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slash discord. Thank you, joy H. Were you all well? H?
Yes? Any more of them are there? I think we've taken them
all out. Are you all right? Yes? I'm fine down here.
Yes, I will need a couple of moments, so my course is quite
bad at the moment. It's nice sendence that down here. M I will
hobble my way down the stairs. I will help you down. The stairs
are rickety and worn, weather beaten. But you all descend the stairs again.
This well is about forty feet in diameter or so, and it is
obviously been tarnished by these effects of weather and such. But you did notice
that there was some blood on the stairs. And I think that Malvic was
the one that noticed that. If I'm not mistaken one of us in don't
this is out of character. I don't remember if I told the group and
not. I believe I said something of the blood. I knew of it.
Two yes, oh you found it. I determined it was very fresh
going the wrong way. It wasn't our little elf that ran with us,
the one dead one, the dead one. Well, if you all want
to continue, I will just waiting here for a couple of moments. Leave
you here all right, and I will go ahead, and I will please
a hand on my chest and cast a two action level one heel on myself
in order to remove my wounds. Heel me to full as I slump against
the wall to begin to refocus for a bit. Down at the base of
this well there is tightly packed clay soil. Stones along the eastern wall of
the well have been removed and replaced with a large, sturdy wooden door shut.
Uh. Yes, sorry, I just realized that that's not set up
properly on the map for you. That's all right, I can't see that
fie anyway. I would like to put my ear up against the door and
see if I can hear anything. Yeah, give me a perception check.
Twenty nine, twenty nine. Okay, you don't really hear anything, but
as you like, put your ear against the door, maybe you touch the
you touch the doorknob, you can feel there's like a little tension there.
Something is strange with this door. I don't hear anything, but I suspect
it maybe trapped or something might be up against it. I back up toward
the other wall. Hello, say, looking up at him, do you
have an eye for traps or anything like that, as Celia, Why do
you not? This is out of my perer view. He could probably maybe
do nothing. I think. Well, if it is a magical trap,
would you be able to tell Michael, yes, detect magic? That is
true. If anyone is good with locks and things, that could help.
I guess detect magic upon this dore focusing on the door itself. There is
no magic on that door, not magical. So if it is the trapidest
mechanical. Unfortunately I only have one method of opening doors. I back up
again. Well, I'll walk past and take out some lock picks without saying
much, and I can attempt to unlock the door of the lock pick and
possible if there's a hole for it. Yeah, absolutely so when you go
to like put the lock pick in, you realize that the door is actually
open. Oh well, I guess I'll put force on it in the door
slightly crack. Yeah, make me a fevery check please. Twenty six.
So as you just gently touch the door and try and like move it,
you realize that there is a wire that is connected on this side of the
door, and it is set up in a way where it's on both sides
of the door, and there's some tension there, and you've got this wire
on this side. But then you realize that you got a snagger from the
other side as well to stop something from happening. So is it every check
to notice that or to stop You've caught the wire on one side, but
you're gonna have to try and reach the other one as well. It is
trapped. Mm hmm. Make an attempt to disarm it. Let's stand back
if something happens, so I'll take the runs of the action. We will
be ready to heal you if it does shift. My eyes was the door
and take a deep breath, and I will attempt to disarm it. All
right, you need another thievery check. Eight Alvick, You sort of quickly
open the door and you try to grab the wire from the other side.
Uh, there's a moment where you you reach out to grab it and you
see that there is like a there's like a moment where you do a surelock
kind of situation, and you see where the wire is connected. You hear
the like the sound of a metal wire sort of like pinging as you're stretching
it, and then you see that there is what appears to be like a
netting holding a giant pile of scrap, and you quickly grab the wire and
you're holding both and sort of holding the door with your foot as you mently
sort of un attach the wires from the door. Extremely annoyed from my barbaric
feet. So you think I would normally just get frustrated and rip this door
off. But I think maybe anybody that's looking intent they will notice that I
have some sort of a nesse to it and take fried and disarminous trap.
And I think it's seat of my foot. I would use my tail in
this instance to balance it and finally unhook it. Someone doesn't want us down
here, and then I will slowly is it trap completely dissolved? It is
right? I will take the wire if possible. Is it like piano wires?
Is it? Is it like? Okay, it's like that would definitely
a thin metal wire. Yeah, I would definitely take the wire if it's
salvageable. Should be if I gently did it? Sure? Absolutely, no,
Probably it's probably like let's call it like eight feet long metal wire.
Well done, mother, hook. I didn't know you were so good with
your hands. I'll smer and I'm like till my head in the way of
like, come on, the door's open, but be cautious working in.
If they went through the trouble of making a double layered contraption both entering and
leaving, then I can only imagine what's inside here. The person that made
this trap is witty. One would think that they dissolved it from one side.
Open the door and make their fake quickly, very well, and I
will stand up and brushing my skirts off. Are you ready then? Do
we see any light sources up ahead? You do not. For anybody that
has the dark vision to see, you should be able to see a bit
in there. You can see a zigzagging path of packed dirt descending down this
ten foot high underground chamber. There is a some kind of banner that's hanging
from the ceiling. It's hard to see. Probably have to get closer.
I'll go first since I can see in the dark. That would advise allowing
either me or both of us and I's see you to scout out before there
is no light in there. Also, there seems to be some kind of
markings or cloth or some type hanging maybe noticeable to see what we're dealing with
before you go in. How about when we do go in as well,
we make sure that myself and a rage Talk are in the middle and both
of you are on a front and off link a Rosch talk near Oscilia,
meaning are you at the front or whoever is at the front if Oscilia is
going first, right, it's blood going under the door leading in. Yeah,
it uh sort of follows this path drips or drags a little bit of
both, like someone's dragging the leg almost that kindly unless we checked on this
blood, how old did we say it was? Was it fresh fresh?
Yes? It was fresh? Right? Do we see any inconsistency with the
size of the drops? Is it getting bigger towards the door? Is it
getting smaller towards the door? Smaller you mean, I think so going up
the stairs it would be Yeah, it'd be smaller. Okay, Oh,
so it's getting that the wound is getting worse as they travel deeper into here,
or they came from here and they ran outside. That could have been
either. M I advised to look at the walls for someone who started typically
chinger lean if they place a hand on the wall and some sort of place.
If this is trapped, then following the blood may help us or not.
Can I see the banner from here? I think you probably would have
to get a little bit closer. Right, Having watched Malvic with the trap,
did it seem like the type of trap that would take someone an extended
period of time to set? From what we could tell, I think just
make an intelligence or a thievery check. All right, both are the same,
So I will make an intelligence check. That is an eighteen. So
I think eighteen is enough to know that, Like, it's not a super
complicated trap. I think you would gather that it would be to startle potentially
not seriously wound something, but it would definitely make a lot of noise.
Yeah enough, that's what I was thinking, right, So it doesn't seem
like somebody would have said it if they were running away? Is the point?
So? Yes? All right? Excellent? Mmm? Most certainly something
wanted to become left alone here? Can I see what I see on the
map? Up ahead? I think I can make out the outline of a
table, some chairs. This might be a place of congregation, a meeting
place and secret. Yeah, you're not to go down figure out more out
here? We should probably go in now, be careful of the walls ground.
Is this sand down here? Clay? Clay? If there was one
trap, there would likely be another. Would you like me to scout out
of the head? Yes? Please? You're quieter than I am. M
right, I would do that. I would take I would take my steps
slightly in check for traps. Sure, make a perception check please for me?
In Melovic thirtie. Yeah, so you take your time, head on
a swivel, begin to you approach this winding path that leads downwards and h
before we do that? Is there a blood where I'm standing? Yeah?
Can I kneel down and sniffy? Sure of me? Survival? What are
you trying to determine? A cent? A cent? Mm hmm. This
is for tracking purposes correct. Okay, yeah, like a survimti. I
want to roll that natural one getting re rolled a natural one to a natural
twenty okay, uh, yes, you have the scent. Mm hmm.
Then I'll stay low to the ground and make my way. I guess it's
not fair when you moved through this old place on that. I'll just go
here first layer. Sure. Yeah, as you begin to move around,
you don't see any other traps that one on the door. You can,
I mean you can tell like if that went off. This room is big
enough that it would like echo and like create a lot of noise in here
if that if that trap went off, So it is very good that you
figured that out and managed to stop it. The the scent is definitely you
can see that. They're like at the at the bottom of this path.
There seems to be two different passages. The scent seems like it would come
from the upper passage. Okay, I'll go right here. I'll wave everyone
in. Oh actually, or say it would only be the one to see
it, but I'd wave to her just as a quick check. Who doesn't
have a dark vision because we would all know by now. Okay, I
don't, but I have light casts, which means I can't see more than
like twenty thirty feet. M I have low light vision, so I'm not
completely minded in the dark, but my light helps you see father. Then
all rights, probably not using it, but yeah, I would just wave.
I would wave to say to come in signals to be quiet. This
banner that's hanging down from the ceiling is kind of in between these passages on
the on the area over here. Mm hmmm, I'll come to about here
to try to have a better look at the banner. Okay, maybe as
far as here. Okay, that's thirty Make a society roll for me,
please, all right, hmm, I will reroll that. Okay, there
is a woman depicted on this banner. They look regal. They are.
