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and welcome back to the Knicks Archive. I am your game master, C.
D. Corrigan. I am joined today by the lovely Miss Maddie Hammet.
Hello, I'm Maddie playing Farah, and Miss Marissa Mounton I'm sorry,
I Crypt and Miss Marissa Montero. I am here playing Skink, and our
first guest of the podcast, mister Scott Corrigan aka jat Support. Scott is,
of course my younger brother and co conspirator on a number of Relict projects,
so you might have heard me mention him before, usually not in a
bad way. We are going to jump the look. We are gonna jump
right back into the events as they are unfolding. Our diminutive dungeon delvers were
approaching the Long Haul tavern, everyone carrying a lovely collection of fried fish from
an angry fay. When the tavern exploded, Yeah and go. You see
the long Haul detonate, the upper windows blow out, glass flying everywhere from
all different directions. The entire wall facing your side of the street, The
direction you're approaching from. The entire wall blows out in a shower of timber,
plaster and stone. People scream. You see people scattering in all directions.
You see people inside not scattering in all directions. Oh question, how
coolse are we are? We're gonna get concussive blasts? Like do we get
tossed back? I'm gonna say you're about a hundred yards out when this happens,
so you definitely feel like it feels like a wet arm blanket just like
smacking you in the face, but not You're not close enough for it to
be like super dangerous for you. Just this wash of heat and force and
wind that kind of like staggers you for a moment. You see shapes running
and moving inside the opening that has been blasted into the side of the long
hall. What do you do? Pears like instantly opens your coat, rummages
through the bag, opens it, shovels fish into our face. I was
just about to be the same. I was like, I'm not missing out
on this. Well, there's no think I can do immediately. Yeah that's
farah yeah, also doing the same, just like absolutely not and just absolutely
not. She's just like she wanted to taste it before she has to deal
with this. She's skink. I'll give you a moment to react before I
narrate anything. No Skink is just stock still and watching and wondering was that
elf lady in there? Because I really did want to talk to her today,
and like also like wondering was that elk lady there? And is this
her fault? Yeah, it's fair, And just standing still watching because at
this point, I think everybody knows that Skink and Farah kind of like to
go where death is happening, and so I'm just I'm just like standing there
watching Sha like I'm in like pure pure observation mode. I'm not I'm like,
I know that they're eating, but I'm just like I'm not even hungry
yet. I'm just like taking it in. Jan go ahead, and Jan
roll a precision for me. That is going to be a let's say six.
You feel as you kind of look up to watch this explosion unfolding and
you're like shoving fish in your mouth. You feel something tugging at your bag
and you look down to see Pip gulloping down a piece of your fish,
and then he flies back over to skink nice, just want to be your
friend. I would have well, I wouldn't have showed. I think skink
skink sort of like absolutely, wait do I have my own bag? Was
far carrying all? Yeah? No, I think all three of you have
a bag? Skink like sort of absolutely is like still watching the explosion.
Uh, reaches into the bag and just like hands up another piece to pip.
He only takes a little nibble. He's full, all right, and
then like sort and then absolutely notices there's still fish in my hand and then
just like eats it is fucking phenomenal, Like this is just savory and and
just the right amount of moist and there's just this blend of spices in there
that like just sits on your palette and stimulates all of your senses just so
nice. The aroma kind of gets into your sinuses, warms you like,
oh my god, that I did at least get my bite in right,
Yeah. And then she's gonna quickly assess does it look like they're what like
it was an accident or is there a bad guy that she can spot because
she needs that's gonna determine what she does next. Do you want me to
what do you want me to roll. Uh? Are you guys getting closer?
Let me ask you that first. Yeah, she's gonna like put another
piece of fisher mouth. I'm not gonna lie and then understand. Walk closer,
carefully and slowly, trying to assess this feels so cape cod Right now,
everybody, can I do a quick precision check to see if I see
mysterious dude? Right? Okay, so jet precision check for that specifically,
farah, as you are walking closer, no check necessary for this information.
You see what looks to be spell fire going back and forth within the whole.
I'm going to use my blooded ability or thing that I do as a
burserer. So I think it cost me three since it's my third class.
Right, Yes, I can pull it up and check if we need to,
but it'll be four x the base cost. Oh four times okay,
so but I should be I am fine, I can do that. That
just puts me down to one stamina for now. We're not an initiative yet,
right, not yet. No, we'll say anything you're doing to like
set up going into it. When we get into initiative, we'll just start
you at that deficit. Sure, but we'll say you trigger it going into
going okay, all right, and for blooded, I inflict one D.
For common, I'm gonna do piercing. Actually, I'm gonna do slashing damage
where it is on myself. My next weapon or spell attack role gains a
bonus equal to twice the damage taken this way. So since we're not in
initiative yet, we'll say that triggers just as a free action at the start
of combat. If you guys get into a fight, do you want me
to roll the D four? Now, go ahead and roll it and just
have it recorded. Just in terms of like action economy. It's I'm not
going to take away from your first I'm sure we're not going into a fight.
It could just be an arguments, turn around and run away. I
don't know, it's crazy. She's like so fair at this point. Is
also like, wonder if the elf lady was harmed because we did want to
talk to her. Also, they're I would I don't think I'm wrong in
saying that Far and Skink are drawn to chaos to some extent extinct. So
I rolled a flour So I my next weaponr' spell attack gains a bonus equal
to twice mine to eight. Does a four get you to a bleeding round?
A great question. I did it? You did slashing. I did
do slashing, not white, okay, just something to note for other reasons.
Yes, so I'm not I have an open wound, but I'm not
quite leading yet, right, not quite yet. So good to know.
Okay, Farah is moving forward and activating that ability that's going to be you
kind of leading into this. I'll give everyone like kind of a beat before
things kick off here. Jet he rolled a precision check, would you get
I did not roll it because I I but I will do so now that
is going to be a nine. Nine. You do not spot him,
but you think you've made a pretty good sweep, all right, I'll point
out just above the board, it's possible to make a good detection check.
No, you've done a good detection check, and there's just nothing to find.
There's just nothing there. Yeah, no, for sure. He scrunches
his face a little bit after he does his sweep and then just pulls out
his hammers and just kind of gets ready. Lovely skink anything going into or
out of this scenario. Uh, I think Skink is gonna sidle like alongside,
like if there was a big haul and it's like next to another building
or something. Skink is gonna move off to the side and cast dark light
on herself so that she's just a shadow watching things. I don't think that's
dark light. I think that's your aura of shadow ability. Oh is that
that is? Okay? Because dark light is a light that you can see
with dark vision. Okay, great, I just want to like be yeah,
you're gonna pop up this aura of shadow. So Skink kind of sneaks
off into like a sideway for a moment. This is like a reminder twilight
setting over usk right now, the polar night is imminent, although not quite
fully into that time of year yet. Snow blustering around, mixing with the
smoke and cinders and debris, and this little patch of shadow kind of sticks
to one wall on the street. You guys are all moving closer, heading
in. Skink SLINKs off to the side, activates shadow magic disappears into this
like hazy fog of darkness. Farah moving forward, starting to activate her different
abilities. Jack or Jack takes a look around. Oh never let you go,
Jack, No, he's fucking dead. But Jack takes a look around,
doesn't see anything doesn't feel like he needs to watch his back. Flashes
of spellfire and mage light zipping back and forth, screams coming out from inside
the Long Haul. As we get closer, everyone roll initiative lovely one twelve.
