Hello, and welcome to the Critical Twits network plays the Hollows tabletop RPG.
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go to the other place if you prefer. We are playing during the backer
Kit period for the Hollows RPG by Rowan Rook and Decard Publishing, written by
Chris Taylor and Grant Howitt. Last time, our brave, somewhat fool hardy
adventurers hunters, they're called hunters in this game. Our hunters made their way
through the graveyards of Grisham Priory, where everyone survived absolutely fine against a horrible,
gribbly beast dog apart from myself who died hideously torn apart. And you
just let it happen, you bastards. So what we're going to do now?
How was I going to pass over to our games master Keith, and
he is going to take us through a little bit of maybe role play,
a little bit of expiration, and then hopefully another really big Ribley boss to
smash me to pieces. Keith, you're in stop me talking love too?
Hello everyone, Yes, I'm Keith Brown. I'll be taking these poor doom
souls through episode two of the Simmons of Christian Priory, currently on back of
kit by Rome Rock and Deckard. As mentioned, I so far have personally
very much enjoyed being able to chomp and stump all of my lovely players.
I mean, you've already heard the lovely man Brian Ennis, and that's me,
an excellent DM player and author who got me into this tabletop role playing
more than a few years ago. So back in the days of our path
I sure do like to change lives. Keith. We've been through a few
of them, so I own a debt. A debt for that. You
can find him infecting every last corner of the critical Twits network, in particular
your own written adventure of Delta Green, which myself and Ryan here attend a
Luna in Victors. Though that is not for the fainthearted. I'm genuinely more
of a broken person for playing it. I think, thank you. That's
the biggest compliment anyone's ever paid to my role. Bay Running Master games.
Jerry Brian can break a man through words alone. It's a power. Well,
moving on, I will also introduce our James Robinson. No, old
lady would I rather have at my side than James can move threats though,
like my soldier Kennon this no, no, she probably adds threats quite significantly.
Yeah, as mentioned I think we mentioned in the previous episode. Yeah,
we've been doing a brindle with Bay playthrough sort of cat for that.
If you love a murder mystery exclusively solved bold women. Yeah, and amazingly
creative role player from my experience so far. Very happy you're able to join
us today. Anything else you'd like to add other than your own sultry inflections
or I'm ready to enjoy a session tonight with you. Okay, threats off
people? I hate it when you do that. There, it makes them
go away all of my power and evilness. Well, and with that we
have Trevor Dale's. The Trevor Dale's a truly lethal accompaniment to any games table,
be you friend or fo the mid max gamer. The brute force instrument
is ours. We love him. I think usually in our long form games
Forever you end up being the end boss, which is, which is something
I'm watching for. I'm not sure how you'll do that today, but it
could happen. It's happened before, It's happened in two of our games.
Yeah, there you go, biggest Yep. You'll see him on the Crest
Car Twitter stream most nights, and hopefully more role playing videos as we go
on. I think I might have reignited the flame in him after our last
session. You have a little bit. He's a bit excited. Is anything
else you'd like to say, Trevor, No, great eulogy, Thank you
very much, Please use it if it's required. Happy to be here,
he's ready to go. He wants that mid max and goodness. And then
we have Ryan Brown. I don't let his calm and pleasant demeanor for you.
Inside there is the mind of a maniac, desperately cruelchloring their way out.
Very happy to have you play with us again. Today always brings you,
Always bring a unique quality to wherever you play alone. You one a
little strangeness. It might be you that you bring through, but but I
appreciate each and every time. As mentioned, you'll hear him on the Lunar
Victors Stelt a Green Show on a role in the Dark podcast and some upcoming
walk Borg. Do you have anything to add as well, Ryan, I'm
just here to see if Trevor actually hits some of his gun this game.
So he yeah, shots fired already, sorry, hours one successful role.
Unlike Trevor shots that one really land and he's already a noble attitude, doesn't
He's superior to everyone at the tables looking down on us common as it's good.
This is evil, mate, that you picked on the world brings it
on easily antagonized. Yeah, that's for sure, And I will say,
finally, and I'm not sure if you can respond, it's Jamie Irland,
the man making it all click together. He's somehow, through some dark twisted
witchcraft, makes us look good. Are you sure we all look ten years
older in real life? It's it's weird how he does it. It's magic.
Thank you for your hard work, Jamie. You both click and clack
away behind the scenes. I don't know if he can respond. It might
just be the whisperings of the ghost. I don't want to mess up his
process. The ghost speaks, Okay. So we entered something called a hollow
last session. What was once Grisham Priory used to be led by Bishop Damian
Locksley, who, to your knowledge, fell corruption greed eventually turned him into
this hollow, and as you came and prepared to break in, you appeared
to be pulled in by a friendly old man called Varick the Occultist, who
then immediately got devoured by our first entity, the Guardian Hound. How did
we all feel that went? In general? And fuckantastic? I mean the
Guardian that the hound is dead? It's dead. Yeah, it was currently
in the graveyard at the moment. Yes, you are in the graveyard and
you're kind of looking onto the it's probably the walls of Chushion prior itself in
front of a large door. But yeah, so as you've got this hound
in front of you, you can channel, you can do something. It's
called a baptism in this game. They've touched on it before. But that's
where you Yeah, you're you're you're going to draw on the entity's power,
a portion of entity's power into your weapons, which allows you to take an
advancement. But each hunter, I mean, they may do it differently,
they may do it the same. Ask you like, how does that look
when you when you take the energy of this this creature, this entity is
once once perhaps faithful pup, now terrible monstrosity. It'll like, if there's
a baptism to be performed, then the priest should be leading the ritual.
Makes sense, the viridian priest in this viridian congregation. Maybe I don't know
I do anything for power. You just tell me how to take it.
I will smear you all with the blood of the sacred soal in order to
heal your wounds. Men, jore broke can bones, reset your shattered teeth,
and return you back to fine fighting fet And then I will leave you
the carcass to do as you wish. I'll dip my bayonet into the into
the carcass, and you see the blood stains kind of vanished off the the
the permanently blood stained weapon for a bit, and it starts to fade back
in after it's absorbed. It. Yes, feed power and blood. Good,
stronger, more capable, ready ready for them. Announces your spear or
suscerates your spear. I don't know how it talks. I mean, it's
it's an ex gun, isn't It was a rifle with a bay the rifles
broken. It may no longer, but it no longer has the will to
fire after what it did. Oh, full of guilt, mechanication mechanically clear
that it just misfires every time. Yeah, I like it, Ryan,
What about your your noble and do they take energy into their their weapon the
rifle? A right, Yeah, I will. I'll simply kneel on the
ground before it head bowed in front of it, and I will polish my
rifle methodically. Takes about ten minutes m hm. And you don't see much
happening. But at the at the end, for a second, there's a
brief glint from the bullet wounds on the beast from where I shot it.
Just glow for a second, Oh, invisible force transferring perhaps, And Trevor,
I will take pistol and knife in hand and plunge them into the creature,
Okay, vigorously shake them about, rattle them about in that, try
and get right in there. I'll try and get as much power as I
can. Okay. It's quite vicious, violent, almost like I wasn't quite
satisfied with how I dealt with the fight. This is my last I can't
imagine where you might be feeling that. Yeah, Okay, And she performed
these rituals. Yes, Oh sorry, I didn't know if yours is like
a generalization or it was just the blood. So the priest will kneel down.
He will wrap his sacred blessed book in the chains that were tired to
this creature's neck in order to protect the book, to hold the book safe
close, and he will chain it to the front of his tabard. Nice
okay, And I say before you, as you, as you go around
butchering and and ministering over this corpse, tending to each of your blades,
your teeth and your wounds. Of your teeth have clattered back into place.
Your wounds have been sealed, your bones unbroken. As you you absorb the
energy of this creature and regain your health and resolve after this fight. As
this happens, you look up and there's the boiling clouds above, kind of
an off pallid green color. Little wind passes through gross these stones. You're
reminded you're in this. This is a hollow, a microdimensional hell born of
greed and trauma. Looking at the priory, you see fine red threads gently
cascading from the twisted tower of the main building. Faint muttering can be heard
from within the walls of the priory, just through the front gate before you.
What do you do? Very sharp? The enemy never sleeps, not
plodding towards the door. I'm sure my gun is loaded. Just in case
you try to trick me later on, I will have a real advantage.
Make that very clear, and I'll follow my companions, okay along as well.
I'll never be at the front. Just to point out, you've got
the soldier that can't be fra take a door, hit me in the face.
So you kind of come through this outer wall of the priory and out
into a cloister. I had to look this up because I forgot what it
meant. But it's kind of like a walled garden, I guess you could
say, or once for something of a walled garden. And you see there
are people here, something like people. It appears to be a makeshift farm
in the outdoor space between buildings. It's been hard going. This tatty looking
potato and turnip plants poke through the thin and gritty soil in clumps, reaching
up to the fairly sun the sky. There's furniture taken from inside the temple
which has been converted into shelters and barricades. Smoldering devotional candle abrahs teeter precariously
atop piles of wardrobes, pews, and moth eating chaise lounges. The entire
thing is a death trap, but they've held out until now. At the
center of this cloister is a shrine covered in images of the dead, painstakingly
drawn in charcoal by a careful, shaking hand. There is a urn a
top it, and you know immediately that this is a relic. It is
something of power. It shimmers differently in this world, and I guess if
this was a video game, it would kind of be hovering and glowing.