It's a stylized image regal human woman in profile, wearing a crown and surrounded
by a halo of white light. For you, this triggers some memories,
uh, and that you would recognize this person depicted on the banner as Galfrey,
the former Queen of mendev and a popular icon in the Mendavian Crusades.
I will whisper this to Malvik, since he is closest. I will look
back at her and drug only because I don't know who that is. What
I was say sounds important. These people here might be associated with her,
or at least her legacy. I do not know if she was good or
bad, worshiped or not, and typically people in that type of nobility are
either corrupted or just knowing that she was popular. Do I know what she
was popular for? You didn't quit the role, but I will say that
you would remember that Queen Golfrey was kind of like a like a paladin who
worshiped Iomi day and was like an absolute monarch of men dev and like the
leader of the Crusades. As I relate this, I also say it might
not be a stretch to say we might experience individuals similar to those that we
found in the plaza. M over, eager sense of justice and good perhaps
to extreme extents. M yeah, show I keep moving, yes, and
very carefully moving towards them as well. I will slip behind that way.
I'm at the flank, gonna they move up that signal you are to come
forward very well. I also motion arash talk to go past me. Yes,
all right, and I will continue of the path and keeping the scent
in front of me. But I need to make more perception Jackson, No,
I okay, as everyone gets any other any other traps as you move
along right, as everyone gets closer, like I have their scent. There
seems to be two paths ahead. Yep, A path ascending path is where
they are where they perish. What do you think we go the other way
first, try to get some more information. If we're a direct hunt,
he can, but I'll stay at the effects of it right at the bind
justin gaze. Could also just be someone who's hurt. I'll turn slowly,
caution. It's a lot easier than hoping. If we find them, you
do what you must, but I would like to assess the situation first.
I will and I'll continue, or we'll go around just to save time,
and I will end here to keep a eye on both finds and allow the
passage for them to be able to look in this other room. Sure,
as you make it to the fork in the two passages along the northern passage,
you can see that there are some sort of tight further tunnels from the
passage, the southern passage opens up a little bit more to an open space.
There appears to be a long table surrounded by roughed carved chairs filling most
of that cavern. They seem to have the trappings of a Mendevian dining area
or celia. There are metal plates and small cups arranged on the table as
a fur meal. Empty pantry shelves fill an alcove that you can barely see
on the northern wall of that passage that room, and there are I think
some paintings on the southern oh mm hm, oh, this is certainly where
they stop. These are Mendevian. Mendevian utensils. I'd like to get a
closer look at the paintings. Sure you know, step inside. I'll step
to about here. Okay, there's four paintings. From what you can tell,
you can't really make them out too well from where you are. Uh,
I'm going to before she steps in, use my goggles of night,
which will give me dark vision for an hour. Okay, how is y'all
looking right now? Is anxious antsy? Or can that someone may be dying
or so? I'm quite antsy? I mean, I don't want anyone to
die unless they're trying to hit any of you. All right, I'll slightly
signed, Do you want to go check on them while they're watching. You
mean separate from you all, It's not really separating. I can see inside
there very easily. Right around the corner. Something to happen and they can
come running. So the blood trail was going in which direction that I have
their sin, I can find them easily. I cannot see quite well in
here. It is not the best idea for me to go alone, Nur
saying, well, and I had to go with you, all right,
let them bleed out. It is up to you. Yes, okay,
let's go now. Uh. Signal to the others and if they see if
they're paying more attention to the pictures, they won't see it. But if
they do see it and lead the way around the bin. But I were
going very slowly and cautiously, maybe even stealthily, because I don't want to
startle. I mean, if there's a Ben Davian, if they see me,
it might be very scary for them. I don't know how far into
the room is a Rosch talk at this point. Are you still next to
me? Yes, that was next to you before the room of the paintings.
All right, I'm going to grab you on the arm very quickly.
We're going to start ahead very quickly. If you hear anything, rotate to
us, all right and vice versa. All right, Yes, this is
soundwise too split. Perhaps we should move quickly rash talk, yes, very
well, call out if there is an issue, we will end. Yes,
I'll gather my skirts and try to carefully move with malvic Okay, malavik
Uh, give me a stealth jack. Twenty six. Okay, are Celia
you and Orashhawk begin to enter the room. Yes, okay, I'm ooman,
I'm stepping in. I'm just doing a sweep of detect magic. Okay,
I don't trust anything. There is no magic here that makes me feel
better. There are four paintings on the southern wall. Can they not be
paintings? No reason? They depict individually a flaming Mendevian pasture, a tranquil
town along a river, a blood soaked battlefield, and a somber looking tee
fling three quarter profile. I will take a society role from either of you.
Okay, that's probably a little better than I am. I'm plus eight.
Oh that's mine better than you than never mind, I will help you.
Twenty three twenty four. Very nice okay. You think that the tranquil
town along the river is probably referencing the Selen River, and the blood soaked
battlefield appears to be Sarkorean, which would put these paintings at a time period
before the world wound opened, with estimate maybe fifty gold a painting. How
dare you do this to me? They are old, a free world wound
old? M hmmm, they look valuable. M hm yes. Do you
think you could do your magic again and sell them? If I take them?
I certainly could, but I think we should first try to discern of
whom we are guests two and it's worth but afterwards if they have no inclination,
certainly we do not know if the blood leads in or out by the
way they may have been escaping, if it was the elf we found,
and if so, this is not a good place. If I remember correctly,
Whack you said the pantry shelf was empty. Yes, there's sort of
a little alcove on the northern side there that you can see that's just got
like an empty pantry. I'm going to check ahead of the path here.
Perhaps you can investigate the pantry. It looks empty, but there may be
clues Malvic and Yara. Would you go ahead and move over it a little
bit? I don't like the way you said that. Did you say move
over and move forward a little bit? Because you're stealthy? Do I have
to make a stealth check as well? That depends on you moving stealthily.
Yes? Absolutely? You think I'm just adoptions? Oh I am absolutely being
stealthy, darling. Don't you worry? Once you go ahead and make a
self check for me, then jingling and jangling all good. I do have
bracelets and stuff. It's like a bunch of Janitor keys. Yeah, like
that big were the keys a big ring? As we're going, I'm just
keeping this scent and in mind, and we're had a fork. I'll motion
to you are that there is another fork? Fucking folks in dammit? I
can feel good. Umbpanetry It assumes they were underground. Typically happens to where
the determines to be carved. Mhm uh. Not the any sign or anything
that indicate what each folk may be. I'll sniff the air and follow the
scent. Okay, move to where you want to move and moved right hair
to the fork. That's I have the scent wherever the scent is strongest,
is where I'm going to go. Seems like this scent went east or came
from the east to one of those okay, mm hmmm. Along this way
and then I'll notice. I just want to be able to look inside.
I don't want to get up on this person. I just want to see
if there's a body of a silhouette or something. I noticed that we're getting
further further from the group. M. Yeah, you don't really see any
body or anything. There's no life ahead with the Center's go Diva. We
are getting quite far away from the Yes, they might not hear us if
we help them. I can go ahead, you can go back if you
like. I am not leaving you in this situation. Especially, why do
you not trust me? I trust you. I do not trust other people.
You sure about that? Ooh, Malavik. I will place a hand
on your shoulder. Now, I will look you in the eyes. Weird
shit that you have been saying aside. I trust you. I do not
know what is going on with you, but we will bridge that topic another
time. Yes, m you are my friend. Now look down and briefly
not in I'll turn back and motion towards our go forward, and I'll be
at your backside very well, and I will make my way to try and
get the others. Okay, okay, rash talk or Celia. Do we
see you just lifting paintings off the wall or are you ignoring them for now?
I listen, done and we're ignoring them until the way out. Okay,
again, I don't like to make sumptions. We would have. I
would have liked to check out the pantry. I see there are crates up
ahead. Yeah, there's definitely another room to the east there that you can
see just a quick look, a quick little peak. No, okay,
but there was nothing in the pantry. You said it was empty. Yes.
As you approach this other room, you can see that there are statues,
unupholstered furniture and old crates filling every corner of what appears to be a
storage cave. Hanging from the northern wall is a small framed painting. But
I do what I did in the the room, which is do a quick
magic sweep because I'm terrified of everything. Okay, no magic that you can
see, Okay, up, that's it's just there's nothing magical in here.
I'm concerned that we might be in the presence of either an art thief or
a collector of some kind. This does seem like a place that was used
for smuggling, though these crates are old. Are there any dependant, any
distinguishing marks on the crates? Nope? Hello, been one. Uh whatever's
on the southeast okay, mm hmmm. It looks like it's full of uh
adventuring supplies. There's some tools in there. Uh. You see what appears
to be some like potion bottles, A bunch of different tools and things.
