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Broken Lords. Thank you now that you are free in the water and not
like being crushed. Yeah, you feel extreme painting, you're nay. And
your left arm you can move it, but not well, we're gonna take
your turn right now. Cool, just because you got ejected. So the
first thing I'm gonna need from you is a discipline test. Difficulty is Oh
my god, you have three wounds, don't you. We're gonna call it
a difficulty three discipline test. Yeah. Sure, and all the fortune you
need, bro, I have done. Is there any momentum the pool?
I'm sorry, I spend all the momentum. It's the beginning of the session.
You have your you have your fortune back. Oh okay, okay,
sure, I guess I'll spend a fortune and what I meant to say,
spend all the momentum you need. But how much do we have? Have?
Work four? Right now? Can I spend two? You can,
in fact spend up to three. I'll spend two. So yeah, you
will roll four and you already have one success. Nice, look get the
technically, I think I have two six essence because I have right as you
focus in discipline, right, yeah, five five successes on this five successes?
All right. What I recommend you do is you take those two extra
successes and use them to add to the magnitude of your success. Sure,
all right, So what this is going to mean is you are able to
knuckle down and you know right now you need to get air and you need
to get out of the water, and you can worry about your injuries latest.
So for the rest of the scene, unless you take another wound,
you are going to be able to act as if you were not wounded,
which is very good for you because your movement would be severely restricted. At
this point. I love being severely restricted. I could put you back in
the fish then tie me up. Cat Mommy, go and dive in one
more time. I just want to go to the land, bro, I
just wanted to swim moist catfish, Gord diver for nothing. Oh my god,
catfish, and it's time to dive back. My forehead is firmly nestled
in my palm right now. I need everybody to understand this. Use all
of your momentum. You get back to the surface, you take a breath,
you almost pass out because you imagine one or more of your ribs are
cracked. Yeah, you start swimming like there's no tomorrow to make it towards
land, and you're able to close about half the remaining distance. Well,
hang on, how close is he to myself or cull? Because I know
I at least had like, oh he got he got ejected. He is
not super close to you guys anymore. Oh he's he's gone. Okay,
he's yeah. Then he got torpedoed out of that fish's mouth. Yeah,
he flew like a free bird, the free Thornton diver. Wouldn't you like
to know how free this thorn diver is? Almost super free? Is literally
the fourth of July so very free right now, it's almost super incredibly free.
I'm not going to say that if you had stayed inside of that fish
it was guaranteed death. But it was guaranteed death. So honestly, this
is the this is the lengths you have to go to get your fucking pepperonis
these days. I I've got sixteen right now, dog, I'm all set.
Yeah. Oh, the mere existence of this fish added three to my
pool. I'm good, all right, So who wants to go next?
Favorite? Sounded like you had some ideas. What the heck am I even
seeing at this point? Because I know what I believe. I just witnessed
his first octamer disappeared, and then Ricardo went after him. There would have
been like a few tense moments of like dead quiet and stillness as you guys
are still like paddling towards the shore, and an octamer breached the surface screaming,
probably a good twenty feet away from where he went under, and Ricardo
still don't Yeah, Ricardo is yes, Yes, I'm currently still in underneath.
Yes. Do I see Ricardo at all? Or is it is it
too murky? Like what's going on? It's too murky to see Ricardo?
Especially he's right next to the fish, right Now, at best you would
be able to see where the fish is. I mean, I know he's
screamed to get to the shore, but that just redoubles my efforts to help
instead of going to the shore. Well, you don't have a weapon that
can hurt something underwater, yes, do I know that? Yes? Yes,
you know that. Yeah. No, And it's just if you're as
world weary as you say you are, then you would absolutely know that a
club underwater does not work. So hot. Yeah, never mind a core
or stuff huh sure. Yeah, the things that are like spears and harpoons
and other piercing weapons that you thrust. Yeah, knives, you could.
A sword that's pointed at the tip would work, right, shark teeth so
like a long sword would work. A scimitar would not so work. Yeah.
Um, then I guess I'm going to just see if I can get
to octamer that's I think. Yeah, that's the move. As you said,
he just popped out of the water screaming. So that sounds bad.
Oh yeah, and you have like a piece of floats on them that you're
using, right Yeah. Yes, that's why I was asking if he was
close to me, because yeah, you can get to him. He's making
his way towards the shore, so you can make progress towards the shore and
still get to him. Okay, I'm gonna help him, like put a
hand on that and then just kick as hard as I can just to get
his boat to the shore. All right. Would you like to make an
athletics check difficulty he will be too, all right, Yes, I would
like to make an athletics check. So we have a baby on board figuratively
a babythorn diver. So I'll invest a fortune point to get those two successes
right out the gate, and now we're all good. That's too momentum,
right, Would you like to take those two momentum and spend them on performing
your task faster? Absolutely? I would chug chugg check cheek right October because
he was able to like harness his grit and focus on the task. He's
kicking as hard as he can. You're kicking as hard as you can,
and you make it to the point where you can see muddy ground beneath your
feet. You're about twenty yards away from the shore. You can actually stand
up if you wanted to. I'm debating which way is going to be faster
at this point that would make it Col's turn, because I was your full
action economy just to get to where you are. Thank you. Cole's gonna
follow after with his rock acts ready and then just wait until thorn Diver is
within range to help him for sure. Otherwise, unburdened, Cull is able
to make it right over to where Phedra and Octamer are so he can help
get them to shore, which leaves us with the fish. Yeah and one,
Ricardo vega, what's good? So you have just thrust your spear into
this thing snout it like bucked back into the shaft of the spear flex and
then broke. The water becomes extra murky as like an almost slimy feeling.
Viscous blood flows out and it tangles and hurts your eyes a bit to keep
them open, but you definitely don't want to close them at this point.
Here. No, and this thing, its nose goes down and there is
a strong swirling of the currents Oh shit, okay, and you see a
big old tail come up and over and right for you. Goodbye, Ricardo
through my favorite character,