Please let me know what you guys. Wow, no modifiers. We
do have tigh breakers in the event we need them. I got it two
for fair, I have an eleven. I got a six. And then
on top of that, can you all go ahead and tell me your armor
for me, just for the sake of being able to keep tracking things easier.
Sure, I have six, I have five, I have four nothing.
Okay. I don't know if I should be the tank, but here
I am. You guys approach the gaping hole in the side of the Long
Haul. The hole is like midway through the common room, so just bisecting
the building right there's rubble on the ground. It does look like you would
be able to cross into just walks right into the common room. The door
to the long hole that you would normally enter through is about thirty feet off
to the right of the hole, so that is also an option. Through
the hole. You see the bar blasted to splinters and kind of crawling away
from this blast site. You see several figures you do not recognize, wearing
robes that jet you recognize as similar to the man who's been following you,
slinging spells and attacking different individuals within the building, most of whom have gone
down. You see that the stairway up to the second level has been completely
demolished, but someone is standing at the top of the spear. One of
them is standing at the top of the stairs, slinging spells down at somebody.
Uh farah, We're gonna say you were closest because you were kind of
leading the charge on this. You see, Lady Sive. Somebody slings one
of these robed figures, slings just this bolt of fire straight at her.
She contemptuously just snatches it out of the air and spells the magic instantaneously raises
up her other hand throws a stream of light at him. He deflects it,
but staggers back. She runs over, grabs him by the face,
and pile drives his face straight through the floorboards. You see them splinter.
He hits the ground, but you see this flicker of ember light in his
hand, and you see in this moment time seems to slow as the adrenaline
kicks in. You feel her heartbeat, You see her, see this flicker
of light blast past her up into the exposed second story of the long Haul.
She snatches at it with this like dispelling miasma of etheric energy. It
misses, and you see she watches it go up and it hits the roof.
You realize above the room that has been blocked off for the investi gation
where Chester died, and the sacks of flakes have been stored, presumably,
and you see Lady Sib just go fuck. As this enormous blue explosion rips
the roof off of the long Haul. The two figures who are in that
fight are buried under a mountain of rubble. Part of the building collapses.
You see the other part of the building towards the main common room and the
entrance is still free standing compromised, and everybody kind of staggers back and is
standing back up. Several more of these robed figures are in there. Several
of them are wielding knives and daggers, and they are trying to detain,
kill, capture Roland and a few of the other people within. You recognize
a few of the guys who were with Lady Estelle before. Jat you're up.
Jet is going to go ahead because he knows who these people are.
He's just gonna go ahead and initiates from the get go Dance of Ravens,
which is now correct me if I'm wrong. It costs five to cast,
but to sustain it each round, I have to use two manna. I
believe that is I'm sorry, stamina sorry, stamina yellow blue? His mana
right? Does that stamina drop now or the next rap? No, So
that's a sustaining cost. So that goes out during your recovery phase. Cool.
Cool, So I'm just gonna go ahead and just pass that right now
the way that he has go ahead. Sorry, I was gonna say,
So, that's just we're gonna walk through a piece by piece because it's our
first kind of bat in the show. Does that cost an action to activate
that ability? Yes? It is one? Maybe is one action? One
action? Great, you've activated Dance of Ravens. Describe how that looks.
Yeah, So basically I start performing a dance, which the way that I
describe that all his dances are going to be and the way that he initiates
it is he clangs his hammers together. That's how he initiates all of the
spells, and then he just starts going to the motions. What happens is
that my allies within a thirty foot radius, as long as I'm sustaining this
ability creatures I designate get a plus two to spell attack roles and plus one
to spell check target for each dance counter that I have, which I gain
one for sustaining the dance. Yeah, you get one immediately for activating it.
I believe it's right exactly. So you are just keep track. You've
got one dance counter right now. Now you have one action remaining on your
turn. You guys, see Jet clacks his hammers together and this like tuning
fork tone begins to sound and has this like etheric vibration of magic through the
air around and then for another action, I am going to go ahead and
just movement is also an action FLA, right, I am going to go
ahead and just search the room to see any potential hazards, other targets,
that sort of thing besides the two that we just witness. Okay, go
ahead and pop off a precision for me that is going to be a dirty
twelve, Dirty twelve, I'm sorry, Dirty thirteen. Sorry. Okay,
you clock something that I think is particular to you, as in this would
have been harder for someone else to see, but for you. You're going
to clear the target. You see a shimmer in the back corner of the
freestanding part of the common room that you recognize as a kind of veil that
Brunskull creates to hide. Okay, got it, I am that's information for
me and no one else. Yeah, yes, well that's going to be
Jat's turn. We are going to move next to you. Guys haven't actually
engaged with anybody yet. So the next two of the robed figures. You
see, one is like pushing his way past the rubble and is like trying
to dig and see and just immediately gives up on like recovering their companion from
under there, turns he goes fine damn, and then fires off another spell
kind of into the room. One of the tavern keepers I'm not sorry,
tavern patrons gets just clipped by this energy and goes down. There's like a
spray of like blood that immediately flash freezes against the wall. Another one kind
of runs off out of sight you want to be able to see him from
there. We're gonna go to Skinks Turn next. So are there any dead
bodies that I can see that have that have like come out of the hall
from the blast. Uh, I'm gonna say right now, you're you're like
across the street, so you're about just establishing here about thirty feet from the
hole. Okay, go ahead, last came out word roll one four for
me? In came out three. There are three humanoid dead bodies. Uh,
there's plenty of injured people, but it looks like there was someone sitting
by the part of the room that was annihilated and there are just these burnt
bodies lying on the on the street. Cool. Well, I'm gonna raise
one undead just in case I need, uh, a little zombie corpse to
do any battle for me. Yeah, just a little zombie, Just a
little zombie. So like yeah, so, like I'm under my shadow of
darkness that no one can see, and I'm just like whispering and uh whispering
my enchantments and like making my runic figures directed at the nearest dead person that
I could see, this poor matron, And I'm just going to like prepare
prepare my own personal soldier, my own little my own little zombie. So
you are using rays undead, it's gonna take one enthrallment slot, cost your
mana, all that good stuff your So we're gonna say you move up to
within just I'm gonna kind of fudget a little bit. We'll say this body
is within your control radius immediately. Uh so I know that you have a
radius where if your zombies go outside of it, they might go feral and
just start attagging anybody and not listening to you ever again. Right, but
I'm gonna say this one is within your bubble. Okay, I was going
to say I could cross the street just to get closer. Yeah, I'm
gonna say so, no additional movement required. This one was close enough.
It was close. But it'll be on you to kind of move within range
to keep him with exactly exactly like a pocket with my strings. And then
I believe you have one more action, and your zombie takes his turn alongside
you, so he's got two actions. So just burned and mangled, like
all the bones are broken on one side. Corpse just sort of like stands
up and just starts staggering and just turns to face you, A lady orders.
Yeah, I don't know. I can't like see who is the aggressor
in this situation, so I don't know if it's a good idea to send
it in there blindly attacking. I will say, if you're across the streets,
you could. I will say, you can clearly see that there are
a number of robed figures throwing spells around side. Yeah, what to do
with that information? Okay, then I'm going to send my Uh, I'm
going to send my new friend to bite the closest berth, the closest robed
figure that I can. Okay, I'm it says I have to roll Wendy
twelve plus two. Is it a spell? No, this is a that's
sorry, that's to hit it, all right, So it's an attack roll.