Empty bottles, like for using their stuff in there? Oh, not magic,
The bottles would definitely give off some magic. I ah, oh,
so the crate was blocking the magic detect Oh, these there is a lot
in here, as Celia. These the magic is in the boxes. The
boxes are blocking magic detection. They are aligned with something. There are potions
in here. As I begin to grab them and put them in the bag
of holding, mm hmmm, I will open the other box as you're doing
that. As this begins, I will poke my head in Darlings. M
hm. Yes, we don't even know who's down here and we're looting the
things. What if it's like a nice old lady or some shit why would
an old lady be in a well, I don't know. Old people live
in weird places. We don't put in the world. This is strange.
So these paintings on the wall that you just passed, they are old.
See these statues here? Indeed, I think in the presence of a collector
of some kind, and he's a nice old lady. Lady put your elderly
and well, you just ignored the paintings, like and you knew that they
were worth something. And there's just stuff in a crate, and you're like,
okay, that stuff is Fine's listen, we're just taking their juice.
What's up? There's nothing wrong with that. Okay, I've missed apples.
I haven't had years. If we investigate and procure things, once we confirm
they're a terrible person, this bloody are what blood? Why don't we go
investigate the blood, which is a more pressing issue than stealing people things.
I opened the second crate, Erasma guides me same time, I also take
the potions from that one. All right, let's go. You can come
back for the rest. No, I have no idea you can will be
interested. How many potions do I have in my bag? Of unknown origins.
Yeah, there's a few sets of tools. There's ten like rod like
things. There's one set of thieves tools that you would recognize, one set
of expanded healers tools. Uh. Four of one type of some kind of
potion, and four of another kind. Is there a color to them just
so I can, Yeah, the one one of them is kind of like
a a grayish, almost steel colored potion, and one is a sort of
uh, vigorous green color. Well, yarra, we don't know what they
are, but whoever owns them, perhaps you might save their life. Yes,
we are pre planning. We have we have our own supplies. The
rod's magical A good question because I actually don't know what this item is.
Let me look it up. Wait, didn't you say the painting was old?
Why isn't that off the wall already? That this room was going to
people and we didn't want to take paintings off the wall until we were leaving.
That's the paintings on't me. It's not magical. I think you would
know this. I wouldn't make you do a check for this. So it's
the equivalent of a glow stick. Well, then I put those in my
bag. Oh, he done? Looting. Oh, yes, yes,
borrowing indeed. And there's also that like strange painting on the northern side of
the wall. I look at it longingly, but with the urgency in Yara's
breath, I will ignore it for now. Do you recognize the statues?
We didn't look at them, did we? No? You didn't. So
the statues a good question. Let me see here. They would look Mendevian
in nature, various like crusader like imagery. M hmm on the statues,
they're not magical, right, correct? Yeah? I did this sweep,
all right? Shall we go investigate the blood? Yes, yes, yes,
potential death. We could help someone who might be useful, perhaps terrible,
who knows? All right? And beyond I'm agitated, rest I'm just
like they could be dead. Did you find everything that you needed? Yes?
There were potions that could help us. What they would do, so
we will not use them, but few comments to myself and move on quietly,
everyone quietly. I'd go to the same place I was, so there
wasn't anything alarming there. I've already stepped uh stealth checks from muffin. Yep,
I'll try. We need a you said, a stealth checks? Oh?
Everyone twenty six, fourteen Natural twenty for twenty nine, Darling seventeen.
Okay, dope, it's very difficult hiding this assad. I wish I could
make that the title of the episode IL twenty. Could I hold them apart
so that they stop clapping? It's just your forearms around Okay, okay,
that's so funny. So yeah, Malvic, you you got the scent sort
of coming from the eastern passage. There's a few like little like clattering some
rocks, like just papping against some of the walls and stuff. Yeah,
I will make my way. That's it about here in signal to the others
to follow, and you just tell me if you need we need to make
another stuff check out there? Uh you see like a door around the bend
here? Mm hm yeah, I do see a door. I think I'll
ooops, I'll go to where I see the door, and then whenever one
checks out, I'll say it's another door. Would you look for me?
Yeah? Open it or check it? Yes, make sure there are no
traps or anything. Mm hmmm. I'll do that. I'll get to the
door and check for any gonna trail our traps or unlocking it if it's locked.
This kind of like hairpin area here is pretty steep like compared to the
rest of the path. Like you you take your time, you know,
you do that thing where you lean back as you're stepping forward, and you
probably descend about twenty feet down this way. The Uh you see a sturdy
wooden door that is here and there appears to be a padlock on it.
Yeah, definitely in there at least past this area. Do I notice any
blood on the door? Make a perception check or is the sense getting sicker?
Nineteen? Wait did you say the padlock is on this side? No?
Yeah, I mean you could see that it's probably on the other side.
There's a lock in the basically like in the door. Let's just say
it's oh okay, yeah, it doesn't it doesn't lock more on us.
Yeah, it doesn't describe it properly in the in the description at eighteen.
Oh, I'm sorry. You're checking with just seeing if there's like dried blood
or fresh blood or anything in there, or if they stop bleeding. They
stopped the bleeding, see anything, mm hmm, I still smell faint or
is this very strong faint? It's like they may have either survived stop the
bleeding mhm, lost so much that they wouldn't continue. Maybe they come past
this door to lock it all right? Shall we attempt to open it again?
What do we just leave and pretend we never saw anything? Would you
live with that on your conscience? No, let's open the door. Mm
hmmm. I would probably slightly call back to start to see if they can
cast any kind of detect magic on the door before I touch it. Detect
magic on the door. There is no magic on the store. It is
fine from everything I can tell. Okay, I will then pull my hair
back, take out my kit and put one pin in my mouth and slowly
slide one pin in and then put the other one in and attempt to unlock
it. Okay, I need a thievery check to start with twenty three.
Okay, this seems like a pretty complicated lock here. As you're beginning to
pick it, Malvic, you feel like sort of like one one bit catch,
you know, and you can tell that there might be three mm.
Whoever said this definitely doesn't want anybody getting in. Should we do this thing
of knocking? I continue to pick this law well, that would alert them
if they are a bad person who would like to hurt us very much.
M We'll continue with breaking it down, okay, and continue to try to
pick it in. Okay. Second, beevery check twenty malvic. You feel
like you you almost fucked up, like you almost like you almost reset the
whole thing, and you just you hear like a little scraping and then like
you just barely you just barely secure the second tumbler. Can you quiet your
jiggling. I'm not checking your tiggling the pots parts, So yes, I
was good, all right, I will try. I was like, this
is stressing me up, and I'll attempt and now I'll look back and I'll
say, you have anything that can calm me? Calm you? I mean
I can give you a little guidance if you'd like. Also, out of
curiosity, not that I'm going to do this, but with my needle darts,
would I know whether or not i'd be able to just turn these into
needles? What metal? The metal? Why would you be able to because
then you could push the door open if it's not locked. No, no,
I mean why would you be able to do it with your needle darts?
Well, I can turn any piece of metal that I have in my
possession, So if I hold onto somethingion. Okay, so it's not on
our side the lock, it's part of the door. Let's just say it's
part of the door. All right, very good. It's the reason I
was asking. They describe it in the description as a strong padlock. But
you you bring up very valid points. So let's just say that it's part
of the door. Excellent. All right. So that being said, I
am going to place a hand on Melvic and I am giving him guidance.
Thank you, not twenty this time. You have no problem with the third
tumbler. It's unlocked. The second complicated complications in the second witty, and
I'll slide it. Picks out. Did I lose any pistre in this or
no? You did not? Think goodness because it cost all right. I
will look back and smirk and be on high alert as I slide the door
and slowly. Okay, I need to make a perception check anyway. The
door opens and m hm uh inside h so many windows. Okay. Inside
you can see half a dozen animal skins hanging from iron chains attached to a
lumpy clay ceiling. The corner of this cave is utterly frigid. A thick
layer of frost rhymes the animal skins and earth and walls. Much of the
ground is incongruously made of white bricks. Sturdy wooden door which you have just
opened, leads into this room. Mm hmm. I will signal to the
others and slowly make and I will stealth in. I'll stay low to the
ground, almost on all fours. Okay, course you can see there's a
sort of tangle of stitch together animal hides laying on a blood stained wooden table.
Racks of skinning and tanning tools lean against the western wall, and in
the opposite corner someone has piled a mound of discarded clothes and adventurers gear.
There's a tunnel to the north. Never was anyone in the air, Yeah,
he said. The ground is clay, is a hard clay in certain
spot and in all spots or is it soft in some spots as well?
The moisture on the ground, yeah, I mean some some areas are kind
of like you can see there's like thick frost in that in that corner to
the yeast there. But yeah, I mean, yeah, the ground is
kind of like all over the place. There's some that's just kind of dirt
there's some clay, and then there's this like some white bricks that are like
over here, and I wouldn't notice any foots, footprints or anything. There
are no footprints or anything that you can see. Okay, I'll make a
room for the others. M end of the line. There's something way forward.
She's like, it's gonna get cold the further we go. Maybe just
leads to an exit. M well, I suppose we should go check it
out then, right? Yes, why is it? M h frousting?
Well, there could be a variety of things, could it not? It
seems magical. It's very cold here. Mm hmmdeed, so I like it?