Yes, this ian holds the accusing ashes. Congregation might not be willing to
let them go the last remnants of their these loved ones. Bargaining, threatening,
or bribing them could work. Attacking them definitely will if you've put the
stomach for it. So you see these like emaciated people, they look like
they've never eaten, and they're kind of dragging themselves about. Someone kind of
digging in the dirt. Some seem to be have like half broken tools.
They're digging around. Someone just sitting and staring at the at the sky,
but appears to be quite a few of them rabbling around at it. They
appear to have their wits about them Keith as well. They made a lot
of noise outside. They are all very much like almost waiting for you as
you come in. They were aready, well, I say, waiting for
you. They didn't know if you were going to survive. Oh okay,
but they look up almost hopefully she come through the door, hopefully as in
their saviors. Who knows. M hmm. Now do you remember on your
character sheets the top right that yeah, really little role playing advantagey things you
can get. Yeah. They all appeared to be like in faintly monastic robes
that maybe once these were white, like monks robes or something long since turned
brown and black. Here's a slightly metaphysical question, right, go on,
are these real people or are they just part of the projections of the hollow
and the diseased mind that has created the hollow. You will know them to
be the roles, which are are a thing that when this thing blossomed into
a hollow, it would have taken things with it. So the people that
might have been here will have come with it. You also know time passes
about ten times quicker in a hollow as it does to outside, So these
people might have been here for a very very long time. And do they
if we if we saved the hollow, if we clear the hollow, do
they survive? Do they return like you do once we come out of a
hollow? So that isn't described in the book. I'm going to say the
thing. It does mention something about sanctuary you can kind of take people there.
It also mentions that it's harder to fix things, but you can,
right, okay, which implies to me you could try and help these people,
so morally, maybe they'll be able to get out. It would be
wrong to just walk in and go these aren't real people and just gun them
all down. Yeah, I mean, depends on how your character used these
these desperate, emaciated thralls. They're like the furniture and the beast. It's
one of them. It's one of them, a candlestick. One of them
does a little bit teap Oh nice, it looks like a teapot. All
the others look really thin. I've got issues with that guy. It's well,
yeah, it's all bone. It's just a really big rib cage actually
have the it does have that, I believe it one of them. There
is a taller one perhaps in like it. There's a bit of a ribbon
or the remains of a maybe fat, slightly fancy rope to stand up and
look at you. We were to wander towards the special, would they look
a bit sheepish, a bit nervous stopping us getting closed? They're watching you,
watching, that's all you all? You know. One of them has
kind of stood up and with maybe a group of them behind them, is
standing there and the biggest, strongest person should go pick it up. Do
you talk? How if they out there? Yes, yes, we talk?
Did you did you kill it? It is dead? Well? So
sometimes it returns, but that is a this is a good thing. We
want to purge this hollow and free your souls. Which way do we go?
Uh? I don't even know how you would do that? Hm?
The creatures are in this? Is it mentioned? Abby? We're just farmers,
and Villian sect teaches us. We farm, we we grow, we
prepare the soil for the coming new Eden. It remained true to our faith
and or will be set right? Or will be set right? Can you
tell us of that vessel up there. That is the blessed ashes of of
those of our kin. They are all we have left of our of our
past, our four fathers. They they are what's left of who starved.
You're here to help. We all need more people to tend a spade and
a hoe. We still tend no spade or to hold no hoe. We're
here to cleanse this place. This is our home. When it's closed,
your return back for a better place than this. You come, you tell
us, it's more, where did you come from? Who are you?
People? Were hunt? I can't say the word hunter. We're hunters.
Hunters. Mhmm. What foul monsters are in this place? If we go
up these stairs, I'm assumming I'm going on this picture here. Yeah,
as a warning with a picture, it's a little bit if I find it
a little bit confusing to figure how things connect together. But you do see
obviously you see steps going up to that tower. You mentioned. There's also
a door through on the other side of the cloister. And yeah, and
I'll say there's a there's a there's another door in here that appears to be
locked shut. Ask them what will we find if we go up to this
vestry. Oh, the you will find her, the the tailor. She
takes us sometimes and you want to be free of her. Yes, it's
terrible. Then it will be done. Oh it's such a same, thank
you, we can please. And one of them like trust to offer you
a really really sad looking turnip. Mm hmmm, it's it's really oddly shaped,
and we're proud around my neck. There's long, floppy, this like
dry emaciated man, like a single bloody tear drops down his face. There's
there's something like a little bit off about all these people as well, like
like maybe another joint where maybe there shouldn't be like where this this this hollow
is twisted. Their mouthformed them. They shouldn't be standing in the state for
one for the turn of people. And these ashes it oh wait, these
ashes, they I said, power within them meaningful to us. You'll want
that thing killed our gesture upwards. Yes, let's take a look. I
will go up and I'll investigate this. Oh okay, ashes please, yes,
you may look. Yes, And it seems like there's quite reverence.
There's there's all of these little little monumental things, little little carvings, lots
of calve turnips around this this central thing and again these charcoal drawings, all
the people they've lost, children, mothers, fathers. It's like they're not
very good. But there's there's a whole life, generations of people here.
It's a big urn. And you can see that this is well. You
as a hunter, you sense this paramedia. You know exactly what this can
do. Yeah, and now this is one use mechanically, as a use
action from close you can reduce reduce one of the entity's defenses by two.
And it's effective against any entity of English and priory. And is that forever
to it just goes down. So my close defense for the hound was nine,
it would make it seven. So you're that much more likely to get
superior successes. That's quite ten. Spack it I. The loved ones are
gone, but the power of their souls lives on within this. Let me
take them with us. Perhaps they can aid you one last time before they
go to their final rest. Okay, I would like a roll. I'd
like a roll of some kind. So you tell me what stat you think
I mean. I guess it might be wise unless you've got shark where an
intelligent could be so wise? Like trying to use my holy wisdom STARp maybe
trying to trying to use those. It also says roll with advantage when you
interact with animals, get up to your elbows in mud and shit, will
persuade someone to let you into their nice, clean home, etca. I
feel like, nice, please, let let them let you do something that
they maybe don't want not don't want to, but I'm taking something nice from
them, nice home. But I mean that's very specific, it is very
specific. Yeah, but as an example, I thought that that what I'm
trying to do is let them get them to do something important to them,
like letting you in somewhere nice and clean. I'm defiling the cleanness of their
of their dead friends, right, yeah, I mean you're you're yeah,
you're probably covered in grave mud. Okay, yeah, okay. I think
the fact that you're also a Verdian, you're a priest of the Ridian sect,
it's kind of I mean, they might they might have some misgivings about
their current predicament, but they clearly are their worshipers, their their congregation of
the Verdian Church, so maybe they take some extra So I'll let you have
that. Yeah, cool, and the wise or sharp. I would say
wise, it sounds that you're trying to well, no, that's no intuitive,
introspective or mystical. More like this, I'm talking about souls. Okay,
that makes sense. You'll being a bit mystical. I have rolled four.
That's a success. As I say, you haven't done this in a
combat way. So yeah, I'm gonna say that, because if they've got
like their own stats and health and damage in this case, I think you've
just succeeded. So yeah, tell me how this looks. What do you
say? It's kind of like it's just, oh, we have left,
it's the last last we have. I would say, let your ancestors care
for you one last time and deliver you from the tyranny and from above.
This will help, This will cleanse, to reverse some of the the horror
in our gardens. I will lift up the ashes proudly. Mm hmm.
They all seem to follow up their eyes, and they kind of some of
them start praying and and like some small amount of whaling. We thank we
thank our ancestors for their their final sacrifice. It's a make part, isn't
it. Yeah? Yeah, I mean yeah, you can carry it.
You've got like a satchel or something. Yeah, I'm gonna take a smear
of the ash and just annoint the forehead of all of my holy warriors.
Want advantage for every fight going forward now, And that's cool. So that,
yeah, they accept you. They seem to accept this, this ritual,
and they they kind of almost all come up to you and surround you
and start like that thing while they're almost like touching your faces and they're like,
thank you, save us even and they're almost too weak to left their
arms, but they're like surrounding you and they don't like they let you leave.
They also, I'm just going to give them some tips on how to
restore the soil to grow better turnips while we're there. Okay, just just
while I'm doing it, please elaborate in character. My character will use their
knowledge to in characters say we know turnips. We have the wormary through there
around the bones of the massive dog. Refresh the soil. We already have
the holy wormury, the best soil, the precious soil. Well that I'm
scared you all know, as a prigian preach a priest, that a lot
of these places have wormuries. It's genuinely like a giant compost heap where they
got the thousands and thousands of worms. And it's possibly. I mean,
it's funny because remember on your on the interview and Grant how he starts talking
about worms. That's what it came from, which I like. I like
that YouTube dot com critical twits. The man is is a lot, but
in a very good way. So yeah, we do. He's got great
energy and he's got some great, great ideas as well. I'm going to
give that part once we're out of sight. I'm giving it to the soldier.