It's a nine. A nine will hit this guy's armor. Go ahead
and take a roll damage roll, sorry damage roll and wait? Wait wait
do I roll for that again? Let me see yours zombie stands. Wait
a minute, bite piercing damage. Jesus, that's a four four piercing damage
and you've hit him. So the zombie is welcome to attempt to grapple him.
As a free action. All right, Yeah, it's just gonna like
just go go for like a hug, just go for like a full like
arms around the whatever, like like over his back, you know, like
I think I think the zombie like came behind him. They're like bit the
neck and is just like hugging around around the robed guy. Okay, so
you can roll a mite check so well for the zombie. So it's gonna
be one D twelve plus two. One D twelve plus two is what the
zombie currently has. It goes up as you level up. Okay, rolling
on twelve plus two, that's a nine. Okay, so my guy rolled
a four. So the zombie is currently grappling him, h huh and dragging
this guy around. I think that's a free action. The zombie has one
more attack it can make. No, it moved. I'm sorry, I
apologize. That was two actions. It moved it bit moved bit, and
it is grappling one of these robed mages. And this guy's just clearly was
not expecting one of the burn victims to rise. Just wrap him in a
bear hug and start chewing on him, right, Okay, that is Skink's
turn. That is skinks, zombies turn I'm gonna put skink plus zomb on
machine. Uh last mage yet, who is closest right now? I think
that would be skink. You're all kind of roughly at the same threshold,
but no one's gone in. Yeah, you were like there, and no
one's gone into the building yet, right. I think the screams of his
ally have alerted him. I'm going to take a moment to remind you guys,
you don't have to. This is not the DM being like this was
the right move to do, but in relict for our listeners at home.
Anyone with mana can counter spell. It is. Yes, it is a
way to challenge other spells. When monsters cast spells and whatever, when major's
cast spells and all that kind of stuff, all of their abilities have different
ranges of what it takes to counter them. You can use your reaction to
bid to attempt to spend your mana to beat it. If you don't beat
it, you still spend the mana. Quick clarification, Okay, so it
is spending the mana, not if you have. You are bidding mana to
try and stop it and using your reaction. If you underbid, you spent
it and that's going into your next turn. You have less mana oh,
high risk ky reward. I get it, high risk y reward. That's
the system. They can also counter you, FYI. Okay, yeah,
uh so blast mage number two. Here's the screams of his ally. He
is going to fire off a mage bolt at Marissa's zombie. Marissa, what
is your zombie's armor? Oh? Oh? What is five? Sorry?
I looked it up. I had Yeah. I was like, let me
pull up that page. It is five armor and seven health at your current
level, So just keep that in mind. Sorry. Quick qualification question.
I am doing the Dance of Ravens, which I did cast with the initial
targets of those two. Does that apply to her zombie as well? What
did it affect the zombie? It's in a it's a thirty foot radius.
That's the only thing. What is the actual effect? The actual effect is
plus one two. Well, plus two there's spell attack roles, but plus
one to spell check targets. That's if he's casting us. Yeah, I'm
no, good check, good check, but for a zombie doesn't do anything.
Okay, firing off a mage bolt at the zombie that is a plus
three to hit seven will hit that armor. So he's gonna go ahead and
roll damage and I need mine. See what is that I need high contrast?
That is four ether damage to the zombie. So that knocks off the
health or the armor. That'll take his health down. Okay, so knocked
from seven to three right? Correct? Yes, So he's gonna fire that
one off zombie still holding his friend, and I think, in lieu of
a lack of other major targets right now, he's just gonna do the same
thing again as a natural twelve fires off a natural twelve. He is gonna
roll twice. It's one, it's five more ether da image to the zombie.
I feel like that's gonna wipe it out. It only has three health
left. Yeah, that'll kill it. So zombie down, zombie down.
Yeah, this burning zombie and wraps this guy gnaws on him and then it
gets taken out by his ally. That is that guy's turn, however,
and then does Farah up next? I need to ask you how many tokens
do I have? What is the text on getting a blood token for me?
Whenever you are a creature within ten feet of you gains a round of
bleeding you gain plus one blood token. They can be used to up my
blood mage spells. Blood tokens expire after one minute, so and then I
have as many yeah yeah, plus two plus two to my character or level.
Yeah, so you can have up to a certain number. Okay,
I'm gonna say this. No one actively involved in the combat right now has
gained a round of bleeding that is a result of slashing damage. However,
you are in a scene that has just been a giant explosion. So we're
gonna leave it up to a roll and see if anyone is bleeding. Go
ahead, we'll do I'll let you roll for it. Roll A D twelve
five and under no tokens six to ten one token, eleven and twelve two
tokens old A two no tokens at the start of combat. Okay, but
you can certainly gain some shut in that case. I am. My immediate
concern is Roland and anybody I see who is like in like civilians in harms
way, So can I like with that next collapse, is Roland just done
for? Or should I try to go to him? Roland is crawling away.
He was kind of like protected by the bar and I think you can
see him behind the bar, crawling away, trying to just get out of
this room. Okay. And the door is like to the side. Yeah,
so you're looking in the hole, okay, kind of at the threshold
of where the door. The wall has been blown open. The bar is
like front and left of you, big pile of rubble right there. Bar
heading towards the back looks a bit a little bit more stable. The exit
door is to your right as you walk through the hole. Okay, So
but if I walk through the hole, am I going to walk in between
people? Yeah? There's like a whole fight happening there. A guy just
blew up a zombie right right right, the guy who blew up the zombie.
I'm gonna go ahead and cast a laser rate. Remind me, actually,
for second class, is it twice the amount? It's double? Yeah,
okay, So I'm gonna use lass rate. I'm gonna make a spell
attack and on a hit and inflicts one D six slashing damage. So lovely
roll to attack plus my weight. Whoa, that was only a five plus
two from jat as well, so that'll actually be a seven okay because dance
of ravens uh so, thank you? Oh wait, oh wait, I
also had my blooded, which is a plus eight to attack no to a
damage wait, hold on, let me look up blooded. I'm just gonna
look it up. Yeah, hold on, Because you did have that,
your next weapon or spell attack role gains a bonus equal to twice the damage
taken this way. Yes, plus eight slash damage on top of bleeding,
on top of lacerate. Okay, yes, so you snit. Yeah,
with a seven, you hit the mage who does not have an enormous amount
of armor. How much mana did you spend on that six? Six mana
total? He is going to your I want to be clear you're targeting and
not the guy who got bit by the zombie, but the guy who killed
the zombie. Yeah, okay, he's going to attempt to counterspell you.
Okay. He gets one D four plus two on his counters He has to
roll a foard to counter with the spell. Okay, she also gets a
plus one for me. He is, no, that's not that's a that's
a different mechanic. He rolled a three, doesn't matter. Wow. So
he sees this bundle of just dark energy ripping through the ether at him and
just goes ah. He tries to like dismiss it blasts straight through his fence's
blood bursts off of this guy. How much damage did that do? That
is going to do? Hold on just one second lashing plus eight bruh five
plus eight. Yeah, so let me look at Lasser w bruh. Jad's
just doing like what he's supposed to do, and he just looks over his
oh my god, trying not to regurgitate the one bite of fish that he
had. This guy goes from looking pretty much like the second in command,
like our leader went down under the pilo. I'm going to take charge.