All right? I will Shall we check on it? Then? Yes,
yes, let's let's do it. M hm. I would like to
walk in how a closer look at these furs? H okay, Uh you
head to the east, there's uh you can see that there's uh some like
over okay are Celia? Thank you? Uhia? No you walk over these
uh white bricks and m hm hmmmm, I am going to need you.
Oh lord, Oh that's brutal. Uh Okay, I guess I just get
to make a role here. Uh twenty four? Does that beat your AC.
Can I raise my shield? Is that a reaction? No, that's
a you have to preemptive. I have to preemptively do that. Sorry damn?
Then yes, okay? Oh wait, oh wait? Can I can
I do a reaction of my what's it called? No? No? No?
The emissaries protection raise my AC by one. I don't know how that
works. So you tell me this hazard? Oh right, once per day
plus one a C plus one fortitude saving throws and yeah, so these are
the scales that grow as a reaction. Will that prevent this from I will
meet the twenty four? Yeah, so that's still a hit unfortunately. Oh
never mind. Then uh okay, bhats o kaidoki. Uh. You get
blasted by a jet of uh frost. You are hit for five cold damage
and four persistent cold. The swirling jet of frost blasts or Celia, leaving
this rhyme of cold on her skin, and it's just constantly blowing this cold
air. Well, firstly, so it's still blowing the air out in this
area here? Is it violent enough that we wouldn't be able to cover it?
Um? You can definitely try. Could you draw out the range of
it for a visual? If sure? Uh, there you go, thank
you. Yes, that's what I was fearing. Eh, the other side
may be trapped. Two. Uh, we're coming. Let us check the
other side and see if we can make it over to her. Yes,
yes, very well, or say yeah, please roll a D twenty five
take four more cold damage as a persistent cold stays on. Yeah, and
you should be able to rule to cancel it. Is that correct? That's
what she just did? Oh she did? Oh? Yes, yes,
y that's very good. All right, Asilia, if you make your way
to me, I'll try and help you. And as we are moving,
I'm checking to see if I notice any sort of traps on the ground or
anything like that. Sure, make a perception check twenty eight. You don't
see any on this side. It's so cold, and I don't see anything
on this side of rosstalk. Very good, and I will will make my
way forward. Can I move? You can? However, uh, Yara,
As you begin to turn the corner, there is something that catches your
notice. Uh. What you believe to be a bunch of skins on the
h on this wooden table appears to be moving. We have company dollings.
Everybody just selected their tokens and please roll initiative since I let's see, do
I roll self regular? Uh? This will be regular. The stealth is
not active anymore, all right? Uh? Okay. As these skins begin
to move along this wooden table, uh, you realize it's some kind of
stitched together shape. It is a bag like but humanoid in its appearance.
It begins to move awkwardly off of the table. Mm hmmm. And I
need to roll an initiative for this creature as well. We maleve Uh,
just reroll and add and change your number to the tweet absolute. I have
selected my token. Okay, let's see here. Okay, our Celia,
it is your turn. As you begin to move to meet yaa shaking called
you. Uh you see Yr's eyes go a bit wide? What the fuck
is that? I would like to exploit vulnerability? Okay, esoterical ore please
twenty two. Yeah, I'll be a regular success all right. I learn
of its highest weakness fire m hm h Melvic. We might need some of
your your heat here, all right? Are you sure it's smart for me
to do that? Otherwise we might turn into skin for its collection. For
my second action, I will move here. Third action, I will attack
it with my morning start now my dagger venom okay, twenty five Okay,
that is a hit. Okay, so it will be eleven piercing damage and
two plus whatever its fire weaknesses. Okay mmm, and that crit that's only
on a crit for the poison stuff. Okay, fair enough. So this
was how much you said? It was five plus eleven piercing and then two
plus the weakness of whatever the fire is. Okay. Yeah. The skin's
like definitely like a good catch as you stab this creature. When you stab
it, it feels really weird. It almost feels a little hollow, and
you realize that the skin is kind of like bulging around in places. Disgusting.
Is that for your turn in, Carcelia? Yes, do I make
the save? Got to do a D twenty core four more persistent cold damage.
That's it? Okay, This bag of skin slides off the table.
I think that will count as a move basically here, or Celia, if
you have anything that you want to do, Nope, move, it's taking
a five foot step of effectively, So I don't, No, I can't.
Okay, then it will? Oh lord, okay, um ah,
that sucks. It raises up this like nasty looking blood covered, uh,
jagged blade and it will really like awkwardly strike at you. It looks a
little bit like the like Edgar from Men in Black. That's sort of very
loose skin that's moving about. And uh, it will attempt a flay as
it attacks. Thirty three to hit a hit not a crit right, Uh,
you didn't know, because I'm going to use my emissaries protection, so
it's not a crit to. Scales begin to grow on my face as I
take this blow. Okay, Uh, that will be twelve slashing damage plus
three additional damage as this creature slices a chunk of skin off of you.
And let's see this is going to be or I'm sorry. That three damage
is persistent bleed now sorry, so that doesn't activate yet. That is,
you have two persistent effects on you now, bleed and cold. And that
is it for its turn, or at least it would be if beetles didn't
start crawling out of this thing. They begin to pour through openings, stitches
that weren't completely closed. You see skin beetles pouring out in a swarm from
this creature. At your feet are Celia and that will be right? What
the right? There? And I will add that creature to the turn order.
Now okay, see what did you have? You had twenty? Oh?
Shit? Okay, they don't get a turn yet, Malvic, it's
your turn. I believe it's a rashtos is it not? Oh? Wait?
No? The channelder distressed. Yes, can I hear you? Ah?
You'll slowly see my head tired and look towards the rosstock and then your
do you require my aid? Malvic? Snap out of it? Darling?
Os Celia is in trouble? Do you require my aid? Malvic? Are
you losing the fight again? Help o Celia or she will die? Do
you no? So be I only rache is that it for return? That
is all very well? Do you hear a point? Malavik? A rashta
your turn? I spit it, Malevic, and move up and cast burning
hands. Okay, yes, yes, so it should be that would be
hitting both the bugs and the flesh thing, and only them with this range,
because it is fifteen foot so it would be there and it hit all
three of the spots. Okay, doak, there's no the reflex wouldn't be
nineties socks gone way better at this pet you went to schoo, will that's
not right, but it'd be a basic, which would be twenty two.
Okay, twenty Why did it default to that? I pulled these spells out
of the compendium. No, it says what it says. You gotta be
ninety four. Whack, that's a point. This is for the swarm.
Oh shit, thirty six all right, that's nothing, okay. And then
the skin stitch it has a plus twenty yep, yep, so it takes
half damage. But it is fire. Yeah, so the fire erupts and
a rostak. You've got a table that's there, and I think it just
kind of blocks like a bunch of the fire. The bugs like easily like
begin to move all around and separate from the fire, feeling the intense heat,
and you can see they do react very intensely to it as they back
away completely dodging that. But the skin stitch, on the other hand,
does not like that very much. So this is how much damage? Six?
That would be three before any weaknesses are added. Okay. Yeah,
it definitely catches some fire, like you can see, like the skins like
quickly blacken, and the creature seems to have only a vague awareness of it
catching fire. But it definitely has a react. Good. That is my
done? Then okay, alrighty y are it's your turn. Yes, I
will look between everyone and I will aim my head towards Malevik Malevik, Darling.
You can overcome this. We need you not whatever the fuck that is
require my aid. I say nothing, and I first cast my lifelink onto
ar Cilia and rash talk and that will heal for nine points of healing or
ar Cilia and noticing that they have been talking about fire and whatnot, how
a conjure, force a searing light in my hands and cast it towards the
large creature, and I will reroll that sixteen utilizing a hero point. As
this is a third levels bill wow for a thirty Now, I believe it'll
use the first damage rule, unless you want to use a second. I
don't know how we want to do that, since I wouldn't have ruled it,
but either way, yeah, it just we're just gonna take the second
one as a whole package. Right. So that's fifteen points of fire damage,
and if it is a fiend or undead, it takes additional damage,
but I do not believe it is. It is not an undead excellent.
All right, so that is fifteen points of fire damage. Okay, what
does this look like as you cast a spell? I'm scrambling. Finally,
I poise myself and I put my hands into a sort of globe formation to
summon forth this light, and then it pierces through from my hands after I
aim it in that direction towards this creature, burning it with like a it's
almost a holy light, but it's it's more pale. It's like a pale
golden light. It it sears this The skins on this creature, you see
them sort of like furling up a little bit in various places, like they
you know, there's they're they're being uh pulled, you know, like as
they shrink, so the stitching and stuff like popping off. You can see
all these bugs fucking crawling inside. Oh o, Celia, darling, I'll
help you at a moment. That is my turn. Okay, skin beetle
swarm Okay, good luck, Ostelia. This is not a good thing.
Mmm yeah, oh boy, uh, ar Celia, they are going to
swarm all over you and start biting. No that role right, hold on,
No, I definitely did not hold on. That is not correct.