Okay, as they said, by the way, they did point to
the door opposite to the one you came in. So you've got the door
opposite to this wormery, and you've got upstairs, which you understand needs to
the table with what the old soldiers said, do you Yeah? I think
I think the soldier's chosen a bit awkward. Sorry, I saw a turn
up and just went, let's go. The soldier is very noble iron turnips.
I'm not used to noble players who were playing a little more borg and
it's just like I killed them all. How do we toalch of them?
I have a tendency of playing noble players in general. Yeah, it's good.
It's good, so inner nobility, nothing but bastards. It's bastards all
the way down. Some very good on borders gate, Thank you very much.
It's the one time. Yeah, okay, as you traverse, say,
between these columns, like there's like a series of blood columns leading and
holding up around the wedge of the wall before these stairs. What Eve almost
trips over there is these these tiny red threads are strung between some of these
spaces and between the banisters. As you go up, there's these tiny little
red threads, black one so well like a harp. It is tense,
it is under tension, and that when you pluck it, it doesn't feel
quite like strength. I feel like, yeah, what I what do it
feel like? To me? A bit more jerky, like, okay,
do you see the red the Okay, they're all red. I would have
done the military hand signals, but I don't think anyone else would recognize.
To the wire, just be like, brother, you're blessing us in some
way, So you be cain heading up the stairs, I presume, yeah,
into the vestry. And now as you start moving up the stairs,
this noise starts getting louder and loud. It's like clicking clacking, click clap,
click, click click. It just gets louder and louder. And as
you open the door at the top of these stairs, it's kind of stair
away like a little thing. You just get this smell wash over you of
blood, of cloth steal and oil washes out and you can just hear this.
This clicking sounds like a machine going over and over and over again.
And before you there is just bolts and bolts of cloth hanging over almost like
overlapping and underlapping and hide into each other and threaded together. This is this
is going to cause a barrier. You're gonna have to break through this if
you want to proceed, So lay it out to you. You can kind
of you ca can't, like you weighed in a little way, but before
you know you've it just becomes very difficult. So you can either make a
target number fourteen sharp so it's a harder roll, or you can make a
tugging number ten strong, but it's going to do sorry, which way around
is It's gonna be easy to break through on a strong roll, but you
could suffer to doom if you fail. But it's a harder role for Sharp,
and there's much less there's less consequences. It is quite sharp. If
you don't stop me, Priest, I'm about to chuck you through. You
throw him through and he uses Sharp to chop it. Mate. What you
need is a hound to throw that priest through there, because anyone can throw
a priest like the hound, oh boy, strength to try and chop through
unless you've got unless you're at wits or a bit sharper way. I'm very
sharp, but I've also had the spotlight a lot, and I think I'm
the only one that's rolled the dice so far. So I feel like you
were marching up the front. You were determined. I think you should go
and do it in the best way you know. Do you hear the consequences?
Bran? Yeah, okay, I don't know if I explained before.
We'll find out what Doom does in a bit. Yeah, just for anyone.
I don't know if I explain this before, but we're currently on Free
Doom, and that's because Brian's character, the Priest died last game until we
had to come out of the sanctuary. The sanctuary, it's like a lot
the force of opening the door back into the into the follow It doesn't want
to be opened, It doesn't want to be into it. It kind of
increases this uh, this doom and doom probably sorry, because that's where Vetric
is now, isn't it. I haven't told this lot that he's still doom
kind of represents this hollow waking up to the invaders as it does the s
get something about the way the walls are pieced together, the you're cutting yourself
on splinters more the things look slightly sharper, and all the coralors are slightly
longer, like things are more wrong. It's reacting to you. And if
it gets higher, that represents mechanically. As the monsters that you fight get
tougher, they get more abilities. So sorry, did you want to roll
strong to move through this cloth, this hanging cloth wedding almost or did you
want to roll sharp? Das has already rolled strong, rolled and rolled ready
to roll. I'll cover you. I'm gonna say yes, yes, does
your hands like a good soldier? And I'll keel down with my rifle.
What they're ready? This guy that the way bought me long? What a
cock a? Get it shooting? A gun dom I rolling or strong.
Go for it strong, So I have to get twelve are under So if
you're running strong, it's a target number ten, but you're static. If
you're stats twelve, then yeah, between ten and twelve we'll get your superior
success eleven. Oh nice, what damage does your weapon do? Slash three?
Right? So you what is it? You're using your spear just like,
but it's less cutting motion. It's more battering out the way as you
kind of swing through these these layers and forging into it. Ben a charge
into it, yeah, and some of it flicks out the way, some
of it you charge through, Yeah, and you kind of make your way
for the thick of it, and you kind of come out to slightly more
spaced out area and everyone else can follow. You don't have to make the
same role. And so as you come through, you see silks bolts of
linen. It's kind of like wide a larger area, and sheets a fine
lace hang from the s in this chamber, but they do little to absorb
the noise of the chattering, grinding textile machinery and the rattles away of its
own accord. Great piles of diaryach as high as the rafters saffron yellow,
rich purple and boreal green and man side spindles of crimson thread blur at the
speed of their ceaseless rotation. At the center of this web crouches the tailor,
who endlessly weaves a grand tapestry at the behest of the bishop. Their
vital work interrupted, they lash out of the hunters as they approach. So
we are in a combat. You what this lovely lady looks like? I
like it, but also I don't like it. Yeah, they're making clothes
for herself. Impressive consider that. Well, it's got a nice corset thing
maybe going on, and likes quickly bonded to a mechanical thing as well.
Yeah, there's like this machine that she's kind of well, she's kind of
hanging off of it. The thread is coming out of the machine going through
her. For anyone watching, it's kind of a I don't know, it's
like hondous. I think what the creature looks like is in pans labyrinth for
the thing with the hands, kind of got the head of that, but
with like needles for arms and scissors for feet and almost like wedding of silk
coming off. It's unpleasant. True that I try my monster voice for her.
Yeah, okay, company mates, Yeah, will roll first or roll
first, Roger Taylor, roll sharp bursus the entity's arranged defense, which is
nine, and tell me what you get. Oh, actually, don't count
mind yet. I've gott to roll it properly. Yeah, h all right,
who'd you'll go first? I rode one. So that's the success of
Brian. So you get to choose were bigger to go before the creature or
you're going to get to choose where you set up. I'm going one or
the other go first. Okay, So I get to place you yes,
cool, I will keep that in mind, right, Jane. Yeah,
you get well and my sharp is eight. So you failed yep. Okay,
I get to put you where I want. Yeah, and you go
after the endy? Hey, Ryan, Yeah, I got twelve under fourteen
sharp nice and above this defense. Right. Yeah, So you've got superior
success, which means you can both go first and choose where you go.
Yeah, ranged front over there cool and then Trevor last I failed. I've
got fifteen normal fail cool. So again I get to put you where I
want and you go after yep. So the only one he chose to get
placed where they wanted was Ryan. He's put himself on ranged front, right,
Yeah, let me just see what horrible things I can do. Okay,
this lady is very, very mean. Who's going to be bad?
So last time the soldier calls me a lot of problems. I did not
like the soldier. I'm going to start the soldier in support. You like
your meta gaming? Absolutely? She watched from the window her dog. You
killed her dog mate, it's her put Oh now I feel nothing, you
feel nothing? Yeah? Yeah, So the soldier has been putting support,
which isn't necessarily where you want to be on the first got right when I
want to go probably mm hmmm, I'm going to put you back here too.
So priest is also going in ranged front. I might be doing this
really badly. We'll find out as we go. Funny, Trevor, you
really hope I'm not in the rear? Oh god, you really want to
be in that real rubbish? I feel like I probably want you in the
same place, nice clustered together. That sounds like fun be okay. Yeah,
and you just hear she kind of descends from the ceiling at you on
these threads and with spider leg just here like this clicking sound there is that
the scissors snip and the needle like arms to click and clatter along the sides
of the walls. She descends on you. I have no idea what it's
said. There any terrain in this fighting yes, thank you for reminding me.
So you are in a decrepit textile factory. There are walkways, offices,
rigging machinery, moldering bolts of red cloth that comes forward US three,
sheltered and free elevated. Now, terrain is very, very powerful in this
game. That is a hint for you. That's all I'm going to say.
So that is available on the board to be grabbed. Now we are
starting with we have two pools of initiative. We have Brian and Ryan priests
and the noble before the entity. Then the entity is going to go,
and then we have James and Trevor the soldier and the experiment. So,
Brian and Ryan, what would you like to do? I'm going to go
first, if that's all right, for tactical reasons. So this thing is
kind of I feel like we've gone in. We're looking around and it's kind
of jumped in almost behind us, which has left the soldier who is leaving
the way further in kind of attacked you, like ambushed you a little bit.
Yeah. So I'm going to spin round and pull off the book and
all the chains binding it to the priests, back fling forward as our march
towards it, and command you. I command you just settle down and sorry,
I command you to sit down and die, and I'll move towards it.