I'm experienced, I know what I'm doing here to immediately just dripping like doom
guy in the in the bottom corner when you've got free health left and just
blood coming out of everywhere. Just ah. Yeah. There's a moment of
this guy just being like, what was that the nosebleeded? Okay, So
Sarah looks I just need you to know manic smile. At this point,
I think Sarah is definitely on the bad guy's radar in this room now for
sure. But that was one action, yeah, another one knowing that this
caused enough damage to give her a blood token Sarah has a manic smile on
her face, just gleeful, a little alarming, one might say. And
she has another action now, so she's going to her objective. Though she
might use terrifying magic, her objective is actually to help a civilian in this
case. So she's going to move towards Roland. Okay, so you're going
to move towards Roland. You gain a blood token, you hit this guy
with this vicious spell, move past him towards Roland. You're going to run
past him. He's already used his reaction to attempt to counter that. He
does not get an attack of opportunity, So you pass him and you're out
of melee range. Right after that heading, you're not quite gonna get to
Roland, but you're within about ten feet of them at this point. What
does it look like when Parah gains a blood token. I'm going to read
the quote to you from the blood Mage page. It says she was a
terror wading through the battlefield with a cloud of crimson hanging around her. It
grew with every man cut down, and from it she wove horrors. I
think such death could be born from the stuff of life. Jes Sarah anytime
she gains a blood token, there's this like blood haze that gathers to her,
like the blood gets like aerosolized and it's like attracted, which you know
what she's she's an iron gnome. It's almost like you would imagine how it's
she's magnetic almost to the blood. So it just clings to her. And
right now she only has one and it's it's not a lot, so there's
it's not a huge haze or anything. She doesn't actually have. There's a
haze effect that can occur where it actually obscures her, but it, yeah,
it clings to her like a you know they call it the red mist.
Well, is it kind of like that metallic liquid thing that's like really
like it's like that black op city and like liquid that when it's white with
flood. Yeah, yeah, it's a little thinner right now, it's more
aerosol than solid. But eventually, you know, if she gets if she
gets enough of momentum. Okay, that is fairest Turn two of the robed
figures. In less elaborate these guys have like black and white trimmed robes and
hoods and such with these like fur mantles and a lot of it just looks
like, you know, winter gear that anyone in town will have, but
they do have as they're moving and fighting. Some you see some little symbology,
some emblems on them that is common to all of these guys who are
moving casting spells. Two of them with less elaborate get ups, rush forward,
knives in hand, charging at Farah. One of them is close enough
to reach you, the other one is just out of range to get to
you. This turn, he is going to take a slash at you with
a dagger. Okay, Fairy, your armor is four. He rolls a
natural twelve. Well what yeah, yeah, so there's that. Uh he
is going to So he used one movement to get to you. He's going
to do his second attack. He is going to do three plus Because of
the crypt the DM does get to roll extra damage when he chrits. Three
plus one plus one is five slashing damage to Farah. So what's funny about
Parah, I know exactly what just happened is that she doesn't mind slashing damage.
So this guy comes in slashes across your back with this like little short
sword type dagger kind of in between size medium. I'm sorry. Wow,
I said a lot of words. Just there, slashes across your back with
this little dagger blade. It's hard because daggers today are smaller, but daggers
at medieval times were closer to short. But shorts is a mechanically different thing.
Ye slashes across you, draws a welt of blood up from your shoulder
that immediately diffuses out into the mist, thicking it around Farah as she gains
an additional blood token and around a bleeding. Excellent is there? Please tell
me, Please tell me that Sarah has one of those looks, like like
it was supposed to her, and she looks like she's in so much pleasure
right now, like like yeah, yeah, you see as the blood like
mists into her, the cloud that's going to start to form around her,
she's like it's it's akin to ecstasy, Like yeah, maybe not quite that
dramatic, but it's like she lifts up because she was like running, you
know, and she like reacts to it a little bit. Her shoulders come
back because she feels it, and it's she like looks over her shoulder and
it's a smirk like mm hmm. This is not something that you want to
necessarily do. I thought the tailplay was I was gonna say, I thought
the tailplay was gonna be the weirdest thing that happened these episodes. But I
was gonna say, it sounds very similar to like when a chiropractor pops you,
you know, And yeah, I was thinking of there was this video
from a few years ago of this woman who was getting tased, and she
clearly liked it. I know, the one, you know, I had
Red Free. Yeah, it's Chat's turn. It's Are there any of the
Ruad figures that are within like striking distance of me right now, like physically
with my hammers, you are at the threshold of the building kind of heading
into it. The one that was bitten by the zombie would be like immediately
right next to you. I'm not even going to make you use movement to
get to him. And then the one that fell absolutely blood fucked is like
ten feet past him. But they're all, yeah, the zombie guy is
like barely hanging on right next to you. So zombie guy, I'm still
sustaining my dance, by the way, So first of all, start of
round two, gain another dance counter, and go ahead and do your sustaining
costs and your regeneration. So it's a funny thing about that dance is that
it costs five mana to activate, but it only takes two stamina to maintain.
Yes, so I am down to four stamina for my six to sustain
it. Yes, go ahead and tell us what class jet is. Primarily
Jet is primary class Harlequin class. Yes, so I am going to sustain
that with the cost of the two stamina so that my my magic users can
do magic things. But I am gonna go ahead and use both of my
actions to dual hammer because I got the two hammers. I'm just gonna like
incorporate the attack into the dance. Sure, yeah, I just kind of
like hammer into his head. You're gonna do a two weapon attack two weapon
attack, okay, So small weapons can be dual wielded without penalty. Dual
wielding. You take an attack action, make two attack rolls, one for
each weapon, determine hits and damage accordingly, and decide what order the weapons
are swinging if they're different, but they're not, so you get effectively two
attacks for one action on this. Okay, So I'm gonna go ahead and
roll it is D twelve plus two for my Mic, it's up thirteen for
the first one, and that is a nine for the second one. Okay,
both of those will hit to the zombiefide zombie bit guy who is not
holding on a lot. That's two one D six per hammer, so two
of them it is a five. It is a six that will kill that
guy. Describe how to take this dude out. So in mid form maintaining
see the guy he's down, he offiscerates the zombie and he thinks he's got
that split second of be like, Okay, I'm gonna I'm gonna be fine,
and it goes right into his face and it just crushes it inside.
I think Skink and Farah. You noticed that this like resonant tone that has
been like just maintaining from the hammers stays constant E's even as he cleaves through
this guy. Uh. That was one action from Jack. If you want
to move up to be engaged with anyone else, that's another action, or
you can activate a different ability. I will move where so where are the
guy who shot the zombie is ten feet in front of you. Pharah has
run past him and the stabby guys are chasing her. I will run towards
Oh, I will make sure that I'm in the building, but I'm not
engaging quite yet, so I'm gonna go say what tene Okay, do you
wanna you don't want to engage, You're gonna vector kind of off to the
side to avoid the the other mage in front of you. Yes, that's
actually perfect. Yes, okay, so you're gonna run kind of towards the
door inside the building. Perfect killed just a dancing guy. Okay, yeah,
dancing guy. You have killed one of the mages. His buddy,
who is kind of in the back of the room, is going to attempt
this is actually not going to be directed at you guys. Yeah, okay.
So one of the other mages in the back of the room calls out
this like arcane word, smacks his hands together, and throws off a scatterburst
that is just this scattering of magical modes of energy blasting into a cone across
the room. And he's gonna do one of two of those just and first
one blows a bunch of tables apart, doesn't do anything. Second one,
if you hear a yell as Arilla comes out of a stealth invisibility and hits
the floor. Hm, skink, that is your turn. It's gonna die.