Sorry, oh boy, let me find that. Oh no, that is
not correct. That should be a uh so rolled this so that was just
a flat six, so that should be a nineteen. That is not a
hit. Okay. That is the first attack, first action, second attack
sixteen. As these beetles begin crawling all over you, and they're big,
they're like the sizes of a hand, and yeah, Arcilia is just like
swiping them off. And last attack in eighteen got a miss. Yeah,
Arcilia, you're just shoving them off of you as quickly as you can.
You can see several like they're mandibles, trying to pinch and cause you bodily
harm. But that is a miss on all three that try to bite you.
Very very good. Those things suck. It is now your turn,
all right. I would like to take a five foot step back. Mm
hm oh, I am so sorry. So they I need you to make
a reflex save. This is actually not an attack role. That's why I
didn't have it in there. I'm sorry. That's okay, what twenty five.
It's my bad. It's fine, you're good, okay. So first
action, I step back. Actually, before I step back, I'm going
to just swing h dagger venom at the creature. The large one twenty one
twenty one is a miss. It like awkwardly sort of bodily shoves you like
as you try to attack, and you just it just narrowly misses. Very
good. I will then step back and I will try to swing at the
bugs twenty eight. Yep, that is a hit. Okay, that is
only nine piercing damage. Okay, you can see like piercing these creature shells
is just absolute nightmare. As you stab with the dagger of venom, it
scrapes along its shell. It definitely reacts in pain. But you didn't like
properly stab it. I need help. That's my turn, small furrow in
its shell. Okay, skin stitch doesn't like you back and off. It's
gonna shamble forward following you. The bugs are still like all over the ground
nearby, and it will swipe with its blade again and try to flay you
some more. Oh, make a q D twenty year rolls please all right?
This one will be for the cold damage success. This one's for the
bleed, not the success. But you take three bleed damage. The cold
is gotten not quite as bad, and it's uh it has disappeared from their
persistent damage. Feel cold steel covered in frost, but you're not freezing anymore.
H okay. Uh. This creature, which for some reason it's sheep,
is not loading for me. Let me refresh. Sorry one second okay,
okay, it will strike at you with its blade. That's a crit
yep. Can't can't tiptoe around that one. Nope. First, this is
slashing damage and it's gonna be double. That's thirty two slashing damage. As
a reaction, No, no, I will activate a bond or brief second.
Uh, still down, lope. I will take five prior to that,
and then you will split that as heads up, I'll use my Oh
okay, so thirty two got taken down in twenty seven and Malvic you will
take thirteen. Parcilia you take fourteen. Okay, then uh, I need
you to so the persistent bleed damage. Le's see if that gets worse,
will either stay at three or get worse stay in at three? Okay.
Yeah, another strip of skin gets peeled off of you by this blade,
ar Celia. It's terrific. Oh god. Uh. You can see the
creatures like holding up this like a bit of green skin. That's kind of
like flopping around, and it looks like it's about to attach it to itself.
Malvic, it's your turn. She will die? An argodizing, Do
you require my aid? Don't you have a blood bond that means you die
too? Or does it? What do you mean he dies? So I'll
ask you again. It says wasting. You are not magic. Do you
require my gap? She will die? You will die? You are Can
you sleep on your conscious of her being peeled alive added to the skin bag
that is in front of you. Ask for my aid. It would be
over as fast as it can be. If you need to suppress this to
save her. Can you fail? Just ask for the aid? Aid?
What week you're not giving? Yarrop you're not given? Like Malvic did?
I told you? I warned him. If he denied it, you will
see me going off furs. My back will broaden. Ass for the aid.
All you have to do. Let's say my name and I will take
action. Speak it. Speak Malevic's name, Oh dark Malevic. I will
move up, passora and sit here. Melvic, please make me a bring
me a perception check. Twenty four. Okay, Now this area over here
is blowing like a jet of frosty, freezing air. I'm assuming you go
to the east with a twenty four around that way. M all right,
you cannot see it? What's happening? No, for fine, I will
take it deep inhale. You cannot need to speak it. He's already asked
for it, but you will ask for my aid when it comes comes.
There's a two action oof. I will then preakin to have the flames enveloped
my body, but I will save the action the next round asks for the
eight. If you know you want to your do not let our death be
on your hands. One last chance. Ask for it sounds not yours.
I will look directly into your eyes. Malevich. It's a shame child.
FAsMA must be disappointed. I will not take actually, but I will hold
it's true action very well. She's dying. I can feel it. You
can feel it. A y line you are Oh you want to say,
don't let me tell you there is a lay line underneath us. The power
will be immense. One blow, No, yeah, rosstop darling, do
something. I'm working on it. As Celia, you need to reach out
to Malevic when you can get away and reach out to him. He has
lost his fight. This is all of Malvik's turn rash talk. Hmmm,
I am going to cast something I have not yet upon the skin Stitch malicious
Shadow. Enjoy the paragraph I summon through am I rerolled out to attack,
so it doesn't go away thankfully, But oh because it's not. Oh no,
that definitely hits. Hold on, that didn't take my god, damn
it. I hate these smells. Sometimes. That's plus twelve. That's a
twenty nine to hit. Yeah, that is a hit. I take the
skin Stitch's shadow and meld it into a giant mosquito, similar but not as
grandiose or beautiful as the mosquito which as it stands above this creature and begins
to slash and pierce that it are okay, and that is for nineteen.
Now it says additional damage bludgeoning, piercing or splashing. Yeah, I think
that's incorrect. It should be. Let me see the description here. It's
a choice, so in this case it would be piercing. Okay, tendrils
of the shadow, almost mirroring Jara's needle darts. We see thin pieces of
shadow just kind of stab through this creature, and they seem to like do
next to nothing. Okay, fair enough, let's see that was to action.
Yes, oh, I am so sorry. They do connect and they
tear, they do rend some of this scheme. Okay, on this creature,
I apologize. So it does look effective, then, yes, okay,
good, thank you. Yes, so it was. If I'm guessing
blood you meing probably would have done that. But you don't answer that of
course. Uh good. I then cast life Oh no, I don't cast
life boost that his uses up the same things, so I cannot cast life
boosts there. Then with that, I will move back against the wall.
Next Tiara, and that is my turn. Speaking of Yara, it is
your turn on. I will utilize my doctor's visitation in order to go ahead
and run to os Cilia and also use battle medicine in the same turn on
the same action at an expert level. That is, oh, I am
going to reroll it seventeen, which was a fail getting rerolled. Come on
battle medicine like a neighbor. It's just started in eighteen. That is a
failure. Still, fuck's looking dire your hearts. I know, I know,
I know. With my shut up, I'm going to go ahead then,
and I will cast a level three heel with my moderate curse allowing me
to roll the twelves instead for two actions, that is going to be twenty
two US twenty four plus three for the heel for her. So it should
be about forty nine points of healing for our Cilia. And if that pops
her off, which I don't think it does, it would clear her.
What is it? It does tap me off and your bleed is also gone,
os Cilia? Are you all right? Oh my fuck? What is
this thing? Man? Off it quick battling your fucking demons and get over
here now as they cry out for you. All you have to do say
that you need a spink my name, and it will be done. People.
I shake my head. That is my turn, all right. Uh.
Just to further add insult to injury, here are Celia, those strips
that were like cut off you and now healed. I think I think there's
a lasting sort of appearance here, right, maybe even like a skin a
skin graft recipient. That sort of look you can see that that strip that's
sort of like scabbed over and healed, but it's it's always going to be
there, you know, like even after it's been healed. You see it
permanently marked by this moment. Yes, and then there are strips of skin
that have been you know, repaired, so it's they're very visible. This
creature is holding my skin in front of me, just dangling. Then the
skin beetles will begin to move forward and they're gonna go ahead and envelop Arcilia
and Yarra. The skin beetles begin crawling up your legs again, and uh,
let's see here. I need reflex saves from Yarra and Arcilia. Please
twenty nine fifteen Okay, let's read this because God damn uh, ar Cilia,
that is a success. Yara, not so much, oh, Kate,
Yarra, you take twenty three piercing damage as the swarm begins to crawl
up and start biting you with its mandibles. You also take two persistent bleed
and you are now clumsy. One to make me fucking clumsy, I'll raise
my amulet to reduce the damage by eight. Uh yep, I mean just
a double check here, real quick, um okay, and it will do
so again. I need reflex saves from the both of you again. Please
fifteen twenty six Okay, this time you succeed, Yarah or Celia. That
is a fail, I think, not a critical fail. Not a critical
fail. Okay, sixteen piercing damage or Celia, and you are bleeding again,
one persistent bleed and you are clumsy one. Okay, ar Celia,
it's your turn, all right. I take a status penalty to deck space
checks dcs AC reflects saves all right, good to know. Shit. I
strike out with my dagger venom at the skin creature again twenty one. That
is a miss. M hm. I swing down at the beetles below us.
That's a crit. Very nice, okay, Uh yeah, you absolutely
skewer one of these things. And let me see here, uh magical necromancy
and poison o car. Do you want me to roll the crit damage?
No, we just double it. We just double it. Okay, but
it does get sickened. Maybe it needs to make a DC nineteen fortitude save.
