll
bones that generate one extra momentum. I guess you do see some more ingredients
you could get phaedra. I like that. Actually a lot ingredients can be
exchanged for what we need later, so I'll take all right, another two
ingredients phaedra A pleasure doing business video. With that, it's time for our
good guide Thorndiver to breach the thorn wall yet again. I'm gearing up.
Do I have to roll anything to breach the dummy thick thorn wall? Not
yet, Okay, would you like backup? I would love backap all right.
As prepared as you can be to pass this bizarre thorn wall and make
your way into the dreaded swamp, It is finally time to pick up things
and move time, perhaps to make it one step closer to escaping this wretched
place. With no small amount of trepidation but a healthy dose of hope,
our heroes breach the gap in the thorn wall and make their way into shadowed darkness.