So I was at the furthest away because I was in my little shadow,
I you know, was controlling my zombie from Afar. But I saw
the two starting to go after Pharaoh, So I want to move not all
the way close to them because I like to do all my damage from like
a little distance. But I'm gonna go towards Farah and cast decay that has
a range of thirty feet. So yeah, if you move into the building,
you're within range of all the guys kind of right in that little moot
there. Yeah. So I'm just I'm still like as close to the wall
as I can be within, you know, and still under my shadow.
And then I'm gonna cassiicade. Uh So I have to Now I have the
bonus from from the dance right plus two to this attack, all right,
So I have to make a spell attack against a creature I can see on
a hit in flight twenty four infernal damage. So wait, so I just
roll the d twelve plus my own fortitude plus the two that he gave me.
Correct, Okay, okay, half man Matt, It's just just all
it is. It's all it is. Okay, let's three, so it's
gonna be an eight. Eight will hit Are you going for the guy who
killed your zombie? Here's a guy. I'm going for the guy who cut
Farah Roger. That eight will hit him for sure. Uh, let me
ask did you upcast this at all? Are you just casting it at the
base level? So one one mana is base, every two mana additional you
add another one infernal damage. Uh, then I'm gonna I'm gonna knock it
up to like three. Skink is rolling damage with de kay it's four four
damage. And remind me you attacked the guy who stabbed stabbed. Okay.
He goes from looking great to looking pretty messed up pretty fast, pretty necrotic.
Okay, So that was two actions from Skink. You moved, you
cast a spell. Ye, we are going to move on to the extremely
bloody mage. He has kind of turned aim at Farah and cast cryo lance.
All creatures in a forty five foot straight line from the mage must make
a fortitude check target of eight counter spell. Yes, the counterspell cost is
one D six. It's randomized for monster stats. So how much do you
want to bid? I've rolled tell you. It has to be a mana,
doesn't it. Yeah, I don't have any MANA. Have any MANA
left everyone else, so everyone else is within range. Well, so two
things you can spend blood tokens in place of man That is an option,
but I will say the other two are within sight could counter if anyone wants
to spend the reaction on this. You see this guy calling up this big
column of ice magic aimed right at Fara's back. I do have five manner
three two, I'm gonna use it, and Jet said it first. We're
gonna pop off Jet. How much do you want to bid? I want
to bet five. Five beats his role of two. So this guy calls
up this column of ice, throws it, and Jet just exactly and this
the whole, like your vision vibrates a little bit as this magic thrum and
this spell. You see it just kind of disintegrate as it leaves his hands.
He's gonna turn around and throw a We're gonna say he throws a mage
bolt at as a retaliation. Can I use my reaction now with two blood
tokens? Absolutely? How much do you want to counter for you have two?
So you bid too with a five he fires this mage bolt off.
You try and throw a countering magic back, but it slips past. Uh.
That is going to be an attack role on jets. Would like to
use my minor class, the Warrior class with reflexes, because I have just
enough stamina to read it a reaction. It is a reaction. You've already
used your reaction. Oh you only get one? That would have been very
cool. My friend he rolled a natural twelve. Oh he a little bit.
Luckily, mage bolt is not a massive hit. I don't know if
he keeps rolling with that. Okay, so you're going to take four ether
damage on your chart for it is ether damage, which is let's hear ether
ether. Here we go one, two, three, four. Okay,
that's not too bad if you don't hit any weird milestones or anything on that
No, the milestones eight for some reason. Okay, perfect, because if
I put it in the first five for a lot of the damage, low
level fights become bloodbaths. Okay. And also I like being able to hit
you for more dice. Okay. That is two reactions from the blast mage
adept farah eurerope right I my uh mana resets correct. Yes, So start
of your turn. Regenerate your mana and stamina anything you've spent up to your
regeneration amount, and it works. I do I have no uh blood tokens
left right, They don't read out. No, yeah, you use those
for the counter. Okay. And at this point I am going to I
have the person still trying to attack me. Correct looking pretty good. You've
got a guy slashing at you. You've got the guy who tried to freeze
you, who's like ten feet behind you at this point. You've got another
stabby dude coming up behind the first one right after you here, Okay,
three dudes right next to you. Okay, I'm going to conjure weapon beautiful,
Yes, so for I'm going to conjure a melee weapon, just a
small one. It's actually going to be a whip and it's going to be
made of blood with a tip that is concentrated iron from the blood. Yes,
So Parah whips around and this blood whip just sneaks out and was that?
So that's an action? What's your next move? So my next move
is to attack the second person coming in with a knife. Okay. The
other one is necrotic right now, or has nicrotic damage. So I'm gonna
go. Yeah, he's been hit pretty pretty okay, So I'm gonna roll
to attack the other stabby guy. And it is a D twelve to hit.
What the heck? It's a one plus your whip I believe is might
in double check whip, it doesn't specify. Yeah, so it's might because
it's a melee weapon. Okay, so that it would be a four.
A four hits an armor class of four. These are not advanced monsters,
got it? Got it? Okay? Great? In that case, it
is a one D ten had damage. Yeah, what's so weird? It
is slashing. It is two E WORL to choose. It's gonna be one
slashing damage, one slashing damage to him. Yeah. I feel like she
is like she's shown that she benefits from being from bleeding to some extent.
Might hurt, but she benefits from it. This is almost like a warning
shot, like don't come at me. Yeah, go ahead, make a
mite check for me. We're gonna try and intimidate this. I love,
I love that. Does that count as an action? And do I have
enough? No? I'm calling I'm calling for it. That's uh. See
if the warning shot was effected. That is a eleven plus three. It
is a fourteen on an eight message received. Okay, okay, that is
Farah. It is now the knife guy's turn. Knife Guy number two is
gonna take the warning shot for a warning shot, turn and go after jet
as he Pharah, you already used your reaction to try and counter this round,
so you're not gonna get an attack of opportunity. So he moves away
from the range of your whip. There's that he comes in. He's going
to slash at Jet so move slash. Those are his moves, his actions.
Knife slash does a well, I know it, twelve hits. It
was a ten plus two, not a natural one knife on four plus one
four slashing damage for jet Ah deck are you bleeding at all? Not yet?
Okay, not yet, Roger that okay, okay, it's every five
apparently for yes, yes slashing. The guy who is already in melee combat
with you, Farah, did not get the message. He's going to go
for it again. Ten plus two is going to hit. Yeah, that's
going to be three slashing damage. Second attack eleven plus two is going to
hit let's see you two more slashing damage. So I have acquired two more
bleeding do you get two more blood tokens that also ticks off. Remember at
the start of your turn, and if you didn't do it last time,
do it now. Bleeding It goes away at the start of your turn.
One round of it, and you take an additional slashing damage at nine.
So I have an affliction. Okay, so go ahead and roll an affliction
for us. I got an affliction dis turn with these two pieces of damage,
and I roll a D eight D eight plus zero. Because you don't
currently have any five rattled minor spell attack roles suffer a negative one D four
penalty to hit. I am rapping right now. You are rattled. Para
is rattled. That is the Ruffians turn. We go back to the top
jet. You're up at the start of initiative. Here you hear Brunskull shout
something. Turn and see a flash of light as he throws this. You
know, he drops his veil. He is hiding in the corner. He
was trying to like shield a. Really, you see this dagger that is
glowing is made of like moonlight, smacks into the back of the guy who
is attacking you, and he just bursts into like motes of light and famishes.