But I will, so that'd be a move to me. So I'm
front center, and then I'm going to try to to do this as sort
of nip, he said. There's all sorts of cover. I want shelter
basically doing this, so maybe keeping a couple tumbled over bolts of cloth between.
I'll see you're moving forward and then diving into cover, are you sorry?
Yes? Yeah, I want to be close to it. Okay,
I'll explain that in a second. So I'll roll to take cover. Yeah,
so to take shelter, you're rolling quick to claim it? Is that
an eighteen or nine? These very different numbers. Yeah, it says eighteen
and a hover on it, even though it definitely doesn't if it looks eight
eight, So that sounds Is that a success and what I'm rolling under.
Sorry, quick, quick, I get sheltered. Oh am, my quick
is garbage. No, it's not my quicks seven. Well no, that's
that doesn't mean you just don't necessary It doesn't mean you necessarily lose it.
So you'd have a choice. You can either suffer one resolve damage as you
over exert yourself and you'll dive into this cover. Yeah, you can place
one threat in your areas you kind of loudly tumble through the take a resolve.
And the reason I'm going to take that resolve is that it's the first
time the book has ever done this. But as I step forward and step
behind these things, all the chains that were attached and dangling, so all
the chains were holding the book to me, and they pull off of their
own free will. And as I step forward, they start lashing, stretching
out really long towards this beast, trying to try to tether it, trying
to grab its many arms, trying to pin it down, trying to leash
the creature in front of me. Who's the real monster here, Brian?
You considious, evil puppet master bastard? Cool, that's my goal, You're
weird, Ryan, that's you my friend. Oh you didn't attack, You
don't at any threat. Fine, yeah, let's add some for it.
So I'll say, learn your place, Taylor, and I'm gonna take a
big old shot at it, a big old shot so from range that is
range defense nine is not as strong against range as the other creature was,
are you. I'm not going to focus or anything first round. Yeah,
you have a maneuver. I'm gonna dump it down here and then leave it
to you. Guys, leave leave it, leave it for I love it.
Curiosity once you fire is another maneuver to reload. Yeah, So everything
has a capacity. So Ryan's got four brothers, got one one, and
I've got one. I've only had one. So you need to reload.
Do so in support. If you end your turn in support, you reload
automatically. If you start your turn and support all you're very low's back and
you get to resolved. Yeah, and then there's other things you can do.
Uh huh yeah, target number nine. Yeah, I got an eleven,
which is under my fourteen sharp. So that's superior success or am I
still getting it wrong? That's a superior success. So you're doing wound damage
this thing as you shoot it. Oh nice, how much money damage?
What's the second number? So that's two wound damage? But also I get
satisfaction. Nothing like spill blood to clear the mind, which is the one
I picked. When I inflicted with damage, I gain a focus. Very
nice. You did this last time, didn't you free damage straight away and
then just do it again? That would probably travel. Yeah, the first
that was our practice, clayer, I think, oh okay, yeah,
yeah, see too damage. I'm gonna give you some threat for that piece
of ship. No, because he's not going to keep it. I hope
you got this time. Oh you, and I'm going to run to range
left as my maneuver. I have a lot of choices now, appause you
have scattered Them's kind of handy. Oh wait when you hit so I think
this just happens all the time. Um, maybe start with check Yeah no,
just a suited senses, skin and nerves become silk and needles, all
poised and ready for the kill when a hundred hits of an attack placed one
additional threat on their area. So you get to each other at my friend,
thank you, and I run away, I remembering the stuff. You
run into range left? Is that all right? Yeah? Yeah, so
you're circling around it. Okay, at Trevor, that's where the shots came
from. She believes you as she doesn't interrupt and to spend some of that
lovely results at some TeV square. So it's a target target Trevor, the
the experiment in ranged front with puncture bound to her thrumbing heart. She shoots
a needle straight at you. It's a target number six hard. I'm not
very hard to be fair though, it's a very low target number board.
I've got nine still failed. You failed under that? Oh mane Okay,
that's good to damage as is this. This needle, like the size of
a finger, goes straight through. So we'll say the side you get to
place a curse on you as well. There's this needle. This needle had
thread attached to it, and you are now thread it into her web.
So yeah, if you put that, I don't know. Yeah, I
guess that makes sense. That's good. Yeah, I keep it on one
at the moment, and anyone who's not got a curse maybe just move their
thing behind the sheets so I know what's going on. But that was fun.
I like that. Okay. So as she does this, those chains
are going to carry on lashing her and her attention it's focused elsewhere, and
they're going to grip and slap and try to tire up. And anytime she
doesn't interrupt or she repositions one of my allies, she loses a resolve damage
from the leash my book. Oh that's awful. Is that when I'm near
to you? Is there a rule? So when I'm in close, I
have to be close. You have to be close. And that's why I
ran in, like hid behind some carpet. Kill the priest first. Well
that makes sense. That's good. Yeah, because Shelter, I think,
just takes one less damage every time. So she takes a resolved damage.
He does a sucking up already. Yeah, that's both your goals. I
believe she now gets to strike. Oh was that just an entrupt from her?
Jesus. That so she's on seven resolve and six wounds. Now,
yes, I couldn't do one interrupt around. Yeah, at the end of
each players, go players, Jesus, the theory has five times in a
round. Yeah, that is if I have the threaten only if there's nothing
to AoE friendly to me right now? Can experiment? Did the experiment take
wound damage. So you are now on two three wounds. I got an
extra one from the updated PDF. Cool okay. As his chain started lashing
up at her and she looks down at you and she does this ceiling which
you kind of It was very dark in here, as a strands hanging down.
There's there's maybe bits of cord. There's lots of noise going up there.
This machine as she kind of descends on you with her claws. This
machine comes down too and just almost lands on you. Make a Brian,
the priest in front, make a target number eight quick roll ha ha ha
five. So that's a success to resolve damage. This attack does five wound
damage if it succeeds, it does and it does lots of other horrible stuff
if it wounds it. So the thing kind of lands on you managed to
just get out of the way, but like maybe you're cut like on a
hundred little times, not enough to do a wound, but enough to like,
let's shake you. So you take two resolved damage and I take one
resolved damage because I'm in shelter. Yes you do. Sorry. If this
attack its wound damage and resolving a targets called a machinery. No, so
that's that's it. That attack is basically absolutely wrecks you or doesn't do that
much. But I guess that's true for most things. Uh. Cool.
And at the end of her turn, she's going to get four threat to
place on the board. You unfortunately didn't get to seven doom. That would
have made more nice things happened A interesting right, I what do I want?
This? Right? Brother is back here? One for you? Wow,
who for you? Hang on? And one for the So you pop
two into into me. There's now two on Trevor. There's one on Ready,
wasn't it Yeah, but that's now two on Trevor and there's one on
Ryan. Yes, yeah, you can't. No, I cannot put the
threats and support. So that is my go. It is now James and
Trevor's go priest, sorry, not the priest, the experiment and the soldier.
You're gonna go first, James Or dropped me to go first, Go
Trevor. You ca it, Okay, I'll get my shot missed out the
way quickly. That's fine, mate, all right. I will to begin
with then aim my lovely hand cannon at this big beasties face m hm and
try and shoot it off. It's very nice. You are ranged attack right,
so that's not range number. Yeah, got six, that's a success.
You're going to do resolved damage? Yeah? How much resolved damage is
that? That will just be three three out? Oh it's your handcan,
isn't it? Yeah? Resolve it does three and three three damn? Oh
well, then use my maneuver, take step back and hide and support bil
a little abandoned. He're not gonna lie. You got a soldier to come
run in and save you, now, mate, if you go soldier,
if you want to be center of my my administrations, I am happy to
administrations because I'm a priest. Yeah. That was intentional, of course in
my favorite character. Sorry, I need to I'm going to interrupt. Now,
you have a you have a curse on you. My did ever that.
Firstly, you need to be taken threat. When you hit me,
I forgot about that's the wrong arranged arranged Oh you've got into support. I
didn't even pay attention to that. That sucks to me. Now for a
threat on ranged from arranged front, I can't cursed. That makes me sad.
Yeah, okay, fine, I'll attack, I'll attack the noble oh
no, that's not the word I thought you would say. You have got
to you. No, I want to use that to maybe stop you from
killing me. Yeah, so you're going to get a target number six hard
role noble. What's your hard skill? Is eleven three? Pretty tough?
Both? Who isn't hard? Always hard? It didn't need to be said
eleven eleven? Half the experiment is at least hard. Good to know.
Okay, so you just took resolved damage. I believe it was just a
straight success, wasn't it. Yeah, so if it inflicts damage and it
is resolved damage, it's just not being damage. You're going to get a
curse. So put that dice to one and take one one resolved damage.
Okay, my dice is good. Miss Oh don't hear its? Did I
spend that? I don't know if I did, I did? How did
you say I flipped the dice to actually just pressing highlight it with your mouth
without doing anything to press the number one? Thank you? No worries to
ras that an interrupt? That was an interrupt. So I take a resolve.
I cashed you down. Damn your priest, take more resolved damage.