That is a fail. It is a sickend swarm mm hmm. And
that's sixteen piercing damage total. Okay, uh yeah, the shells are very
resistant to piercing damage. M hmm. Sorry, inter something real quick.
Okay, was this the first time before this, as Cilia in the round
that you took damage when you got hit by them. Uh. I suppose
it depends on if it triggers on your turn or my turn. No,
it's in a round, so it's whoever's at the top of the water.
So if then monster was at all right, so you would get five HP
pack Okay, you would take five okay uh and the poison okay, yep,
all right, they are sickened. Little bug, well not little,
I guess, hand sized bugs just pupin and poopin everywhere, disgusting. For
my final action, I will attempt to swing the dagger venom at the large
creature again thirteen. That is a miss. That's it. It's just it's
sort of awkwardly moves out of the way of the attack. It's her.
It's like herky jerky, you know. Uh. The skin stitch will now
stitch your skin onto its skin and it closes up one of the many wounds
that have accumulated for one action. Then it will slice it you with its
blade as its second action. That is another crit Jesus Christ, go ahead,
I just want to check a thing real quick. I'm assuming it doesn't,
but does that skin stitch count as like a spell like ability that might
get a reaction. Manipulate, manipulate if you if you have an attack of
opportunity that you would like to use, that would be usable right now if
she's not using her reaction for something else. Correct, yes, I might
as well. Uh so, as it tries to stitch itself, I will
use my reaction to try to slash it. And it's a miss is used
up now. Oh boy, this'll be fine. That is twenty slashing damage.
That was minimum damage by the way, as you are struck, let's
see here. Uh yeah, it's just gonna be a second blade attack for
it's last action. Twenty eight hit that hits okay for another thirteen slashing damage.
Fuck ah whaling and sorry steepend It is your turn. Malavik mmm of
time speak my name has for my aid. I will take care of it.
I have a plan. Your do not give in to this. Welp,
And I'm not speaking of Malavik. Oh yes, I believe your internal
thoughts are of that all deceiving meladic Really, how you can't trust him?
I trust him, not you? All right? You're a Oh how is
the one that you have feelings for being skinned alive in front of you?
That's I feel of you. Shut up, or Celia, Oh you know
what's to do? Ask her? Malasick? I need you. Don't score
for him. There's nothing he can do to save you. You are bleeding
out, asked for it out. I have a plan as a plan.
Trust me, not this thing. I look over at rostok pleadingly. I
have this. Trust me take care of her. I'll take care of this
thing is on my head away, little thing that must have cling to someone
else's life. It cannot surfy on its own. Oh if you only knew
that, I don't. I do know. Shut up. All I want
to do is help you. What you have to do is ask this what
Mafic wants it? To save her? Feel it's crawling out the apex.
There is something powerful inside this one. If you only has he the flames
that are starting to envelop the body will doubter in blue blue last chance to
ask. I say you will not survive another hit. She will. She
is strong of you. If she dies, the bond is broken, you
lose both, not one. The body will belong to me. I'll do
as I wish. You know how it feels your have a bodyman mutilated in
front of you. You do not want that. I know you don't think
about your your other companion. Have this. That is it for Malvic's turn
rast I cast rousing splash on Malevic, dousing the flames seventeen hp as you
are immediately doused entirely in water. What may you called your dad? Body?
Save us? She said, the voices loud, No money, they
fuck the voices. Help us in and now she will die without you.
No, no, no, no, no save her. I will stand
up from being on all wards flamesable on the ignit inside and that outside it's
tonally, and I will look towards us, say and frightened, afraid,
I'm weak, I'm sorry, and that will be there, and then the
turnolder will continue. I then sustain my spell of Melisia's Shadow, giving it
another attack. I fixed out that. Ye is that? Why? Okay?
Well, twenty two it's a twenty rolled an eight an eight? Oh
you're right, yes, I mean ten plus eight. Now I rolled a
ten. It's supposed to be taking six and eight in the in the yes,
correct, that's the other. That's my spell proficiency, which is lowered
by four because it's being terrible. It should be twenty two to hit.
Oh, okay, twenty two to hit. Yes, it is not doing
what it's supposed to. There is a hit. Okay for twenty two more
shadow piercing damage. Okay, rash talk, how do you kill it?
Oh? Staring at Malevic directly as I move this shadow, and it pierces
and stabs this thing over and over and over until it is nothing but tatters.
We do not need you demon. We are fine on our own with
Malevic. Die I have no demon. Then control yourself so I trust you
like I say I do. Please make an intimidation check a rash talk.
Do you have a circumstance bonus of a plus two? It's a good thing.
It's a plus. It's a zero for me, it's a ten.
Just nice and twelve. This will be twelve, Malvic, U make a
I think, make a will save Okay, you're not yelling at me,
Do not threaten me. I have done nothing. I say, yah,
it's not over yet, Melovick. I need you. I w didn't remove
my great soul from my back and continue to roll order? Okay? Is
that a for return of raschak? Yes, y beatles are crawling all over
you and our cilia. I am going to go ahead and use my daily
exception for my battle medicine in order to apply it again to ostilia at an
expert level that is a twenty nine, and she shall be healed for twenty
three points of healing. Know, we need to we need to get rid
of these things. Let me ask you a question able to do this while
you are in a swarm. That's a question. Well, it depends on
if I'm able to make any sort of action, because it's just a manipulate
action. Yeah, you should be able to m Yeah, I guess you
are. Okay, And with my final two actions, I'm going to raise
a hand and my hand will glow blue as I cast tortress trauma on the
bugs in this swarm. They must make a twenty two fortitude saving throw.
Okay, DOOKI natural one. So that is it's a critical failure because it's
a natural one. Yes, yep. So they will take double the damage,
which will be thirty points of bludgeting damage, and they will be fatigued
until the start of my next turn. Okay, And you said how much
bludging Since it's fifteen, it would be doubled. It would be thirty.
Okay, okay, yeah, and this is like it's horrible that you can
see they're already making noise, like as they're crawling on you. There's just
that sort of you know, the sound of like mandibles closing and like clattering,
and and there's this horrible cacophony of screeching amongst the Beatles as they sort
of move awkwardly and seemingly in great trauma from this from this spell, I
look both terrified and horribly angry at the same time. That is my turn.
Okay, the skin beat old swarm. I need reflex saves are Cilia
and you Arera twenty three fifteen baby Oh no, uh yeah yeah yeah,
success or Cilia he Arra oh boy wow you'reraly shp cearable on the damage.
Uh you take eight piercing damage and you will also take two persistent bleed damage.
Now, I actually should have taken damage previously for this bleed. I
believe on either my last time or the last two, and whatever was higher.
They're both persistent two, so I would have taken four at this point
and then this would be six. Okay, so I'm at forty three HP
then okay, yeah, and just mark yourself let's say two bleed. Okay,
thank you, and that was the first action. Second action another reflex
say please, and they are also fatigued as a heads up sickened. No,
well they have been from what I've done. Yes, yes, so
I'm not sure if that changes anything. It might minus one SATs finally,
ac and saving throws uh okay, second wouldn't have changed anything, right,
My reflex save is thirty two? All good? Mine is that thirteen that
unfortunately is acred. Actually, hold on, let me see what sickend does.
Checks in DC's DC's go down, No to this value on all your
checks in DC's, should immediately attempt to forty for saving? Un that's your
produced your second value that I want the question here, Pathfinder people, when
it says you take a status penetically equal to this value on all of your
checks and dcs, does that mean that for the players their DC is lowered?
Is that correct? So their d C they have to beat is lowered
by one? Is that the way that I'm reading that, I would believe
so, because it would be like your your spell DC's. Technically it might
be saving throats, but it would say saving throats. Yeah, yes,
yes, okay so that does matter because that makes it not a qut uh,
which is pretty good. That's pretty good. Yes, I like not
getting critted. That's better than I thought it was. However, you still
take thirteen piercing damage this time. Let's see which bleed effect is worse.
Let's go for another D four. Hey we got a four now, all
right? So four per assistant bleed now and that would stuck on top of
the other one? Or do I take it just right? Okay? Okay,
So let's see we got one last action here from these guys and even
the last reflex save from the both of you. Fifteen success or, Celia,
you take eighteen piercing damage. That one. There's the damage. I
was wondering where it went. And for a persistent bleed, and you are
clumsy one, there's a clumsy stack. I already have a clumsy okay,
uh y, you also have clumsy one as well, by the way,
Okay, that is it for the skin beetle swarm, or Celia, it's
your turn. I will do a exploit to vulnerability on the beetles swarm eighteen
uh that is a fail all right. Even with a failure, I can
activate personal antithesis. I will take out some spores from my pouch and crack
them against the morning Star, no, the Dagger Venom, and then I'll
strike down, because that's been what I have been using. Second second action
is attack for thirty four. Oh that is a hit. Okay, so
it will take ten piercing damage Pulus five and not a crit even though it
has reduced. They see that is correct to fifteen total. When Arclia got
hit last, I would have taken five at the start of that turn as
it heads up as well. Okay, okay, so make sure to add
five back if you haven't. Arcelia. Yes, okay, but all right,
yeah again our Celia. These things are hard to pierce. You hit
one like get on and it just scarranges across its shell. I do it
again, poor crit. Okay, I strike in the exact same spots determined
to crack through. So that's gonna be fourteen piercing damage it has to make.