What wild Thanks dad, Jet, good to see you jet over here
working on it. A Realia is staggers to her feet and limps over to
Brunschul. She is clearly hurt. Okay, so the guy, yeah,
the guy that was coming at me is dead now right, Yes, Okay,
how many more people are there? Let's see, we've got got their
tank goal. Yeah, We've got bloody blast Mage who is kind of on
his last legs. Okay, we've got Novice number one two, the guy
who was fighting you is dead. The guy, and then Stabby McGee who
was fighting Farah. So I left all of them pretty bad shape. Okay,
I am going to disengage from my dance and then I'm going to run
over to Farah and just okay, basically Superman punched but with a hammer lovely
right into the back of his skull. You're still yielding to take two shots?
Hell yeah, love it. That's going to be a nine, and
that's that's that's going to be a twelve. Dirty twelve though, dirty twelve.
Okay, two hits, yep, wielding is good, y'all. That's
a five and that's a four. Yeah. Describe how you kill Stabs McGee
over here as he's knife fighting Pharaoh, So get hit with the ether damage.
I'm about to like, ah shit, is this how I die?
And then I just see him and then we have the interaction with with brun
skull and I go, I'm working on it. I just lunge into the
back of this guy's skull and just crack down like full body into the back
of his skull and just burst his head. This guy goes down in a
heap. That is Jet's turn that brings us to the knife guys are dead,
Uh last Maje Novice number two. This is the guy who winged Aurelia.
Uh is going to launch a mage bolt at her. She counters that's
one action from him. At the reaction for Realia, he is going to
turn and throw another one at broom School. We are going to roll for
that. Broom School is rolling much higher than this guy is. It's a
nine versus a three. Broom School counters that with his reaction. This guy
is effectively neutralized for this turn that brings us to Skink Europe. So who's
left there is the extremely bloody advanced mage, the guy who is magically dueling
with Aurelia and broom School and that's it. I was gonna So So the
one who is one of them closer to me, Yeah, the guy who
Parah bloodied to Helen back has just been standing in the hole this whole time,
like being screwed every time he tries to do something cool. Then and
he looks like he's already pretty badly. He's extremely hurt. Yeah, I
think I'm gonna run out of my Oh no, maybe it's even cooler to
stay in the shadow. I'm just like, as I move, just this
little like pool of darkness comes towards him, and I'm gonna use maw of
darkness. Jesus, I'm just going. So I'm I like run up to
him and then leap onto him and then I will read from I'll read from
here. Horrible twisted fangs pierce the veil of reality around the target and attempt
to maul it. So that's what I'm doing, Uh, I mean I
have to wait a save for who I was for him, I believe.
Yeah, it's not a spell at right. Yeah. So when D six
Eldridge damage on a hit, So so you roll a hit, I have
to target. You can touch. Yeah, it's a spell attack okay,
yeah, yeah, yeah, So that will be one D twelve plus your
cleverness to hit him because it's a shadow age spell twelve three, it's gonna
be six six hits a mage with an armor of five. Also, fun
fact, you stacked up some shadow age synergy here because by moving closer to
him and maintaining your darkness, this ability is going to deal damage to a
target that is in darkness, which will trigger additional nonsense because shadow mages have
an effect called horror when they do things to creatures in particularly scary ways.
So go ahead and roll your damage, all right. So so if it's
more, then I'm rolling two. Is that right? No, You're gonna
roll one six plus one DY four damage and he is going to make a
check against your spell save all right. So if he lives, which it
may not matter. So there's my six plus maybe four, it's gonna that's
gonna be a six total six total lovely. He is gonna make a check
what is your spell save for shadow made? It should be on the bottom
left of your sheet. Uh, it's five five okay, So he's got
to beat a five on a willpower check. Let's see how will powery this
guy is. He's a two. He's got a decent willpower, so he
might all right. He does beat the check, so he's not frightened,
but he is effectively got erry. He's got one health left. I'm like
debating with myself whether or not to be like fudgy about it and be like
he dies. But no, he's got one health left. It's fine,
he's still love. Okay, so that's Skink's turn. But also I do
want to point out you did something very strategic there by moving the darkness up
to him to cast that spell. Not only did you trigger the horror effect.
He's blind now cool, which is real bad for a mage. Blinded
can't see there you go it is this is this works out really well.
Actually it is now his turn. Wow, he is blinded by darkness that
is trying to eat him. He is going to run, Skink, you
have an attack of opportunity. You can choose to do. Is your reaction?
Yeah, if you would like to make an attack with your dagger or
yeah, I was gonna say, yeah, I like leapt onto him with
the darkness, and now all I gotta do is just he's dead so roll
one D twelve plus. Whatever weapon you're using is either MIT or precision depending.
I think a dagger is either one dagger. I've got it right here.
I don't know, I don't know anything. I'm a baby one.
It's our first combat. This is fine, this is expected, this is
where we're supposed to be. Dagger is a precise weapon, which means you
can use either your precision or your MITE. So whichever one is higher,
twelve plus twelve plus that okay? Kay? Cool? Actually what is seen?
What is your precision? I'm just curious too. It's two? Okay,
so thirteen? Did you roll an actial? But no, because it's
eleven plus two doesn't matter, go ahead and roll your damage, just just
for fun. How bad do you murder him? Right? It's a three?
Nice? Yeah? So he's he's running in the darkness. The darkness
is eating him, and then this little hand just comes around and slits his
this bulb of darkness tackles him. Horrible noises, dead body. That's what
everyone else. I need the soundtrack. I need the soundtrack. So Skate
kills him on his turn. Nice, of course he'd run. What the
fuck else do you do? Yeah, that's what a normal person does.
I'm getting my ass beat. That was the extreme bloody guy. Farah fucked
up. The Ruffians are dead. Farah, it is your turn. There
was one novice mage left was dueling with Bruinschuol and Arilla off behind you.
So Farah doesn't do well being rattled, especially from slashing damage because like she
likes blood, but she has this affliction, right, it's gonna trigger her
berserk, right, because it says at the start of my turn, right,
yep, there it is. So I'm gonna choose a number. It
like triggers berserking in her, and this is not good. So it's like
it's like you you see her. She goes white for a second because she's
losing blood, and then it's like a crimson wave over her face. Is
her blood pressure picks back up and anger. So before she was gleeful because
hey, she's being armed with her favorite weapon essentially, and now she's mad.
And I get to choose a number between zero and my character level,
which is just one, so it's gonna be one for an out. But
until the start of my next turn, any damage ideal against to target within
five feet of me is increased by that amount, and attack rolls made against
me also gain a two hip bonus equal to the same amount, So that
is key with Berserker. Usually the damage that I do or it's a lot
of wagering against yourself essentially. And next she is going to experience bloodlust or
use bloodlust, which is a spell. It takes for mana for her to
activate it. So long as I am sustaining this spell, my spit speed
increases by five feet for every blood token I have, so I have an
extra ten feet of movement. I don't even know if I need that at
this point, do I? But you're going full on anime, which,
by the way, if there's not a fucking sick ass anime original soundtrack for
this moment, Chris, you failed, you failed, and I'll get on
sound boards. She so, yeah, I think I think it's gonna like
She's just full frottle like. So it happens, and then she has a
Scythe is that that's how we say it? Right? I have a sickle.
I'm sorry, I have a sickle, and tweety does it cost me?
I'm sorry You guys viewers out there, you know that this is my
husband who greated the game. Definitely. We just all call him sweetie.