I think every game there's gonna be a person like yeah, yeah, it's
just it's not particularly powerful in particular. Hunter, It's just in my mind,
I'm going to hide behind the soldier and heal him right and allow him
to protect me. Intert uh Yeah, how has that has? That book's
spinning? Is it the book that's doing this stuff? And the book's got
the Yeah, it's a book ability to right, it's got all the chains
that like a chained book. Yeah, in a role play game that you
should never pick up, but you should. Yeah, it's one of them.
But the chains are like slapping into the cool when you hear this,
like rustling emergro of the book as you're holding into your chest and you're kind
of behind the this red bolts and youre control. Yes, yes, the
change. We find all of the weaknesses, we find a way in,
we learn, we know, we find out our weakness. Then we can
take her apart. Yeah, James, that was the book. Yeah cool,
James, you can go. Sorry, Okay, I just want to
put your go off as long as I can. It's fine. So I'll
do my move maneuver. And does that mean I go I jumped straight past
this range one and go straight to the front. No one move gets you
one bit forward. You could come in a range right, you could come
in to range left, or you can come in range front. With your
first maneuver, travel between two adjacent side Does it say that? Oh?
Was that in the actual between two? So not across too, So you're
going from one to the other. Yeah, two adjacent, So that your
next ranged front. So those of your two adjacent blocks, So you'd move
into race with Jason, you'd move into range front. So you could come
into range right or range left, because you take up that whole thing,
so you could you don't have to come through the front if you're kind of
amongst the tapestries and cloth and you can imagine what you want. But you
are going to be ranged with that first maneuver. Okay, I will,
I'm coming. I'm coming to help the priests. So I'm going to flop
forward. What he's very noble, do another move? Maneuver to move again?
You're just getting in front. That's fine. We've now got the soldier
and the priest bravely stood right in front of this beast, right close in
front of it. We've got the noble skulking at range left and then the
experiments had enough. He's run off amongst some yard and he's playing with and
I'm still ready at the end of my turn. Okay, so I can
expend. I can shift one threat in my area to an adjacent with my
new ability not more threat movement. Okay, go, go go. So
I can. Yes, I like it. I could still move some threat
even doing a double move. Okay. Right, so currently I can't attack
anyone else with an interrupt apart from you two in the front. There's only
one threat there. So I'm going to spend another threat to puncture, and
I think it is going to have to be the priest. So that's a
target number six hard roll hard. I'm averagely hard. Well, you are
quite hard. It's a low target number. It's a high roll fail.
Yeah, Okay, there's this need or so you'd kind of duck up to
see if you're change. Your book's whispering to you and telling you these not
things. And as you kind of like to take a glance of this thing,
you look up and you see it's looking right over and a needle just
straight down through the shoulder and does two wound damage to you. Okay,
one wound damage because of a cover. One won damage because of the cover.
Yes, maybe it comes through the cloth, but it pierces you,
but it would have done. And you are You've got one curse on you.
So that was the interrupt A little curse thing in front of me.
Okay, bice, Ryan's go right? Uh, Priest and noble? Yeah,
do you want to go first this time? Ryan? Yeah? Yeah,
targets bit off me. I'm going to calmly line up the sight whilst
it whales on the priest, so I will use my medium to gain another
focus of our too focused Now, because you're special, you can have up
to five, whereas you can probably only have one, can't you there's only
one normally I don't know how many it was, but yeah, and the
focus is two dice when you roll, yeah, I get advantage. Sorry,
this is very important. I should tell you all with the curses,
I should have mentioned this Before's apologies. As a use action, a hunter
may roll under strength. On any success, you remove all curses from one
hunter in their area, so you can help each other all yourself. On
a failure, you remove one curse from a hundred areas. You can remove
these strands that are sticking through your body. But how did you say we're
removing with what? Roll under strength? And it takes a maneuver or strength
strong a roll under strength on the success I guess yeah, because it means
screwed some to pull this pull it up? Who's up? Yeah, so
I've gained a focus another one okay, and yeah I'm going to line up
a perfect shot, so I wait till it stabs the priest and take my
shot. So advantage. So that's one guys and the other. So yeah,
bess is eleven. Wait, what's the racing to hit it? Sorry?
You're arranged right, so target number nine? Number nine? Okay,
yeah, so I'll go, yeah the eleven then, so I've hit it,
but resolve on eleven? Yeah, what did your roll? Because that's
oh is that still under your stats? That's a target up. That's a
superior success. Sorry, yeah, of course, yeah, I forgot so
wound damage straight up brutal damage. She's getting wrecked. She's down to four
wounds and three resolve. You guys are just minting her. It's over half
damage already. She's like eight and eight. Yeah, how do we know
if she's if someone's curse by they've got the dice on there, these little
ones. And did she take her resolved damage for in to wrapting and needling
me? No, she probably didn't. Okay, I don't think she did
too. And four bad She's just made out of cloth. What do you
expect? Yeah, I thought she'd be a lot scarier. I did my
mean attack can kill you one go damage if you hear? Uh cool,
Okay, that's fine. I've got a plan. For some reason, I
keep mean to kill the priest, but the priest just upsets me. Yeah,
it's it's Brian's go. Now. Oh I'm not I'm looking at going.
Can I do something defensive? But I'm not actually like badly hurt or
anything. I've I've lost some resolve and i've lost wound. So I think
I'm gonna I'm gonna guard, which allows me to restore to resolve. Plus
I get next to me, thanks James. I going to say, I
don't know if I get a boat next to James, I believe that I
only lost to Yeah, I'm going to guard, and then I'm going to
shoot it with my shotgun. Oh that shotguns. I don't like it.
I can't do anything I've got my friends in my area. It's threaded me,
hasn't it. So we're kind of entangled. Its threaded me. The
chains are attacking it, and I want to basically try to pull it in.
I know we're close. I want to pull it in and try to
put my shotgun into its chest and pull the trigger. Okay, target umber
end. I've got fourteen sharp, I've rolled a thirteen. Oh my god,
you too resolve damage. You've got superio. You's got superior mate an
you oh two wound damage? Sorry, yeah, Jesus sorry, Brian would
pay with the next monster. One more rifle shop and you get two threat
tokens on you for that cool. I will say you shall reap what you
so well, which is a really good joke because it's a tailor. It's
pretty good. It was a really good joke. The volume of the applause,
interested look of boredom that swept across Oh man, that's happening already.
I'm it's my go round. I'm just thinking whether to interrupted. You know,
it costs me another fucking resolve because this goddamn priest. So I'm just
going to gain a focus back because I forgot that when I would I get
a focus. Okay, we have rolled really well. It's also helped that
Trevor's only really had the opportunity to roll one dice so far. She did.
Actually, I'm going to spend a maneuver to shake it off, drug
it off. She kind of almost ascends a little way into the rafters and
maybe some of the cuts are stitched back together with a little wow. She
doesn't look like she could stitch herself. She's got good, she's good at
this. She knows what she's doing. She stitches some of a together,
covers them with fresh red thread. Maybe the machine behind her almost seems to
help, almost like it's mentally there with her this nightmare. And she is
going to desperate vicious web maneuver, fabric walls twitch and constrict, driving you
deeper. Target any area of less than three free threat, free threat,
shift up the three threat to that area from an adjacent area. Howether,
because you have free doom, that's four threat? So what two? Three?
All the threat into front? So how is that six threat on the
the soldier and the priest? Yes, it is too on the noble and
the exper experience is chilling and support then the experiments just doing this stuff at
the back. Okay, ravenous mangle, I'm going to make the target number
lots. What's your scar? Yeah, you can expand threat to make stuff
more difficult, well, can't you. Yeah, so it's going to be
a target number eight quick defense. Your quick is already very low. I
assume you're talking to me. Yeah, I mean, either way, you
can't. You can't get superior success about this. There's actually no point I
mean doing that threat right now. I won't know what you've done to him,
but that he really hates this priest. Yeah, I cheated. I
cheated. I just did two maneuvers. Sorry, that's another maneuver. I
did the resolve to heal, and then got confused because I was thinking of
interrupting. I mean, shitloaders throttle and not attack. No, no,
no, it's fine. I'm going to attack you, Ravenous mangal as the
machine again comes out almost from behind you, this time because she's kind of
partially ascended and almost comes back from behind and wearing nest of gear and shuttle
razor sharp. This is the really horrible one, isn't it so? Tiger
number eight Quick being cursed to just any of the numbers in plate. So
this is the thing that it does affect some of my skills. Okay,
but I don't think it does anything. I'd like to die in every fight.
I kind of feeling now, if established it in the opening episode,
I feel like if it was another all play game, you come back as
his brother and in each episode different priests relative a slightly different regional accent.
Yeah no, I'm not going to right. Uh h, I reckon that.
The camera didn't see that. When I get to roll it again,
right, let's have a look. Fifteen. I think that is five wound
damage. Oh but it doesn't kill you by insane, so knock off five
wounds please, my friend. This is exciting though, because now stuff happens.