I suppose it's already sickened so it wouldn't really matter. So that's gonna
be fourteen piercing plus five okay, Doki, yeah, I mean these things
are so resilient, like you kill one of them, and there's just so
many more. And then I roll for the persistent damage. I got to
eleven. That is a fail. So you take the four persistent lead.
That is my turn, Okay, Malvic, I will do no. I
will do this without you. I'll look back at her stock. I will
drag my grade sword along on along the ground and walk slowly towards. Everything
is blurry as I strike my great sword across the ground, a blue flame
work night, and I will slash towards these the swarm twenty nine. That
is a hit. Four of it is fire damage. What kind of damage
are you doing? It's striking, striking slashing? Excuse me, all right,
h slashing very well, Malvic, slashing with your great sword in a
large arc, you tear through us. To excuse me, it's twenty two
damage as a lay line. Ye, yes, uh. The you strike
your you're a great sort along the ground. You slice through many of these
bugs along the way. Oh yeah, it's four damage too for the two.
Well, i'll do it again. Twenty is a miss. I'll slash
again. My heart's not in it, A strengths not in it? Is
it technically flanked? Now? I don't know if that applies for swim,
I don't think that applies on the swarmers. But okay in eight oh sorry,
I wouldn't have taken that last strike because I moved. Sorry. And
no, they do not take critical hits or flanking. They critical hits.
Yeah, so swarm trains at least hold on, let me see here,
very nice. I want to make sure we double check it. I want
to double check it though, because this is not from Nethis. From Nethis,
there is nothing about criticals. It just says they're immune to grapple pro
or restrained. That's it. Nothing about critical is not looking. Yeah,
that is straight from roll twenty that I just pasted. Okay, yeah,
that it seems that source is likely wrong. It's probably outdated. Yeah,
could be. Yeah, yes, to ease. It didn't specify. There
are also some chewy rules that they change. No, it says swarm traits
under swarm and the uh if you go to swarm at the archives of notthis,
it says swarm traits. A swarm has no clear front or back and
no discernible anatomy, so it is not subject to critical hits or flanking.
Okay, so it is not second no, this is first edition actually yeah
Jesus Christ. Yeah, second edition. They can be cricky. You also
have that confirmed in chat. Very cool. Yeah, they changed it in
second Yeah, so you're all good doing it correctly, all right, Malvic?
Yeah, I let's swing is counted. Then I moved, So let's
see. I'm just like, get out and get out of there, rash
talk. Yes, there's over them there. I don't think you are currently
flanking it because it is not surrounded. You're like standing in the in the
bugs. Yes, I think I'll just too a ray of frost on the
bugs. The shadow has disappeared as the creature died. By the way,
the shadow just kind of crumbles into the shadows of smaller creatures and just dissolved.
Mhm for critical The yest was son enthusiastic, but it was apparently pretty
effective. Okay, Yeah, I'm tired, I've been yelling. You see
several of these bugs just get encompassed by freezing cold where the ray lands kneeling
twenty cold. Alrighty, And if it matters, it now takes a ten
foot status penalty for speeds for one round if it decides to leave. Okay,
is that if you're turning to rashock. I'm going to cast guidance up
on Yara. Okay, my final action in the nine good. When you
extend a spell, you have to take any extra penalty for that, like
an extra action ary. Now, guidance is thirty foot not reach or not
touched, so like spell. Yes, okay, so I don't need respell,
but you're absolutely right I would normally it is your turn on I'm well,
hmmm, right at this point, I just want these things fucking dead.
So I wave my hand over the rape here and I will cast needle
darts as the darts levitate above my hands, and I will cast them force
towards the bugs, trying to pinpoint them. For they plus one from guidance.
So it's a nineteen to hit. I believe that misses. You see
several of the needles like bounce off the shells. Several of them miss.
You're crawling all over you, yar. It's it's hard not to shoot yourself,
you know, all right. And with my final action, I am
going to place a hand on our cilia, casting guidance upon her so she
gets a plus one on her next attack. Actually, yes, yes,
and that is my turn. Okay, skin beetles warm, I need reflect
saves please from Arcadia's your guy didn't see her by the way, aar Cilia
twenty two. That is just barely a success, yarra. Unfortunately that is
a hero points. Oh boy, that is a critical failure. Unfortunate here,
I've only used the shared burden once. Right, I'm not a hero
point. I take five damage for you, if that makes you feel any
better. Love is twenty four piercing damage, car Celia SA, and you're
already at maximum bleed. You are still clumsy unfortunately. Oh actually, clumsy
makes those reflex saves even worse. You get a minus one on those.
It's already mechanically input. Do you have the uh button checked on yours,
Yarra, Yes, I do, but for some reason it's not actually applying
anything to my AC, so that would be wait, clumsy applies to saving
throws as well. It just DC dcs. Yes, yes, so that
would have been a twenty two, I believe. Let me double check though
I normally have a twenty two in here, Jose guidance. So you have
the thirteen plus nine right now, Yes, it did not count it,
so it would be a twenty one that is hit the unfortunately. Yeah,
all right, okay, this will be twenty piercing damage. Yara uhol that's
attacked one. That's the first action, second action luck reflex saves please,
that's so interesting. So having clumsy one on the sheet, if you open
up the saving throat, it adds a temporary negative one. But when you
roll it like you hover over, it doesn't say like my reflex is expert
twelve and it just says twelve and seven eleven. Okay, anyway, because
it's take one, I'm guessing it just automatically takes it out before you roll
it. Yes, isn't correct. Okay, that's another not one. Crap.
Oh boy, this is bad. This is bad. These are two
faces. That's fine. Our Celia's is a critical fail. It's okay,
wait no it's not okay, wait no, it's fine. Wait, Sarah
Burdon really wants a day day. I'm an orc or Celia gets some special
bullshit. Yes, I have a thing one anti death, so I'm okay.
Forty six piercing damage headed your way, ar Cilia. Okay, well
I hate zero and then I automatically go back up to one. Now here's
a question. When that activates, you avoid being knocked out and remain and
your wounded condition increases by one. So you're wounded is actually going to increase
by two because that was a crip mm hm. But we're still up now
for you Ara, Oh boy, here we go. That is fifteen damage,
piercing damage. Yara, I look to Malavik as I collapse to the
ground. I am unconscious and dying. I do, I do. I
dropped to a knee, and I look as if I'm about to collapse,
but I hold on through sheer strength. There's uh, there's beetles like crawling
all over Yarra and and Arsilia, pinching and biting with mandibles. Yes,
uh, Yara, you are dying one wounded one. Ar Cilia, you
are wounded two right now, m one more action from the beatles. Unfortunately,
I'm so sorry. Correct is that right? Uh? It took too
reaction? Now these are this is it says swarming bite. There's a swarming
bite. There's a swim bite. That's three. Oh it is three.
Okay, very good because that could have potentially been death for yar Are.
Celia. It is your turn, Oh boy, switching weapons. Does that
count as an action? Yeah, all right, I will so first action,
switch to my morning Star and you see me crack the same spores onto
it, and then I will swing it down as my second action. Twenty
three twenty three unfortunately not a hit. Oh twenty things. They are second
fatigued twenty four damn okay wait wait sorry one second? Well, no,
you have to declare before year old the guidance. I don't think you used
it, but that's declared before roll well drinking a lesser healing potion taking action.
Yes, okay, then I'll do that for my final action. I
believe it's too. Unfortunately, I would love very much for you to do
an action because you have to take it out as well, unless unless you're
wearing them. I'd probably that's different where sowhare is it in your items?
Oh it's o okay, then I can't do that. No, it's fine.
Then what I will do for my last action is just saying I can't
get out of here even if I five footstep yep. Sorry, wrong button
I wish, Oh my god, I wish. I hate the wrong fucking
button down I mean subtract. Yeah, you don't have to reroll this.
Okay, all right, thank you, you're so nice. Well, listen,
I'm just trying to be fair, because this is pretty bad. That
would be a thirty still a crit. It's still a crit. You still
roll the natural twenty, it's just not a thirty five. Uh so that
is still a crit. And that is for bludgeoning damage with the morning Star.
Mm hmm, I'm not gonna lie. It's better than piercing. Still
not great. Okay, so that's eighteen bludgeoning plus five. You feel like
you feel like, uh you crunch one pretty good and it's still moving around.
Why won't you fucking die? There's so many dead beatles around, and
there's so many that are like that have taken like a horrible beating. Okay,
I have a question. Would the persistent bleeding still be a thing?
Yeah? Okay, So what you're saying is I have to succeed on this
role or I'm gonna fall down. Yes, okay, what number don't I
have to beat? Can I give hero points? Fuck? Ar Cilia gets
knocked unconscious. Arcilia, you are I think you are wounded too. Now
you are dying one Malvic. I need you to please make a will save
for me. Oh no, I was seventeen. That does a fail.