Yeah, I think actually related to everyone on the stream in ways that might
surprise you. It's so sweetie. Does it cost me an action to pull
my sickle off of my back? No, that is equipped to you.
It's one of your equip weapons. So you're it's you're it's considered in the
mix. So I whip out my sickle. I'm running full force at this
last mage, and I'm going to attack with Roger that. Uh so we're
gonna say, I'm going to narrate that we're doing theater of the mind.
Things are a little bit squidgy. This guy was in the mix between the
knife guys, you Gorilla, Brunskul, et cetera. I am, especially
with the blood Less active, I'm not gonna call that. It's going to
take an additional action for you to move to him because he's kind of right
there, and also you have a whip that has the reach to get him
anyways, So we're just gonna narrate that's that's fair game in this chaotic situation.
Also, Reckon, I was thinking the blood I see he was further
away from me. I don't know why so I just have to do the
bloodlust. Well, so if you trigger the blood lust and move, that's
two actions. I believe unless blood lust is free, it's not. That's
why I maybe shouldn't do it. I'm just gonna say that he's close enough
for you to like be on him at this point, Okay, because like
this is a little weeny guy, and it's fine if we kind of fudge
the last dude in the in the fight here, it's not going to change
the outcome. Okay, So I can roll to attack. Yeah, I
hit him. It's funny because this doesn't even cast them cause that much damage.
Well, you also have the whip out so you can dual wheeld.
I'm doing that at all, right, and my attack rolls are plus my
right, correct? Yes, So I just rolled an eleven plus three with
the sickle that'll hit and a ten plus three with the whip that'll also hit
roll both damage. So the sickle is just one damage, that's all.
Yeah, The sickle is flat one damage. The key with sickles is if
you create you can trip people, which is nice. Right, It is
slashing? Does he he didn't have any slashing damage before? Right? No?
Okay, and then the you will Now then the whip is one D
ten halved and I'm six, So he now has three slashing on top of
the one. Right, Okay, so this is he's a novice mage he
is, so you hit both times absolutely Faarah charged and just this whirlwind of
fucking blood weapons coming at this guy. Uh, this is a weenie on
the field. He is surrounded now by you guys, all of his dead
friends, and Bruin Skull, who is going to go next. At this
point, there is no world in which this guy survives. So what I'm
gonna say is, how do you guys want to finish the fight? Fair
game? Oh well, I mean Farah just is a at this point like
enraged, but she's not. Actually, she doesn't do a ton of damage
at this point, so I don't think it would be her that finished him
off unless I used last right next, but I am not in the I'm
low on that, like I'm I would be. Yeah, Farah has torn
into this guy and just set him up to be finished off by whoever wants
to take the shot. At this point, I'm next in the turn order,
right, Yeah, yes, Bruns school doesn't kill him. So if
you want to do something, you take the shot. Okay, brun school
is not going to do anything. You see him charging up another one of
those moonlight daggers that's going to explode him. So I wait, Bruncekll is
doing it. Brunce call is readying an attack if you don't take the initiative.
Let me let me ask one more thing. What is the the what
is the h is the ruffian or zoom age? He's a made right?
This guy's a mage. What is he doing as a reaction to everything that's
happening to him? Uh? Real talk. This is a novice mage who
just watched a bunch of guys who should have been way better at this.
The best guy in this room got into a fight with an elf, blew
up a wall, and she put his head through the fucking floor. Right,
Okay, so this dude is shitting himself cool as a crazy metal woman
tears him apart. I would like to non lethally hook his neck and throw
him down to the ground. Make a crapple. Check my spot that that
felt like a grapple plus what miight thirteen six to farah. You tear into
this guy as he turns and is like trying to do something. Jet hooks
him, body slams him and just has him in a fucking arm bar as
bruns Will stands over him with one of those glowing like light daggers. I
lean into him and I say, it is your best interest to surrender.
Yeah, I surrender. Farah is Farah is in the meantime, like over
top of him, standing over top of him, like yeah, and like
wild looking her eyes. And there's just this like little shadow next to you.
Guys, this shadow moves into the room. You say, Pip comes
down from the rafters where he's been watching and lands in the shadow. Is
this little beak like sticking at the top of it. Yeah. Brunskull is
standing there with a glowing dagger looking down at the sky. You see.
There's a little moment where he like twitches towards Pharah like are you fucking all
right? Just without looking away from his target Jet, Are you well?
I am well, I am coherent. Let us give him the opportunity for
life, just making sure we'll talk later. You who are you my name?
Sir? Oh? Yeah? No, Brinscholl takes prisoners. He's fine,
good, good, good good. Yeah. Brincechol is not like a
brutal old bastard. He's just you know, yeah, I mean I they
are right. My name is rich. I don't I don't want to die.
Very few of us do. He kind of reller, are you fine?
She's like, I'm hurt, but I can walk. Lee's see to
the other patrons as possible, and he starts kind of jumping forward. A
moment here, Brunschul helps you tie this guy up effectively, starts coordinating a
response as a Stelle quick and the town guard show up. A moment later.
Roland has survived. He's got a mangled leg. A bunch of people
in here are hurt badly but might live. Might not. A few people
ran out of the tavern as soon as things started popping off. Brunschool starts
kind of rounding up the immediate response. As a Stelle shows up and starts
sorting things out. Bruinskul pulls you guys off into like one of the back
rooms. You two are welcome to come if you want. Jat he's definitely
bringing you Arilla and the prisoner. Are you tube joining him? No,
I want to find the elf lady. Okay, so skink stays in the
main room. So like, as this is happening, Sarah, like you
see her visibly like shudder, and she loses the berserking and she's going to
cast clot for for Mana, And I'll spend a blood token on this and
that removes six I'd roll a D four H and that removes one round of
bleeding for me, and then I remove six additional rounds of bleeding. Yes,
so, uh, Farah patches herself up at the end of combat as
she comes out of her berserk their skink what you got? Uh so,
I think I'm also I dropped the shadow so now I am visible. And
then I just have a question about flesh craft as a spell. It says
you heal non infernal damage that the future suffered, but then it says it
also inflicts infernal damage. So yes, so you're replacing. So if someone's
got let me look up these actual specifics here. But basically you're trading a
small amount of infernal damage for a larger amount of other damage. So you're,
yeah, like you can remove like ten slashing damage and inflict a little
bit of infernal damage to replace it. So it's a it's an imperfect healing,
Okay, and it keeps somebody from getting an affliction, right, exactly,
all right, Chris, do I remove my Yeah, so you don't
remove the affliction, Okay, yet you remove anything that is not affliction though,
yes. So as we come out of combat here, you guys kind
of patch yourselves up Farah using klot to get rid of those last few rounds
of bleeding so you don't take more damage and get a new affliction. We're
going to end initiative. At the end of initiative, all of your damage
and conditions like bleeding go away. Afflictions stick around, So Farah is going
to be rattled until she can do something about it. Get healed, get
along, like significant rest in which can be more than one day. Yeah,
kind of get treatment. There's a couple of different ways to solve that
that we can get into in a moment, but let's play out the rest
of this scene for now. Yeah. So you said that they that Bruce,
Gool and RelA are approaching me, Bruce School and Arilla as like a
Stelle in the town. Watch show up. Bruce School is going to be
like, we need to make ourselves scarce. You two are welcome to We
appreciate your help. But he is going to move. Uh. You see
he does a trick that you've seen before. Yeah, he steps into like
a broom closet and does a little illusion looks like part of the wall.