If this attack inflicts wound damage, the entity recovers four resolves, it
mangles you up. Yeah yeah, so I am back on full resolve straight
for the wounds, and the target is caught in the machinery. You may
not hard move or be repositioned until you are freed. As a US action,
any hunter may roll under strength to free hunter in their area for the
machinery. On any success, the target can act as normal. So you're
currently getting chewed up and sewed and like there's a needle like machine. It's
just going like into your back over and over and over and over and over
again. Is it like punctures, punctures, punctuous thread. You've got like
lines of silk going over your back and across your body. It's not a
good time. I don't like it. And that were that should be five
wounds, yeah, but four you're right, you're right because you took one
less. I'm going to recover. It's so powerful because it's also there's anything
that just does one wound or one damage. It just presumably it just doesn't
I don't know if it's like an a minimum of one. It doesn't say
that on the cupboard, does it. It just says wound. Yeah,
just reduce one damage. Yeah, just one less damage. So if you
have hats, it will hurt. Yeah. Uh. It's back to James
and Trevor the friend. There's been a nice can I'm make a suggestion.
I'm going to help you get out the thing. Or if James goes first,
he can remove threat from the area that we're in. If Trevor goes
next, the monster can use an interrupt and attack us before James gets to
act and remove that threat. Okay, so said, what can't I do
if I'm pinned? So you are in the machine, you may not guard,
move, or be repositioned into your freed, which does leave open attack.
So I think you can still attack. I could use a maneuver you
as a use action hunt to roll under strength. It is up to you
whether you want to or not. I'll use a maneuver to free the priest.
Okay, you have to roll under strength then to successfully free him as
you're trying and pull the needles apart and then met mechanical arms or one.
So that's a definitely success. So how's this look? This mess? You
look bad, but we've lived through work. Yeah, your books like stitch
to your arm and you're all mangled. But you just pulled bodily out of
this more of needles thread the bold soldier cras your second thank you attack.
I I think I'll use my ability on remember how to use it, so
I can take to resolve as an immediate action. You can take too,
sorry Mark mark two, so you can spend too. Yeah, and to
get rid of these two threats, and then in my guard I'll get basically
it wipes it out again. So is that the arms reached thing? Yeah?
Once prorousing immediate action. Yeah, so that's almost an extra action.
You get to do that, which is quite juicy. Cool. So you
spend the resolve. Sorry, so you spend to resolved to get rid of
the two threat, leaving us nice and clear. So that goes away.
Then I guard as my last action. Yeah, okay, which gives you
two resolved back and the priest another resolve if he's got any space space,
But I appreciate the gesture. The soldier is back. Are you god guarding?
Why do I give them priests? One of your abilities? Was it
not your ability? Given? May have made up? If he's got if
Brian guards, he gets he guards. Sorry, yeah, ignor of rules.
But I I am still ready, which means I can do more ship
if you're ready at the end in turn shift one threat in your area or
adjacent there's nothing in you Okay, there is some adjacent. I don't think
it matters, right, I think that's threats in an all right place to
be fair. Yeah at the moment, yeah all right, And I could
you could expend my ready if I wanted to and I've already used the immediate
I can't do that now. It is Trevor. You're planning on running in
and stabbing the thing. Nah, so you're gonna say tuck it in the
rear, won't you? Yeah? Yeah, you tuck that one in the
rear. Remove free, freed the priest, and remove the threat. Nice.
I'll take a step forward into range right and fire. Because I started
support it should be reloaded believe range defensive target number. Yeah, so you
did you get your two resolved back? If you lost any result damage to
no terrible terrible rolling again, I literally could have killed it, but no
straight fail. Okay, and I will hang about on right experiment, very
experimenting, very good at FA. Okay, we are back to Brian the
Priest and Ryan the Noble. Finish it off. It's very unwell. It's
like bleed is very something. Some kind of red dye is coming out,
tastes weird as you it's your tongue. Some of the ceiling is leaking bits
of oil as well. It's like the whole room is coming apart a little
bit. Yeah. I don't feel like it's in my nature to hide,
but I'm going to let the noble go first and finish. I don't think
he's ever missed a shot. Yeah, I'm happy to he'iculous that focus mate
advantage and stuff. Yeah, that's insane. After this, I'm going to
step into support like I was never there. All right, advantage shots geting
on my focus. I forgot of a huge thing. Well, when the
hunter makes some attacktive stuff with one resolved damage for each curse on them,
that's resolve if you remember anything, that's fine. But have you both been
cast? Yeah? I think three of you got curses. I've got two
resolves off then already my target. Then your target number is ranged nine.
I'm going to spend because you keep hitting me. I'm going to spend both
of those to make it a target number eleven. Okay, I've for health
bonus stats because you haven't even touched. I need to hurt you, to
hurt you so bad. One the critical No, it's not, is it.
It's just a success, Yeah, just a success. What's the resolved
damage? Sold damage? How much it's too resolved damage? I can take
resolve damage. Any one of you could finish it almost with another single run.
Six resolve and two wounds one lucky strike from pretty much any of us.
How does it look at you again? Do you shoot some strings off?
Like, what's the resolved damage here? Is there some broken machinery?
Maybe? Yeah? Yeah, yeah, I'll shoot the machinery that's trying to
entangle the priest a little bit. She kind of screeches and keynes as if
it hit her a little bit. Yeah, and then I'm gonna strategically either
way and support. I'm sad. Yeah, it's like you guys to learn
how to play the game, and here I am still figuring out because I
gained ready as well because I moved as part of No, that's not okay.
You did do resolve damage to two fregos there before. I forget as
well. Not as much right now, coward, I go, yes,
forgot something. I'm going to reload my shotgun. Okay, it's fine,
but I don't think i've done this at close range. You roll with advantage
with yes, you didn't do that last time. No, I can be
wrecked on the last fifteen minutes of gameplay this No, okay, only when
I miss resolved damaged. Yeah, I have got no threat in your area,
and I'm so mad about it. That's so crippling. Soldier, that's
so well, you're about to have two because I'm about to attack it.
Ten Yeah, so drop down the soldier. The soldier pulling me out of
the Massie Jean collapse down. I'll look up at him and say thank you,
brother. Chamber another round while the book is still attacking over the cover.
I'm going to pop my head up and I'm going to fire my shotgun.
Come on, Bessie. Oh sixteen, So they missed, both of
them were over target. Oh my god, my heart is in my I'm
so dead. I'm so dead. How does this look? You're just like
so mad. Maybe the strings pulled just as you load and just like you're
you're almost puppeted by this thing. Is it just fucks your shot at the
last second? Yeah, yeah, just that there's all these whirling everything and
it's spinning around. Yeah, a good shot at all. Okay, however,
I have caused a small amount of damage to some lace curtains at the
back. So yeah, there's a thrall in the corner, like stitching themselves
slowly into the thing, and he just blew their face clean off straight up
the wall. The bishop it's a it's a mercy cool. I have no
threat anywhere interesting, and I'm really mad about it. But she keenes back
with screech and you see kind of from behind her almost all these mechanical arms
start going out and suddenly in the air in front of her, she just
starts bolting through, like hundreds of needles just start shooting through like like yeah,
like raisor quick all the way around you. It's a target number six
hard roll. I need you both to fail badly, if you'd be so
kind thousand needles. She reaps what she sews to think. It's a jake
Brian made earlier. That's both of us, Yeah, both of you.
It's written on there and so that's where you read it, Brian talking number
six hard hard hard. I have rolled exactly my heart, You've you're so
you're gonna take nothing, Brian, that would have killed you if you'd failed.
Oh lucky boy, so mad and the and you take the soldier takes
to resolve damage and you take two curse as well. Curse. Jeez,
what does the curse do when it goes up more in number? Just like
stack? So you can get rid of it all if you succeed you get
rid of all of it. If you don't, you get rid of one
when you use actually get rid of it. It makes you lose resolve when
you attack. So if I've got a two on my curse and results,
yeah, thanks teaching me the game. Yeah, one resolve game for each
curse on them. Okay, so when you attack me, it's one of
it. Does stack definitely remembered that and haven't just taken off. I appreciate
everyone keeping up with them. Well, let me keep up retrospect me just
start falling on the floor. Yeah, okay, this play after misplay,
I'm so mad at myself. Yeah, I'm gonna my maneuver now the thing
I did last time and did it badly? Do you want to both?
I know you're in I'm arranged. I can't get the guy. I need
to defend myself. You could kill me as well, though, you're also
scary, so mean mate, I can't mean girls. Mean mean girls?
Oh yeah, so vicious web, fabric, walls, twitch and a constrict
driving you deeper. I get any air of less than three threat shift up
the three threat to the area from adjacent area, but it's powered up because
of doom. So four threat. Soldier will immediately remove it, but you
know it's there. You pop four threats into front as a maneuver. Yeah,
that's a special maneuver, and then at the end of the turn you
get to add more threat. Right, Yes, this is also true,
So I get to nine four. My cap for this place is eleven.
By the way, very nice. Is there a maximum you can put in
a square? I think so, but popped three on the on wise,
I'd say, how much can the soldier get rid of in a turn.