Unfortunately, Malvic. As our celia falls to the ground, you feel like
your heart has been ripped out of your chest. Wants to make a role
for me, Ross Tucker Malvic probably not mean. I'm not going to mean
a right sayer of mine. Well, I'll do it to Then I should
rephrase Dan or a technique. Oh m, I'll let you. I'll speak
is stand there, I'll let you pick who wants to roll. You can
tell me to roll two. I'm time with that. It'll be a So
this is not a good thing. Is this is not a good thing?
I gathered? He said, I said? He said me? What am
I rolling? Okay, Dan, let's see here, o boy, let's
find this real quick. Ummmm okay, Dan, I need you to roll
me in two D twenties. Please separate or in all together. Just roll
two D twenties. First one is a twenty, second one is a thirteen.
Okay, Malvic, you take thirty three damage. This will be bleeding
damage where the blood bond was made rents open and just blood starts pouring out
like an artery has been hit. I now need you to roll a d
six. Please a rash tak two. Okay, Malvic, you have also
to persistent bleed damage. Oh it is your turn, Malvic. Just looking
around and seeing blood falling everywhere. I look back to Oto. Was he
right? Was it right? I will save them? You kill the creatures.
I have this yours on the ground. I don't think she's breathing.
I saved you. I'll save them, said you trust me. I'll just
swing my grits on That is a crit Holy shit, four it or eight
of it is fire damage. How do you kill the rest of them?
Mountains? I look back at her stock. You'll see tears of blood coming
out of my eyes as I'll turn my whole body into the air in a
cylindrical format. The blade was backhanded. As it scrapes the ground, the
flames turn a rich, bright blue till green as blood hits the blade blade.
And then I'll swing it with all my might as if I'm dying.
And then when it hits the group who the flame will burst out of the
ground, encircling them as they burn up. And then you hear a faint.
I'll start crawling towards them and grabbing both of them and holding them both
of my arms as I'll rock back and forth. I'm rolling stabilized immediately on
both give them a punch and I run over to ours Cilia and do the
same. I pull one of mine, uncooke the portion, and I hold
our mom of blood and mixing in her hair and port gently and then wipe
her lips. Wake up. That's twelve for you all, Celia. Yeah,
you can roll the hell you are. I did just nineteen points of
healing. I tear off part of my robe, handed to Malvick, starts
the bleeding. No, I deserve I deserve it. Starch her bleeding.
Then I'll wrap it around. Twenty rolls from Marsilia yarra and Malvic m bo.
That's thirteen ar Cilia success, Yara, you're bleeding the fiction, damn.
I continue to bleed. After I staunched the beating. I'll I'll lay
your arm down certainly and then kind of crab walk backwards and beer. No
no, no, no, no, no no no. I walk over
to you while Vic and grab your hand and do the same for you.
Let me, let me, let me, let it go, no and
fight for you to let you die. I'll give it. I'm attempting to
help staunch the bleeding for him as well. Okay um, I make a
medical medicine check. I will use nature because I get to benefit from that.
And this should be remember right plus two whatever I wrote, that's a
critical critical he staunch the bleeding. Yea mm hmm. Everyone is live because
of you, Malevic. Remember that because of me, yes, not the
creature that lives with you. You did that. I'll just stare at the
ground picking in those words. I pat him on the back and walk over
to yarn as Cilia. What healing do you need? M I believe we
all could probably hear something. I look severely fucking wounded, and Asilia is
even worse. I assume you are wounded too. You see me open my
eyes and I'm freezing. I'm moving, but then I pass out from pure
exhaustion. Malavik, make a perception check for me, A sex see something
to the north in that passage catches your eye, looks like a cell.
There are bars and there are creatures inside. Now slowly get up, and
get up, and get up, and I'm just lraising my hand. Had
start slowly to the corner corner of this room so I can barely see inside
inside. So inside this cavern the northwest, you see this reinforced stonemasonry and
a few figures huddling together in the corner of a cell. There what prisoners.
We'll take care of them after we take care of ourselves. If somebody
just us while helping them, we will not survive. Can I tell where
they are? I mean I could see them, but can you tell what?
Yeah? What kind of great? Yeah? They appear to be of
varying races, but they are humanoid. There's a human that sees you,
that stands up and calls out he yes, see. If they're injured,
Malevic, you must send there alive them first. They live because of me.
And I'll walk in one step closer. There are sorry, there are
three of them there are they all human? You said they have a variety,
right, Okay, we will save the malevic come back. Yes,
yes, wait a little longer, we will. We can see like raise
a wobbly finger and they point towards the east. Just nod my head,
and she said, I'll turn back to do but I don't know what to
do to do. There's something here. Yes, we must bye bye.
I'm just just encourage to wait a little longer and longer. Let us go
back to one of the other rooms, the room with the crates. It
is safer, their one entrance not to We will return and save them,
help us, help her, We will. We will say there's someone there,
Yes, what do I do? Are any of them horribly injured?
Can you tell from here? Yes? Apparently medicine check m oh boy boy
fourteen fourteen. They look pretty beat up. Yeah, they're pretty bad bad.
No one belongs in the sale, let alone die in one. Do
you see anything else in the room? Can I smell the air and see
if I cover the sand to get or no, I'm not gonna let you
roll another perception check you've gotten a twenty six. I'm going to say,
yeah, there's something smell a little smells a little familiar. You can't quite
place it, somethings off. I can't trust my senses. Then we come
back after a brief and maybe too late late in their lives. Late it's
too late. What if? What if we what if I do my best
to hear Celia and myself, we unlock the cage and we run said something
soft. It could be with the cage, it could be a trap.
There's something in the east side of the room. I am compelled to look,
but I not yet. He must survive. We cannot help them if
we cannot help ourselves. First, I'll just fall to my knees. Please
please help us. I'll have I put my hands on my head. They
will die if we don't help them, but we will die now if we
go in there and then they also die. All start working on yourself.
I do not think we have time for me to do my usual practices.
Do what you can. You can barely walk. If we go in here
and we're jumped, we die. I'm not trying to abandon them, but
I will not abandon you. Damn it. He's right, we do not
know. We have to hope them. When we can, we will help
them, but not yet. We have to survive first. I will use
a third level, my final third level, realizing my curses moderate level.
I'm on our celia to heal her. Wow, that is terrible. That
is three D twelve, by the way, but it is plus twenty four
so far plus twenty four. There's going to be twenty nine three year old.
Yeah, that's going to be thirty two points of healing. Even with
that shit rule twenty four plus five. I'm three from their curse, okay,
and I will use my final level two on myself and that will be
twenty five twenty seven points of healing. You can heal yourself even with the
curse on right now. Yes, it's originating from other people that they cannot
heal me. Okay, So what is up plan? You can? I
imagine Yara like, this is very taxing for you while you're doing this.
So you see several of the injuries close up. You know, and and
and heal and scab over for our Celia and for Yara. But your definitely
looks trashed. I have an idea, well, saciate all your ways.
I think out of that you are able to move quietly? Yes, yes,
yes, I can only once that I can cast some visibility upon you.
Ten minutes you can inspect. If you do anything, it will be
undone. Anything as an attack, pick up things, anything but a know
how bye bye bye. I looked at the others, Narah, Yes,
that an idea you find acceptable. If it is too much, we must
retreat, all right? Are we in a cord Maravic m you promise me
upon your brother and mother yes is say it? Say it, promise,
and my brother and mother say it again? Look at me. You don't
have time? Yes, we do. What's my brother and my mother?
Good? Thank you. I will ast invisibility upon malevik for ten minutes it
lasts. Don't inspect, do not interact, and then come back and let
us know what is going on. Please you promised. Without a word,
I'll start moving. Okay, Please make a stealth check for me. Melvick,
Hey am re rolling that fifteen reroll thing. I do want to make
notes. It does say it just makes you undetectable. I don't know if
he needs to roll stealth because otherwise they're hidden. If they attempted, creature
attempts to find them. Yeah, really understandable, Elvick. Where do you
go first? I'll go here and look into the cage and get a good
eye on thee Yeah, there are three people inside. Looks like a human.
There's the one that you were talking to. Is a human woman dressed
in some vestments. You've seen the symbol before recently. One of the well,
the person that was on the horse must be one of these people.
I don't say anything, I'll slide. I've never been invisible before, so
I will actually feel as though I am not in like act as I'm stealthy
normally and slide to the corner corner, but not all the way. I
would be here and look at the reactions to the reactions of the they don't
they they're looking around. They saw you just kind of disappeared. They just
yeah, they're they're just kind of looking around, whispering. I'll take another
sniff in the air. Yeah, malvic, Yeah, the smells it's more
noticeable now. It smells like some kind of amalgamation of the skin beetles and
that skin stitch that you met. M hm. You see a person,
I guess a person, and you see a familiar sight of one of those
plant creatures. This person has what appears to be a female human all right,
I'm sorry, not a human hold on a female halfling no sorry gnome,
no apologies female noome that is being held and currently is being looks like
devoured by this creature. Well, his eyes get wide, please please,
screaming and pain. I'll great, mighty, it's trust you so much,
sorrow on my hard walk towards the group. Hello, this is why Stephen
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