Okay, I I hold a moment, and Gorilla, I think, is
bear with me, and I'm just I'm just kind of like holding my hammers
and like just looking at them, and I look at a real learn and
just go. You say it gets easier, and I put them away Jat,
I don't. I'm not going to tell you things get easier. I'm
going to tell you you get better at dealing with them, because I think
that's more true. I suppose it is. And I just head towards where
the illusion is. Yeah, and she's following it, but she she does
kind of linger for a second and looks over to Skink. Oh. She
fishes around in her pack. Fish nice Uh hosses something into the air,
a little shiny thing, and jumps up and snags it. Kiv takes it,
Yes, and he hops down and like hands it to you and it's
just a little like shiny piece of like Micah, and I think you put
together like Oh, she just knew the bird would go for this. Yeah.
She kind of waves and disappears into the illusory wall. Brunskuld dragged the
prisoner in with him. What are you two doing, my ladies, I'm
going to go for Roland to try to help him. Okay, I want
to check in on him. Skink. You said you were investigating the elf.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, Okay, Roland will resolve first. Roland
has dragged himself into the corner. It's fair good to see again. Yeah,
he's this big like orc. Just he's like gritting learning his teeth and
just kind of been a minute since anyone blew me up. And what kind
of damage do I see on him right now? He's burned pretty severely on
his leg. I think you can assess pretty quickly that, like he's not
in life threatening danger, but he needs medical attention. He's hurt. Okay,
is there medical attention coming? Or do I need to help him find
it? You can ask him and he'll tell you that, like if the
is the danger gone? And you see what he was crawling towards was actually
like behind the bar, a little strong box that has been blasted a kind
of a skew in the fight. There is a brace like a bandolier of
flintlock pistols in there, nice that he was crawling towards. And he's like,
are there more of them? Not as far as I know, And
Estell's here now he just goes he's like leaning on the just kind of like
propping himself up like army cross style. He just punches his fist through the
wall just like and this is not like a dry wall building. This like
he just punched straight through a couple of boards. Good, that's great,
I will be okay. I appreciate the time, the assistance. I'm sorry,
this isn't my specialty of injury for healing. I would help you otherwise,
but I will direct healers to you as soon as I can. You
see he kind of sits up, grabs his shin that is like not straight,
and just goes and like snaps it back and goes, I'm good d
right, right right Land? Roland didn't know he's used to be a bartender,
right yeah, whoa, I'm not calling. I'm gonna then, uh
go over to Skink. I was gonna say, Skink, are you actively
like digging in the pile the the elf got buried under rubble. Yeah yeah,
yeah, then I'm like I'm trying to take a part of the debris
to uncover uh this elf, this mysterious elf who's like for some reason,
everybody is dying in the same vicinity as this. Help as you're digging through
it, you move, you know, you make a make a mite check
for me. Actually, let's do that, and Farah, if you would
like to add to this as well, we're going to add you know,
let's add them together. It's an eight for me. Eight, it's an
eleven for me. Beautiful, so grouped together. Yeah, on nineteen,
I think there's like, listen, mite is any kind of physicality, right,
So, like there's physically moving a ton of weight, and then there's
Goblin throwing a ton of stuff out of the way. Yeah. Yeah,
she's like dislodging all this rubble, and Farah kind of like moves a big
rafter and as soon as you guys kind of like clear a little bit of
space for like there's some give in the pile you see in the middle of
it, and a bunch of like rubble kind of like shifts and balls and
slides out of the way, and lady Sive stands up in the middle of
it and just we got your letter good. I wanted to talk to you.
We're gonna end that scene for you guys right there. We're gonna go
over to wrap up jat Brunschool and Arilla in the illusory back room with their
prisoner before we cut out. Here, Jack, you are standing in a
broom closet effectively, and you see Bruneskull take his hood down and the image
of an old man disappears, and you see the wizomed guy in that you
know much better. Uh, remind me what kind of guy in Brunce School
was a mountain He is a mountain guy in and I affectionately call him as
a hard ass because it's a joke because it's literally a hard ass, but
he's also hard. He just goes jet. I appreciate your curiosities. I
do. I was even willing to accept that you went in advance of the
rest of the party out of zeal for the job. But as I've been
attempting to impress on Arilla here, she just kind of you see that,
like she's gotten in trouble a couple of times this week probably, and she's
kind of got that look of like I fucked up, yet I really fucked
up. Things are starting to happen. It is not safe for us here
to operate independently. I don't wish to encroach on your sense of curiosity and
wonder and excitement. I simply wish that you would exhibit a slight amount of
caution. That's all this. Man. Do you recognize the robes? I
recognize the robes. He's a scrivener jet. I know he's a scrivener.
The spider is active. I know the spider is active. God damn it.
It's all about this shit, old man. I listen, I just
wanted a fucking just a couple of days because I've been locked in a fucking
monastery for all my fucking life. You goddamn kidnappers thought I could just have
a couple of drinks and dinners here and there. But I guess fucking knots
roll and inside uh cleverness. It was almost the Mac twelve that's gonna be
fifteen. You see that like he you've know Brunskull for a while. Yeah,
obviously he looks hurt Brunskull, but like he is attempting to project what
he thinks he's supposed to right now. But I think in this moment and
the heat coming off the heat of battle and everything, you clock, that
Brunskull fucking gets it, like he doesn't want this for you, and he's
just like that's where he's at, and you see he kind of just pinches
his brow and he's like, I you should have that. You should if
I'm supposed to be this fucking chosen one that you all fucking believe so fucking
it's then why why does it hurt when I kill somebody? Yeah? Why
does it fucking still hurt? Asshole? Divine purpose? Here I am.
That's not ever supposed to be your job, and yet I'm doing it.
I saw it seemed to fucking do I listen? I understand, I do,
I do. I get it. And Arella is just like we're in
a room with a bad guy, the walls not sound proof. I'm just
saying, love you guys, Love you guys. Yeah, and Brunschool just
goes, I yeah, I hear you. I get it. This shouldn't
have happened. It is ultimately my responsibility that this happened. And I'm sorry
that you went through that. You know, I hear that a lot.
I heard a lot, and I will say, to your credit, old
man, it means a little bit more coming from you. I will give
you that. But and you're a little fucking tired of this. If I
had a better way, i'd use it. Yeah, it's easier, it's
all years. Oh well, now you want to it, doesn't it?
Fucking you've never heard him curse before? No, I will say that actually
catches me a little off guard. If there were Can we go home?
I don't know, can we or do we have to be on a leash
longer? It just kind of I dismissed myself from the conversation. I don't
even want to say anything else. He just holds his hand up and he
goes I actually think we should have a conversation about that, because you are
right, but let's not do it in a broom closet. He pulls out
a scroll that you recognize as a scroll of recall. Yes, I do
think we should talk to this fellow here. We'll get into it. And
he opens the scroll and the magic starts to swirl, and Hugh Arilla,
the Scrivener and Broom School vanish from the broom closet. That is where we
will end this episode of The Knick's Archive. I have been joined this evening
by missus farah Uh Maddie playing for by everybody, the lovely Skink Marissa Montero
sign it out. Our first ever guest star Jet Jet support Scott Corgan loganof
and C. D. Corgan. I have been to everybody else. If
you're enjoying your life and have a good night or day or whatever, I
always say good night because it's night when we record. Shut up, I'm
leaving. No, you got to do that. You gotta do the thing.
It's wherever you are in your day, wherever you are in your day.
By can that just be the official sign off? Actually,