That's a mystery. It's rumored that the soldier can clear infinite threat. It
feels like it put it all on there. I don't. Okay, that's
my threat, that's my go It's now James and Trevor. So do you
want to remove the threat for first? You go first if you want,
because my play is basically going to try and shoot his face off again.
It feels very blast all I have left in me. I feel like you
should attack and let me do resolve. If I could get to the rear,
I would for some flair. But you can. You just couldn't do
anything else. Okay, So yeah, true, I'm gonna squat five.
So in theory, I could as an immediate action, I can heal take
removed threat with the resolve right, and each guard I can basically heal too
with it. Yeah. Yeah, So in theory, I could take four
damage and with two guards it's once per round. You could do that,
so once per round he can mark, resolve and remove threat. Yeah you're
saying you remove four and then your guard twice. Is that you're thinking of
doing what I can also do, James, is every each time you guard,
you can shift one out one the area as well as well. You
can clear it all. Yeah, but I won't, so I will only
take two damage to resolve damage as my immediate action. Who removed two?
Okay, two goes away, and then I'll then take two guards, which
will then heal me as well because I'm already on already down to resolve and
each guard moves one threat, right, yeah, so I can then move
another two threat away. I still got one on there, and then at
the end of my turn, I am still ready, so I can move
another threat. So that's all. Oh, I hate it so much.
So what's happened there is that the soldier has like defended parry dodge, dipped
duck dived and dodged, and all of the threat has either disappeared or moved
over to flank left where it doesn't matter. Yeah, okay, however,
I should rename my character to the character of the film. How if you're
listening fixed the soldier, mate, it's a mess, the mess, my
poor, my, poor little man. I don't think you've like I think
you've already ever attacked twice. I haven't attacked this fight patches, Han,
Now, don't dodge dive. I did that wrong. Okay, I'm going
to interrupt. I realized out to take some resolved damage from Bookie mc books
and yes, I'm going to bound for death, tugged like puppets stumbling towards
their doom. Cost one threat target one with at least one curse shift the
target towards the entity. Uh, I'm on't even uneven ground? Yeah?
Yeah, this about uneven Yeah it might. That may not help me.
What does you use it? It's near a DM ruling here while you're in
close. When the entity repositions an ally or uses an interruptibility, they lose
a resolve. I'm not playing to four. That makes that what four resolve
and two wounds? Yeah, yeah, yeah, and we're all fair.
I'm hurt. I'm really badly hurt. If I get hit again, yeah
and take wound damage, I'm screwed. But everyone else is. Everyone's fairly
okay. I haven't attacked that many people. The experiment's not great. He's
taking some damage the experiments. So the experiments started to turn in support though,
where you've got resolved back. Okay, how do I get rid of
curses? You do a action, you do a role under strength. On
any success, they revival curse from one hunt in their area. And anything
I just did, was I affected by those curses? No, it's when
you attack, you take resolve damage and it allows me to do some other
stuff. When you've got curs, you've pulled me in closer. Yeah.
That changed up what I was going to do a little bit, I suppose.
So now I've not got to use my knife very much. So I'm
going to use that and hopefully if it hits, we should have some fun.
When you make an attack, you're going to make is houch curse if
you got one. I have a one curse, so take one resolved damage
for attacking me. These threads pull at you and target you plunk and see
what happens close in ten? Do I spend another result? Threat? My
knife's just a flimsy, little butter knife, mate, don't want sure what
you're rolling under? Quick? What's the stat fourteen? Yeah, I'm going
to spend it target number ten, A number eleven, sorry, number eleven.
Okay, here we go a little bit. Oh same, These dice
are rigged, mate, bad dice, guaranteed. I want a different color.
Eighteen completely failed. Knife slipped up, my hand fell on the floor.
I'm stumbling on the I've got webs in my eyes. Yeah, it's
all going down, Mate's going down. However, I do still have another
go because I have maneuver. Have a maneuver, yes, which I am
going to Oh very okay, cool. Finally got the go and we swing
at the end of the round. Back to Brian and Ryan, the noble
and the priest to take this story crack at the end of the Do I
want to interrupt anything? I can't because there's no threat on the board.
There's lots of threat on the board. And and what you think I don't
want it? You got flank left, ranged, left, ranged, right,
full full of threat, positively brimming with threat, Keith, I think
if I turn it brings you back into the threat, because weirdly the threat
stays. I think, yeah, yeah, yeah you can. You can
turn them on the side of you. Yeah yeah, of course that will
mean I do believe that means that you reposition us and therefore you'll take resolved
damage. Yes, okay, uh yeah, I've reloaded my shotgun. Okay,
that wasn't my role. Reload my shotgun, real load my shotgun,
and then I'll take a shot. Okay, that's close, right, so
close and ten lasting. I have rolled a nine nineteen, so I've run
a nine just to resolve damage. Then yeah, so two points of resolved
mg okay, and you take one because you're cursed. Yeah, just one
curse, right, curse? Yeah, hanging on. Heren't you have got
this two wounds gone yet? Brian too? Okay, Brian would I would
out? The best I can do is nine resolving around that nine nine threatning
around that, and that hits your resolve as well, right, that takes
You'll get some of it back. I get some of it absolute madness.
Cool. Yeah, So just again reloading. I feel like the soldier is
just keeping this thing away. It's just like spacking it with the butt of
the rifle and holding it back, maybe slicing away at the threads of the
these strings as they're coming in and they're flying in to try and pierce as
he's just nick like sturgically snipping off threads. I'm not attacking it. I'm
purely defensive strike. It's like poking out of a spear something big. You
know, you're keep it at bay it's not able to attack. And then
my my, it's kind of like these counter chains are just trying to grab
this thing and hold it still long enough for me to shoot. So I'll
graze it with that shot. And then I'm sure that the noble sense an
opportunity that, you know, rejoin us and stop hanging around the building.
What's doing right? So I can endure anything. It's so far I've endured
nothing. So I store a Resolve. Yeah, where is that? Yeah?
That for starting in support, isn't it? That's because I'm ready.
You get some if you already restore one resolve and ready, you also get
two the starting and support if you aren't on max Yeah, oh cool,
and you reload your gun well, oh, pace to be you weren't under
any threat. You've lost. Actually, know how you're like going to go
to support and just when you start, when you start your TOD and support,
restore capacity to max and restore to resolve, and just think about how
much better you are than poor people there getting sewed up. What an idiot.
You guys look ridiculous. All right, so I'll step in into range.
Left. You can step into range if you want. Oh, that
makes way more support. So support rings the battlefield. So if you step
back into support, you can then nip up on the other side next turn
if you so desire. It's glorious. Yeah, it's so good when your
brain needs to be able to do that, guys, do it hopefully.
I'll take later on, which is when you shoot through my square, you
get more damage. What a decoy sacrifice worth making? When an makes a
range attacked through the area, they gain plus one slash plus one. I
haven't got it yet, right, that's a soldier's tooth to the blow,
ha ha ha. I'm going to use my other focus then as well.
So of course, all right, don't dumb ah. What was the target
number nine? Ranged? Okay, so I got a well, but if
I get my exact if you exact your crep? What's just what's your skill?
My skill is fourteen. It's I've got fourteen, so you got under
what did you roll? I got fourteen and a twelve fourteen and your status
fourteen? Yeah she did crep? Oh my god. Okay, so you're
going to do isn't your statu it's fourteen because I'm on four health because I've
got get all yeahs. So his course that goes up by one. And
when he's when he's fully mm hmm, it's that crept which is double wood.
It's head looks really sad, real wound damage plus two you actually do?
Do you do way more than the thing has? How does it look
as you can't really step back out of the shadows having had your covered old
gray? M hmm, yeah, the old gray was perfect as always.
Your butler ferries it away quietly. Yep. Rifles fully reloaded. So I'll
step forwards putting into this and I'm just gonna bank bank bank bank. It
was just kind of about to feast on the front and two of us,
and as you kind of just the first shot and wings it and then the
second shot punches it in the chest multiple times and then the last shot boom
straight in the straight in them more straight in the mouth and the Yeah,
the tailor is dead, guys. I've abolutely hammered that that was brutal unike
this time, guys, This time you're gonna have something to worry about.
It didn't help that I didn't play it very well, but that that was
done. You played really well. You played off your abilities very very nicely,
and those additional abilities that you had. So now, yeah, I
was going to say that that was that felt very different. M Yeah.
I felt having that book and the chip damage constantly. I just felt and
taking shelter as well, I just felt. I felt, I felt almost
like James must Phil felt semi indestructible. The shelter saved you because you took
at least two hits, and that would have been two extra wounds. You
think, yeah, and pool you out of the machine when you got buy
after every round, A threat is getting me a free attack on you,
guys, and I couldn't make any just the soldiers have had it, had
it lockdown with the with the soldiers. Goad is it golden bullwalk that take
all the threat and give you stuff back. So is it that. Yeah,
when I take a guard action, it allows me to move one threat,
and if I take two guards, that's two threats shifted, two shifted
their k But each time I add but then the core arms for each ability
as immediate action through it. It's ridiculous. I could take in theory six
resolved damage and remove six threats off the table. Yeah, and then the
two guard acts give me four back, and then I've also got the Yeah,
the bullwark bullwark, that's just healing. The way I've been reading the
abilities of my sheet anyway, that you've got the left and the right hand
side to it. Basically, so if you're doing stuff on the left,
the stuff on the right would be irrelevant, and the stuff on the right,
this stuff on the right, the stuff on the left. It's not
like that. It depends. If it says it says literally your gun does
extra damage because of this ability, then then find if it says when you
move into close you do extra one damage because you happen to have a sword,
you do that with any other weapon as well. Like it is.
This is how you build the character and try and make it so. I
saw those Yeah, I saw those as like an option, though obviously like
buffs, then essentially some Yeah, I think it might be how my character
works. My character I have to explicitly pick a thing each time for it
to actually do anything. I was going to say, yeah, because my
like my book is a bit different. Yeah, my book attacks with wise
versus weird. But my shotgun attacked with sharp from with sharp, So I
can't use one damage, but I can't change. Yeah, the other thing.
But it seems like the soldier you can arms reach is immediate action,
goad is when you get supplied when you do the guard action, and control
is if you're still ready at the end of your turn, you can shift
an additional threat so he doesn't need to attack. He's not their abilities from
his weapons. And bullwork is just if someone else guards they get Yeah,
if I thought you're just like in a game, you'd have to take that
position essentially, so you have to have to be like I'm bullwalking or I'm
controlling or I'm goading. That would be like a maneuver, or that would
be like an action. So none of it says that it's a it's a
maneuver. That's what I was just trying to work out if it was open,
if we weren't arms. Yeah, sorry, Yeah, some of it
is based on if I'm ready or not. Yeah, if you get yourself
in that ready positional time, then yeah you can. Yeah. Remember last
time he was getting hit a lot, so he had to he was using
the ready to reduce damage and then was spending an action to become ready again.
Yeah, you take guard again. And it says when you guard,
you can also do this, So yeah, it is about stacking up the
combos absolutely destroy each time. What do you what do you think you should
have done, Keith, because you said you misplayed it, and I'd be
really interested to say what you think you should have done. This is the
tricky thing. Obviously, I'm trying to learn the game. I think this
points in terms of how I use threats. So obviously I was piling threats
of the soldier. Don't do that, because it's not really a point.
I was trying to kill the priest because you had that nasty ability of customer
results so much. I was trying to polish you off quick, but I
just didn't get lucky. And then when the soldier did move in, and
I think it was right putting you in support at the start that cost you
a turn to get in That was my plan. I just couldn't had had
his ability, and I was like, I need to get in there to
help him keep the threat often. And then it was really reducing your effectiveness
every time you could interrupt. You're like, we hissed through your resolve really
really good. Yeah, if it wasn't your crap making it cost me resolve
to do interrupts, it was it was the soldiers thing stopping from having the
threat in the first place, actually, which which cripples me. It means
I'm getting one attack in your five in four sorry, and that's it,
you know, And then it's tough and maybe I could be more moving more
dynamically, or it's trying to figure out where to focus my attentions and what
to use. There's definitely a way to play this where I probably could really
master it. I feel like there's more, But there's also certainly be said
about this. I think the PDF is slightly different. It might be they've
minorly adjusted some things. It might be picked up some stuff from test players
that we aren't I don't know. Yeah, I was just going to say
I'll think for a second and engage my brain. I felt like like,
if the players come in and don't know what they're doing, and they die,
they take some doom and then they go back and have another go.
But if there's a d M, you're you don't quite get your head round
how something's supposed to work first time. The players will absolutely batter it and
then it's kind of done. Although I should know I've got the opportunity to
read about the monster first. Yeah, yeah, I expected you. You
were saying like we were getting pierced with needles and stuff like that. I
was expecting us to get thrown all across the board. I expected like the
soldier to end up in support again. I expected the noble to be pulled
in close because he's rubbish up close, because he'd been pissed. And instead
it was like, oh, we're cursed and it's horrible and it costs us
resolve. But actually just didn't do much, did it. It's moving well
because I basically got a free shot every turn with focus. I got eight
damage out of that basically killed it. You've killed it, the two of
her. But yeah, yeah, well, I mean like I've got a
maneuver that can move throughat which is what I did. That's instead of maneuver,
I kind of needed my news to restore my resolve because of how much
you're making me pay. A thousand needles, which is like an area of
effect attack which can place curses, the main attack, which is ravenous mangle,
which doesn't really have anything to do with curses, and then it interrupts
one places curses, and there's one that uses if they're cursed, it can
pull them towards you. There is a when first broken thing which is really
nasty, but you didn't break her, so she never got to use that.
That sent out a puncture to all of you, so you'd be able
to bang. Everyone takes that and everyone gets cursed potentially as well. And
then there's the specials so place an additional threat helped, but you've just hit
so efficiently and heavily, and then that resolved damage just is what I forgot
about first. That is nice, Like every time you're hitting me, you're
taking more resolve. Maybe if I've stacked it and it just the thing is,
I can't kill you a resolve. It would have just brought you to
broken. And then i've had, i'd have had to finish you off.
But I guess with the main attack of ravenous mangle, that's a two five.
So if I break through the resolve quickly, that five hit goes through
no matter what, and that's going to flow most people. So again,
it's probably me figuring out how these pieces fit together beforehand. It's probably the
thing I'm taking away from this. I need to really study it and try
and figure out. Well, maybe there's also not trying to figure out what
the hell you can do, because you guys again, you've just got extra
ramp of power. That's yeah, shown itself as well. Yeah, I
get I get on a train if I if I just get a wound early
on, it gets really easy for me because when I get a wood,
I get a focus. And then when I've got focus, I've got more
chance to hit and get a wound. But you lose your power, you
lose your stat when you take a wound to you, I know that's different.
Well yeah, no, when he does a wound, when he wounds
the enemy, he gets a free focus. Yeah sorry, okay, Yeah,
and I said I've got more focused, I've got more chance of wounding
cycles not have to spend maneuver to do a focus. I can keep moving
out of threats so they get a first hit. I'm good. Yeah.
This from the last game is that you've just like you were acing it and
I may and maybe I was. I was too busy focusing, maybe hyper
focusing on the priest. I should have probably tried to kill the you because
you were If I got you closer as well, I could have pulls you
in a major rifle really bad. But the thing is, as well,
you kept moving out of the threat zone and the threat kept getting moving away.
So again I lost a lot of my ability. Can you get us
from support? Can you put I can do a maneuver to hunt you down
when you're in support, and then you test quick. On a success,
you're arranged. On a failure, you get moved to the front. Okay,
So it depends on what we did. If we did hang about the
support too much, you could try and put us in well. I thought
about the last game was one point you were about to get like fully re
armed, fully reloaded, and just to be like, but no, you
don't. That's quite nice. Something you're in close and you're like ship,
I'm not, but again I was just on the edge the whole time.
I was on the back foot. So now, well done, guys,
You're played very very well. I think that's the thing to be taken away
from here as well. I feel like the priests and the soldier are just
beautiful. That is awful for me. The front mate, the terrain train
is so powerful as well, Like you just want I just wanted to be
as close to you as possible, and it's protected as possible because I didn't
want to control thing. I've got quite interesting because it says h expend the
ready to grant an ally in your area and immediate reload, take cover or
move, maneuveral So if something's going to get and hit the fan, I
can sit, combos, take cover or something. I'll be studying the next
one more closely for or if we do this again, I don't know.
Well, I guess we'll see. We come to into the back of it
as well. But yeah, obviously normally we do a baptism at this point.
You pick another thing. I think if you were to do an episode,
maybe that's when we do it. But yeah, if people are comfortable
to leave it there, yeah, I really enjoyed that. Yeah, it
was fun. I enjoyed myself as well, despite getting getting up my ass
handed to me. I feel like accidentally pushed myself to the front again because
we're investigating the priory and I'm like, I'll be the priest and it's like
cool, well, I'll be the one that has to talk to the monks
and sad turnip farmers. Then plenty of people that may well not have responded
well to you. And just because you're a priest doesn't mean yeah, the
Hollow doesn't want you here, the Hollow dislikes you being here. There was
a bit of me that wanted to kick Ryan to the front and be like,
go steal the shiny thing off of the peasants, so bring yourself to
talk to blue Blood like that. So I'm just saying I also gained a
flattered turnip. We've got the sacred ashes. Yeah you didn't use it even,
did you, So you've got that ready, didn't need to like it's
fine. Yeah, no again, it was about half dead after the first
rounder thing and it hung on you. Remember the the hound. The first
thing you did was did free damage to E think and my health. So
you were like bang third health and I was like, well, this is
going to be quick, yeah, and then you just didn't get Yeah.
It is swingy, like the defense of Brian dying and living like four terms
ago. It was on a roll, like just a little higher, and
I realized it was attack in my quick I felt very sad. Seven in
quick it's literally a vulnerability and I still couldn't quite get you. So thanks
everyone for playing. Thank you Brian, Ryan, Trevor and James and Jamie
in the background. It's been an absolute pleasure, even though I didn't get
to kill any of you this time, getting worse getting stronger. Maybe next
time I will change that, but yes, it's been great. This has
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